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Go Cat Go!: The Life and Times of Carl Perkins
One of the last living pioneers of rock, Carl Perkins is best known as the man who wrote "Blue Suede Shoes", the song that galvanized a generation of teenagers and redefined the honky-tonk music of his native South for the pop mainstream.
Carl Perkins was born in a three-room shack in Lake County, Tennessee, the son of a sharecropper whose family worked the cotton fields.
Life of carl perkins biography book
The stirring music of his black co-workers struck a responsive chord in the young Perkins, who learned to play guitar from a picker called Uncle John. Practicing to the music of the Grand Ole Opry on his father's radio, Carl realized that "country music needed the black man's rhythms".
When he finally formed a band with his brothers, Jay and Clayton, the "Carl Perkins beat" was born. But it was after Carl heard a Bill Monroe song on the radio in an uptempo rendition by a young singer named Elvis Presley that he realized he had to light out for Memphis to make his