Carl Lee Perkins was born on April 9, 1932 in the small town of Ridgely, Tennessee (Larkin 4196). He grew up in a farming community so he lived the stressful life of a farmer early on in his life. When he was very young, around the age of five, he got his first real guitar. While on the farm there was a black migrant farmer by the name of Uncle John that taught him how to play rhythm and blues (Busnar 67). In 1953 Carl, his brother Jay and his other brother Clayton all formed a band that played hillbilly songs. Carl made the band special though, because he was

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