CARL PERKINS: The King of Rockabilly ... He learned to play the guitar on another sharecropper’s porch, plucking an instrument that his father made him with a box, broom handle and two strings.
"CARL PERKINS: THE KING OF ROCKABILLY" by Jeff Apter (Citadel, 240 pages, $29). Carl Perkins is an unexpected choice of subject for the prolific musician biographer Jeff Apter, who lays out the ...
Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck played a huge part in developing the standard rock guitarist, but they had their influences before they started playing.
George Harrison was the archetypal lead guitarist. Like all great players ... Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt, Slim ...