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Weekly 150: Go, Cat, Go!

The Story of Carl Perkins

By Jason Martin
jmartin@mckenziebanner.com
Posted 1/24/23

After several weeks of doing some of the most interesting research I’ve done, I decided it was time to take a little more light-hearted approach this week. The story of Carl Perkins is one of a sharecropper’s son who made it to Memphis and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Much of what I’m sharing today comes from author Rose Clayton Phillips.

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