BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT) — Wayne Perkins, whose guitar playing took him from his home in Birmingham, Alabama to around the world, backing up some of the biggest artists in music, died Monday night. He ...
Few bands are as closely associated with the boom of Southern rock in the 1970s as Lynyrd Skynyrd. And few guitarists inspired as many subsequent Southern rock guitarists as Lynyrd Skynyrd’s own Gary ...
"Sweet Home Alabama" famously name-dropped Neil Young, but not over the track that the lyric would lead you to believe.
Downright terrifying. Throughout history, some of the most tragic and untimely deaths in music have come via plane crashes. Of course, you have your highest-profile deaths such as Buddy Holly, along ...
Wayne Perkins may not be a name that all modern music fans know, but he had a big impact on rock music as well as blues and ...
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Wayne Perkins, a journeyman guitarist who was a part of the Muscle Shoals house band and nearly joined the Rolling Stones in ...
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A quintessential Southern rock track.
After more than six decades, a landmark, family-owned Clay County restaurant known for its Southern fish camp fare and ...