Carl Perkins, the guitar-playing king of rockabilly music, and author of the genre’s high-stepping anthem, Blue Suede Shoes, died on Monday in a Jackson, Tenn., hospital of complications from a series ...
Rock and roll legend Carl Perkins died on Monday morning, January 19, at 10:30 a.m. of complications developed following a series of three strokes that he had suffered at the end of 1997. He was 65.