
Review: Undersung rock hero Carl Perkins gets the spotlight in new biography
CARL PERKINS: The King of Rockabilly. By Jeff Apter. Citadel Press. 240 pages. $29. Carl Perkins, the future king of rockabilly music, was the son of sharecroppers. He and his brothers grew up picking cotton on a 400-acre plantation in Tiptonville, Tenn. …