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About Me:: Blues Photographer and video guy as well.

You can see my work on youtube by typing in "KB4IUJ".

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At 10:32am on April 5, 2008, GW said…: I'm so sorry for guessing wrong about who Danny Lancaster is. I often don't know who's who, but I should not remark on people I don't know. I googled his name and felt obliged to post this comment. I did know one guy from Duck Hill......
"nevermind"

At 12:19am on March 20, 2008, billy jones said…: Hi KB4IUJ,
Thanks for adding me to your site.

Billy Jones
http://myspace.com/billyjonesbluez

At 7:41am on March 18, 2008, Blind Rat said…: Hi and welcome aboard.

Blind Rat

At 2:06am on March 4, 2008, GW said…: I think so, but I'm not sure. I haven't met DL, I don't think, unless it was before KB's first album.

I haven't seen Kenny in a while. He's an old friend, but not someone I run into much, except when he's playing nearby. I don't get many chances to hang out lately, and Kenny's staying busy training horses, on his farm, when he can, I hear from our gossipping friends.

I didn't know who his bassist was but somehow saw his website and was amazed at Danny's resume'. It's odd that Kenny has never saw me play bass or drums, only guitar, but R.L and Jr. thought I was a drummer, but I never had a juke joint gigs except for sitting in. Oh well.

The beginning of all the custom guitars started with ZZtop,I think, after one of their three trucks was stolen in Memphis. His old Les Paul was in it. I've always wondered who stole it, but twenty years later I doubt if it'll be seen again. The story I know from my memory of the local news and buzz at that concert. I don't remember them mentioning it from the stage.

I'll be looking at your youtube soon.

At 10:51am on March 2, 2008, Mississippi Blue said…: Hey,yer photos on youtube are great!
Is a nice story you wrote me!
Could be true or not :-)
The blues tells stories and everybody has dreams.
That´s the Blues...

At 9:14am on March 2, 2008, KB4IUJ said…: Wow, hang on to those recordings ! Are those tunes of his previously recorded ? You could be sitting on a goldmine, but the problem with Carl is he really has pretty small following, per se.

I mean, go to Jackson and I don't even think there's a musem honoring his works locall. Which is sort why I think Tiptonville could be a ideal location since all they've got is Reelfoot lake and the Eagles (birds) watching area. This is there winter retreat of sorts. That'd be a hoot if there was a Carl Perkins Musem, as for one thing. In the Tiptonville area they've got a pretty big drug problem with kids who have no real visual mentor - no visual clues to prove that if they do something like play music their is an Avenue for them to exit out of these small towns which dot the landscape. Everything in these parts is about fishing, essentially.

I've read Carl's book "Go Cat Go", about him describing his house he grew up in and hold cold it was. I can sometimes relate when the temps drop down into the 20*s, how damn bitterly cold it can get in these parts but for only a day or so... How quickly we forget... I tend to view that as sort of a way of hardening a person sole much like how in the early spring it's good for early plants to weather one or two, but not a whole lot. Gods version of character building for plants, I suppose.

At 5:09pm on March 1, 2008, Dixie Hippie said…: None of us old guys have any money. Back in the early days of Rock and Roll, there wasn't any money for us side men.

Carl does need a memorial in his hometown though.

At 5:07pm on March 1, 2008, Dixie Hippie said…: I knew Carl very well. I did some backup work with him at Sun back in '55. In fact, I have a tape of some of his work in Memphis in the 50's that I feel are some of the most precious recordings I have. I miss him very much.