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Carl Perkins' Family Affair

John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 8 February 1979

"WELL IT'S one for the money/Two for the show/I'd dance/But I'm too old," a beaming, bouncing forty-six-year-old Carl Perkins mocked from the Bottom Line stage as he closed the early show with his signature song, ‘Blue Suede Shoes’.

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