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Carl Perkins

Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 7 December 1968

"IF IT WEREN'T FOR the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song," said Carl Perkins with a comic dolefulness. He had just put down his well-thumbed copy of The Power of Positive Thinking and was staring out at the brown miles of West Texas prairie that slipped by the mobile home bus.

Total word count of piece: 1996

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