This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...
And I just always felt good playing my songs up-tempo because that's the music I heard in the cotton fields. I picked cotton with many, many Black people, and we'd start singing. They would. And I'd ...