Wayne Perkins may not be a name that all modern music fans know, but he had a big impact on rock music as well as blues and ...
Wayne Perkins, a versatile guitarist who played on albums for Joni Mitchell and Bob Marley and nearly joined the Rolling ...
Wayne Perkins, an iconic guitar player who helped influence bands likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Rolling Stones, has died. He was 74. Perkins died on Monday in a Birmingham, Alabama hospital. His ...
He almost got picked for the Rolling Stones, helped Bob Marley become a superstar, passed on joining Lynyrd Skynyrd, dated Joni Mitchell, and lived in music mogul David Geffen’s house. What a life ...
In their family’s Jacksonville home, growing up Johnny Van Zant shared a bedroom and bunkbeds with his older brother Ronnie Van Zant. When Ronnie’s band, which became the Southern rock juggernaut ...
Charlie Starr, the singer-guitarist for Blackberry Smoke, was sailing on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Simple Man Cruise in 2012 when the daughter of Gary Rossington approached him with a personal request from the ...
After nearly a year, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington is tentatively set to return to action at the band's concert in Fort Campbell, Ky., on May 21. As Johnson tells UCR, he'll continue to ...