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Laura Lee Perkins Discusses Her Musical Career
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Title
Laura Lee Perkins Discusses Her Musical Career
Description
An interview conducted by phone with Laura Lee Perkins on 11 January 2011. Perkins talks about moving from a coal mining town in West Virginia to northeast Ohio, where she was a discovered by DJ Jeff Baxter and encouraged to record rock and roll. She describes recording for Imperial records in California and meeting Ricky Nelson and working with his session musicians. She then relocated to Detroit, Michigan, where her aunt helped her with her career and she began touring as "Laura Leigh." Perkins refers several times to a magazine story about herself: Craig "Bones" Maki, "Laura Lee Perkins Isn't Lost!" Blue Suede News (Spring 2005), pp. 19–23.
Date
11 November 2011
Rights
(c) 2011
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Interview Item Type Metadata
Interviewer
Branstetter, Leah
Interviewee
Perkins, Alice Faye (aka Laura Lee Perkins)
Transcription
[Text transcription forthcoming]
Duration
31:47
Citation
“Laura Lee Perkins Discusses Her Musical Career,” Women in Rock & Roll's First Wave, accessed October 10, 2024, http://www.womeninrockproject.org/omeka/items/show/9.