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Pat Cupp
12+ albums
rockabillyRock and Roll50'sAll50s
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Reposted from the Rockabilly Hall of Fame http://www.rockabillyhall.com/PatCupp.html PAT CUPP SPEAKS: I was raised in a musical family. My dad was Burton Cupp and was a drummer. My mother, Ruth, was a piano player. I have two brothers, Skippy and Mickey, who both play piano. My sister Ruth (Bea, nick name), sings. I also did vocals and played guitar. My dad taught me to play the tenor guitar (4 strings) which I also used to do tenor banjo Dixieland style. I was playing music of the thirties when I was five years old. I got my first six (6) string guitar when I was eleven years old after playing a stage show in Dierks, Arkansas. I made six dollars and my dad gave me the rest so I could purchase a guitar which cost fifteen dollars. It took a while for my hands to grow large enough to handle the base strings, but within the next two years I managed to learn. My brother, Skippy had a friend, Billy Jo Graves, who played guitar and I watched him make chords using the base strings. My first guitar was not amplified and was used for rhythm only. I used this guitar until I was 18 years old and began recording. I bought a new guitar just before I signed my recording contract with RPM Records. I signed my Record Contract in May 1956. I appeared on stage shows with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, George Jones, Johnny Horton, Johnny Carroll, Tommy Sands, Jim Ed and Maxine Brown and a host of others. I joined the U.S. Air Force in March 1957 and spent 4 years. I
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Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly [Disc 2]
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Rockin' Bones
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Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly Disc 2
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Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk and Rockabilly
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Long Gone Daddies