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Wayne Perkins
12+ albums
guitarrockbluesblues rock
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Wayne Perkins (born David Wayne Perkins in 1951 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a guitarist, singer, songwriter and session musician. In the early 1970s he was part of Smith Perkins Smith. Subsequently he has been in demand as a session musician, recording with many international artists including Bob Marley and the Wailers , Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the Rolling Stones. At age 15, Perkins played his first gig as a session musician, in Bob Grove's Prestige Recording Studio in Birmingham. At 16, he left school and started performing in local bands and released singles with a band called the Vikings with Charles Nettles. In 1968, drummer Jasper Guarino helped Perkins land a steady job as a session guitarist in a studio owned by Quin Ivy called "Quinvy's" in Muscle Shoals. Perkins was salaried at $100 a week. This led to work at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with such names as David Porter and the Soul Children, Dave Crawford and Brad Shapiro, Dee Dee Warwick, Ronnie Milsap, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Jimmy Cliff, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood and Marlin Greene. In the early 1970s Wayne left session work to form a band called Smith Perkins Smith which recorded two albums. While in Kingston Jamaica at the Island Basing Street recording studios, Perkins was working on a second Smith Perkins Smith album for Island when Chris Blackwell stopped him. "He said there was a Wailer project he wanted me to play on", Perkins played with Bob Marley and the Wailers recording C
