Credit: Photo By John Carrico

Joe Ely & Carl Perkins, Club Foot, early Eighties

By this time, Joe Ely had already taken the Clash by storm and was considered one of the prime exporters of Texas music culture. No wonder rockabilly king Carl Perkins brought him onstage to perform.

This article appears in January 28 • 2000.

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