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Wayne Perkins
American musician
browse: singers, composers, guitarists
dead
- born
- 1951
- died
- 2026
- age at death
- 74
- known for
- singer, composer, guitarist
1951 β 2026
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who wayne perkins is
David Wayne Perkins was an American rock and R&B guitarist, singer, songwriter, and session musician. A 2017 feature about him on the Alabama website AL.com described him as "arguably the greatest guitarist Alabama ever produced".
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