Luther Perkins - Smoke Inhalation

Luther Perkins’s performance at Cash’s famous Folsom Prison gig proved his last, he died from burns and smoke inhalation a couple of days after falling asleep with a lit cigarette in his hand. Perkins, who had also played with Jerry Lee Lewis, was buried in Henderson, Tennessee.

Luther Perkins born January 8, 1928, died August 5, 1968

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