Hey, Portland, Oregon. The very first edition of The Trap Set Live is coming your way in a mere 10 days.

We have an all-star panel featuring Janet Weiss of Quasi and Slater Kinney, John Sherman of Red Fang,

Tim's spitsticks leech of Fear, and John Mowen of the Decemberists.

It all goes down on Saturday, January 30th, at 6 p.m. at the world-famous

revival drum shop. It's going to be a lot of fun and you'd be a fool to miss it. And if you don't

live in Portland, no worries. We've got plenty of other trap-set live events in the works

around the country. And now on to the show. This episode of the trap- Set is brought to you in part by Collective Coffee, handmade coffee since 1993.

Check them out online at collectivo.com. This is Joe Wong.

Welcome to the Trap Set, where each week we explore the lives of drummers.

I want to play something for you.

Well, it's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go cat, go, but don't you step on my blue suede shoes.

You can do anything but they're off of my blue suede shoes.

You're of course hearing blue suede shoes, recorded in 1955 by Carl Perkins and

featuring my guest W.S. Fluke Holland on drums. After noticing Fluke in the audience,

tapping along with the music during his local performances, Perkins asked him to drum for his band.

Fluke, at that point, had never played drums before and had to borrow a kit,

inadvertently setting it up backwards. A mere week after picking up drumsticks for the first time,

Fluk was recording paradigm-shifting records with Perkins at Sun Studios in Memphis.

Although, or perhaps because he had no awareness of the drumming traditions that preceded him,

his uniquely simple, driving train-like rhythms set the template for virtually all of the rock-and-roll and country drummers that followed.

Later that year, Fluke was the drummer

with what would become known as the Million Dollar Quartet, featuring Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis,

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