Rock and Roll Legend Traditional Cache

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Chuck Walla: Hello Sean-Athair,

Geocaching HQ flagged this cache as one that may need attention and sent you an email about it. Some time after that, I disabled your cache and requested that you check on your cache and perform any necessary maintenance. Since you have not responded to my reviewer log about your cache by posting a note to your cache page to tell me and others of your intention to address the issue with it, the cache has been archived at the direction of Geocaching HQ.

Sincerely,

Chuck Walla
Community Volunteer Reviewer
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Hidden : 10/23/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

P&G BYOP

This cache is located where Billy Lee Riley's lived while growing up in Pocahontas. The house no longer stands but a plaque has been placed at the location in his memory by the Randolph County Tourism Commettee.

Billy Lee Riley

Birthdate - October 5, 1933
Birthplace - Pocahontas, Arkansas
Died August 2, 2009
Residence at time of death was Newport Arkansas

One of Memphis' truly unique rock and roll characters, Riley is considered by many to be Sun Records' lost giant. A true multi-threat, he possessed the myriad musical gifts of Carl Perkins, the unhinged spirit of Jerry Lee Lewis, and the punkish insouciance of Elvis Presley -- yet fate never rewarded Riley beyond cult acclaim.
Born in Pocahontas, Ark., in 1933 to a poor sharecropping clan, Riley developed a passion for blues and learned to pick guitar watching the older black musicians his family worked alongside.
Although he made some early appearances performing on local radio, Riley's career took shape after he was discharged from the Army in the mid-'50s. Moving to Memphis, Riley soon hooked up with a crew of fledgling country musicians that included "Cowboy" Jack Clement.
Clement and his truck driver partner, Slim Wallace, founded the tiny Fernwood label in a South Memphis garage and cut Riley's debut recordings, "Trouble Bound" and "Think Before Your Go." Clement took the tapes to Sam Phillips over at Sun Records so he could master a single. Impressed by what he heard, Phillips ended up hiring Clement to work at Sun, and signed Riley

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