Complex sentence: Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin'circuit, eventually earning a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later finding work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid- 1965.
Split into simpler sentences: Soon afterward, he moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, and began playing gigs on the chitlin'circuit. He eventually earned a place in the Isley Brothers' backing band and later found work with Little Richard, with whom he continued to play through mid- 1965.