Carl Perkins
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Biography
Alongside Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins was one of the key stars crafted at legendary producer Sam Phillips's Sun Studio in the late 1950s - "the birth place of rock'n'roll". Raised in a poor family of share croppers in North Tennessee, he was taught guitar as a 10-year-old by an older black cotton picker and grew up listening to gospel, blues and country music on local radio stations. A successful audition with Phillips led to him penning the 1955 classic Blue Suede Shoes, a US Number 2 hit for Perkins, which became one of the most famous rock songs of all time when Elvis Presley covered the song a year later. It became the first Sun Records single to sell a million copies, but Perkins could only follow it with minor rockabilly hits such as Boppin' The Blues, Dixie Fried and Restless. He went on to hugely influence The Beatles, The Animals and a host of British beat acts of the 1960s, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and collaborated with Duane Eddy, Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and Bono before his death in 1998 from throat cancer, aged 65.
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Albums
Top Tracks
- Track Popularity
- Blue Suede Shoes by Johnny Cash
- Honey Don't
- Just A Little Talk With Jesus featuring Johnny Cash
- Put Your Cat Clothes On
- Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind featuring Johnny Cash
- The Rain Might Wash Your Love Away
- Too Much Monkey Business featuring Johnny Cash
- Look At That Moon
- Forever Yours
- Lawdy Miss Clawdy
- Only You
- Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong featuring Johnny Cash
- Boppin' The Blues by Carl Perkins
- Closing Medley: Folsom Prison Blues/I Walk The Line/Ring Of Fire/The Rebel - Johnny Yuma featuring The Carter Family
- Brown Eyed Handsome Man featuring Johnny Cash
- I Shall Not Be Moved featuring Johnny Cash
- Love's the Only Thing That's Free
- Matchbox
- I Just Can't Make It By Myself featuring Johnny Cash
- Farther Along featuring Johnny Cash
- Turn Around by Carl Perkins
- Blessed Jesus (Hold My Hand) featuring Johnny Cash
- Boppin' The Blues
- I Don't Want To Bring On Rain
