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American rockabilly musician (1932–1998)

Carl Perkins
Perkins in 1977
Born	Carl Lee Perkins (1932-04-09)April 9, 1932 Tiptonville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	Jan 19, 1998(1998-01-19) (aged 65) Jackson, Tennessee, U.Due south.
Resting place	Ridgecrest Cemetery Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Singer songwriter
Musical career
Genres	Rock and roll rockabilly country
Instruments	Vocals guitar
Years active	1946–1997
Labels	Sunday London Columbia Mercury
Associated acts	Perkins Brothers Band Million Dollar Quartet Johnny Cash Jerry Lee Lewis Elvis Presley Roy Orbison Class of '55 Waylon Jennings Willie Nelson Ringo Starr George Harrison Eric Clapton The Carter Family Charlie Daniels
Musical artist

Carl Lee Perkins (April nine, 1932 – January 19, 1998)^{[1] [ii]} was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist who recorded at the Sunday Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".

According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more than and then than anybody involved in it, because he never changed."^[iii] Perkins's songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential equally Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Greenbacks and Eric Clapton which further established his place in the history of popular music. Paul McCartney said "if there were no Carl Perkins, at that place would be no Beatles."^[four]

Called "the Male monarch of Rockabilly", he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He also received a Grammy Hall of Fame Accolade.

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

Perkins was born in Tiptonville, Tennessee, the son of poor sharecroppers Louise and Cadet Perkins (misspelled on his nascency certificate as "Perkings").^[5] Outset at the age of six, he worked long hours in the cotton fields with his family, whether school was in session or not.^[6] He grew up hearing southern gospel music sung by white friends in church building and by black field workers working in the cotton fields.^[7] On Saturday nights Perkins would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on his male parent's radio. Roy Acuff'due south broadcasts inspired him to inquire his parents for a guitar.^[8] Since they could not afford ane, his begetter fabricated one from a cigar box and a broomstick. Somewhen, a neighbor sold his begetter a worn-out Gene Autry guitar. Perkins could not afford new strings, and when they broke he had to retie them. The knots cutting his fingers when he would slide to some other note, so he began bending the notes, stumbling onto a type of bluish note.^{[three] [ix]}

Perkins taught himself parts of Acuff'due south "Nifty Speckled Bird" and "The Wabash Cannonball", having heard them played on the Opry. He besides cited Bill Monroe's fast playing and vocals equally an early influence.^[10] Perkins likewise learned from John Westbrook, an African-American field worker in his sixties who played dejection and gospel music on an old acoustic guitar. Westbrook advised Perkins to "Get downwardly close to it. You lot tin experience it travel down the strangs, come through your head and downwards to your soul where you alive. Y'all can feel it. Permit it vib-a-rate."^{[3] [ix]}

In January 1947, the Perkins family moved from Lake Canton, Tennessee, to Madison County. Now in closer proximity to Memphis, Perkins was exposed to a greater diverseness of music.^[11] At age fourteen, he wrote a country song called "Let Me Take You to the Movie, Magg". Information technology was that song that eventually persuaded Sam Phillips to sign Perkins to his Sun Records characterization.^[12]

Beginnings every bit a performer [edit]

Perkins and his brother Jay had their offset paying job (in tips) as entertainers at the Cotton fiber Boll tavern on Highway 45, twelve miles south of Jackson, starting on Wednesday nights during belatedly 1946. Perkins was 14 years old. One of the songs they played was an up-tempo country dejection shuffle version of Nib Monroe'due south "Blue Moon of Kentucky". Free drinks were one of the perks of playing in a tavern, and Perkins drank iv beers that first night. Within a calendar month Carl and Jay began playing Friday and Saturday nights at the Sand Ditch tavern, nearly the western boundary of Jackson. Both places were the scene of occasional fights, and both of the Perkins brothers gained a reputation every bit fighters.^[thirteen]

During the next couple of years the Perkins brothers began playing other taverns effectually Bemis and Jackson, including El Rancho, the Roadside Inn, and the Hilltop, as they became better known. Carl persuaded his brother Clayton to play the upright bass to complete the sound of the ring.^[14]

Perkins began performing regularly on WTJS in Jackson during the late 1940s as a sometime member of the Tennessee Ramblers. He also appeared on Hayloft Frolic, on which he performed 2 songs, sometimes including "Talking Blues" as done by Robert Lunn on the Grand Ole Opry. Perkins then his brothers began appearing on The Early Forenoon Farm and Abode Hour. Positive listener response resulted in a 15-infinitesimal segment sponsored by Female parent's Best Flour. By the end of the 1940s, the Perkins Brothers were the best-known band in the Jackson expanse.^[15] Perkins had day jobs during most of these early years, including picking cotton, working at diverse factories and plants, and as a pan greaser for the Colonial Baking Visitor.^{[sixteen] [17]}

In Jan 1953, Perkins married Valda Crider, whom he had known for a number of years. When his job at the bakery was reduced to office-time, Valda, who had her own job, encouraged Perkins to begin working the taverns total-time. He began playing half-dozen nights a calendar week. Later the same twelvemonth he added W.S. "Fluke" Holland to the band as a drummer. Holland had no previous experience as a musician but had a adept sense of rhythm.^[18]

Malcolm Yelvington, who remembered the Perkins Brothers when they played in Covington, Tennessee, in 1953, noted that Carl had an unusual blues-like style all his own.^[19] By 1955 Perkins had fabricated tapes of his material with a borrowed tape recorder, and he sent them to companies such as Columbia and RCA, with addresses like "Columbia Records, New York Urban center". "I had sent tapes to RCA and Columbia and had never heard a thing from 'em."^[20]

In July 1954, Perkins and his wife heard a new release of "Blue Moon of Kentucky" by Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore and Bill Black on the radio.^[21] As the vocal faded out, Perkins said, "There's a human being in Memphis who understands what we're doing. I need to go see him."^[22] According to another telling of the story, it was Valda who told him that he should go to Memphis.^[23] Later, Presley told Perkins he traveled to Jackson and had seen Perkins and his group playing at El Rancho.^[20]

Years later the musician Gene Vincent told an interviewer, rather than "Blue Moon of Kentucky" being a "new sound", "a lot of people were doing information technology before that, especially Carl Perkins."^[24]

Sun Records [edit]

Perkins successfully auditioned for Sam Phillips at Dominicus Records in early October 1954. "Pic Magg" and "Turn Around" were released on the Phillips-owned Flip characterization (151) on March 19, 1955.^[25] "Plough Around" became a regional success, and Perkins was booked to appear along with Elvis Presley at theaters in Marianna and West Memphis, Arkansas.^{[ii] [26]} Johnny Greenbacks and the Tennessee Two were the adjacent musicians to be added to the performances by Dominicus musicians. During the summer of 1955 there were junkets to Little Rock and Forrest City, Arkansas and to Corinth and Tupelo, Mississippi. Over again performing at El Rancho, the Perkins brothers were involved in an automobile accident in Woodside, Delaware. A friend, who had been driving, was pinned past the steering wheel and had to be dragged from the called-for automobile by Perkins. Clayton had been thrown from the car but was not seriously injured.^[27]

Another Perkins song, "Gone Gone Gone",^{[28] [29]} released by Sun in Oct 1955,^[xxx] was also a regional success. It was a "bounce blues in flavorsome combined country and r.&b. idioms".^[31] The B-side was the more traditional country song "Permit the Jukebox Keep On Playing".^[32]

Commenting on Perkins's playing, Sam Phillips has been quoted as saying, "I knew that Carl could rock and in fact he told me right from the showtime that he had been playing that music earlier Elvis came out on tape ... I wanted to see whether this was someone who could revolutionize the country end of the business."^[33]

Also in the autumn of 1955, Perkins wrote "Blue Suede Shoes"^[7] after seeing a dancer get angry with his appointment for scuffing up his shoes.^[34] Several weeks afterward, on December nineteen, 1955, Perkins and his band recorded the song during a session at Lord's day Studio in Memphis. Phillips suggested changes to the lyrics ("Become, cat, go"), and the ring changed the end of the song to a "boogie vamp".^[35] Presley left Sun Records for RCA in November, and Perkins was left as the primary rockabilly artist at Sun. In Dec that year, Phillips told him, "Carl Perkins, you're my rockabilly true cat now."^[36] Released on January 1, 1956, "Blueish Suede Shoes" was a massive nautical chart success. In the United states, it reached number 1 on Billboard mag'southward country music chart (the only number 1 success he would have) and number 2 on the Billboard Best Sellers popular music chart. On March 17, Perkins became the showtime state creative person to achieve number 3 on the rhythm and blues charts.^{[35] [37]} That dark, Perkins performed the vocal on ABC-Tv's Ozark Jubilee, his television debut (Presley performed information technology for the second time that same night on CBS-TV's Phase Show; he'd first sung information technology on the program on Feb eleven).

In the United Kingdom, the vocal reached number 10 on the British charts. It was the first record by a Sun artist to sell a meg copies. The B side, "Honey Don't", was covered past the Beatles,^[seven] Wanda Jackson and (in the 1970s) T. Rex. John Lennon sang atomic number 82 on the song when the Beatles performed it, before it was given to Ringo Starr to sing. Lennon also performed the song on the Lost Lennon Tapes.^[37]

Road crash [edit]

After playing a prove in Norfolk, Virginia, on March 21, 1956, the Perkins Brothers Band headed to New York City for a March 24 appearance on NBC-TV's Perry Como Show. Shortly earlier sunrise on March 22, on Route 13 between Dover and Woodside, Delaware, their vehicle hit the dorsum of a pickup truck and went into a ditch containing nigh a pes of water. Kingdom of the netherlands had to pull Perkins, unconscious, from the water. Perkins had sustained three fractured vertebrae in his neck, a severe concussion, a broken collar os, and lacerations all over his body. Perkins remained unconscious for an entire twenty-four hour period. The driver of the pickup truck, Thomas Phillips, a 40-yr-former farmer, died when he was thrown into the steering bike.^[38] Jay Perkins had a fractured neck and severe internal injuries; complications from these injuries led to a brain tumor, and he died in 1958.^{[39] [40]}

On March 23, Elvis'due south ring members Nib Blackness, Scotty Moore and D.J. Fontana visited Perkins on their way to New York to appear with Presley. Fontana recalled Perkins maxim, "You looked like a bunch of angels coming to meet me."^[41] Black told him, "Hey man, Elvis sends his love", and lit a cigarette for him, even though the patient in the side by side bed was in an oxygen tent.^[42] Presley also telegraphed Perkins his well wishes.^[42]

"Blue Suede Shoes" had sold more than 500,000 copies by March 22, and Sam Philips had planned to celebrate past presenting Perkins with a gold record on The Perry Como Show.^[43] While Perkins recuperated from his injuries, "Blueish Suede Shoes" reached number 1 on regional pop, R&B, and country charts. It besides reached number 2 on the Billboard popular and state charts, below Elvis Presley'southward "Heartbreak Hotel". By mid-April, more than than ane million copies of "Blue Suede Shoes" had been sold.^[44] On April 3, while still recuperating in Jackson, Perkins watched Presley perform "Blueish Suede Shoes" on his first appearance on The Milton Berle Show, which was his third performance of the song on national television set.^{[45] [46]}

Return to recording and touring [edit]

Perkins returned to live performances on Apr 21, 1956, showtime with an appearance in Beaumont, Texas, with the "Large D Jamboree" tour.^[47] Earlier he resumed touring, Sam Phillips arranged a recording session at Dominicus, with Ed Cisco filling in for the notwithstanding-recuperating Jay. By mid-Apr, "Dixie Fried", "Put Your Cat Clothes On", "Right Cord, Wrong Yo-Yo", "You Can't Brand Dearest to Somebody", "Everybody's Trying to Be My Infant", and "That Don't Motion Me" had been recorded.^[48]

Carl Perkins (2d from left) performing "Glad All Over" with (left to right) Clayton Perkins, W.Due south. "Fluke" The netherlands, and Jay Perkins in the movie Jamboree

Beginning early that summer, Perkins was paid $1,000 to play just ii songs a night on the extended tour of "Meridian Stars of '56". Other performers on the tour were Chuck Drupe and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. When Perkins and the group entered the stage in Columbia, Southward Carolina, he was shocked to see a teenager with a bleeding chin pressed against the phase by the crowd. During the offset guitar intermission of "Honey Don't" they were waved offstage and into a vacant dressing room backside a double line of police officers. Appalled past what he had seen and experienced, Perkins left the bout.^[49] Actualization with Cistron Vincent and Lillian Briggs in a "rock 'n' scroll show", he helped pull 39,872 people to the Reading Off-white in Pennsylvania on a Tuesday night in late September. A total grandstand and one thousand people stood in a heavy pelting to hear Perkins and Briggs at the Brockton Off-white in Massachusetts.^[50]

Dominicus issued more Perkins songs in 1956: "Boppin' the Blues"/"All Mama's Children" (Sunday 243), the B side co-written with Johnny Cash, and "Dixie Fried"/"I'm Distressing, I'k Not Distressing" (Sun 249). "Matchbox"/"Your True Love" (Lord's day 261)^[51] came out in February 1957.^[thirty] "Boppin' the Dejection" reached number 47 on the Cashbox pop singles chart, number nine on the Billboard country and western chart, and number seventy on the Billboard Top 100 chart.

"Matchbox" is considered a rockabilly classic. It was recorded during an impromptu session with Perkins, Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis, informally referred to equally the Million Dollar Quartet.^[seven] The full recordings from this session, a choice of gospel, land, and R&B songs, were released in 1990.^[2]

On Feb two, 1957, Perkins again appeared on Ozark Jubilee, singing "Matchbox" and "Blue Suede Shoes". He also fabricated at to the lowest degree two appearances on Town Hall Party in Compton, California, in 1957,^[52] singing both songs. Those performances were included in the Western Ranch Dance Party series filmed and distributed by Screen Gems.

He released "That'southward Right", co-written with Johnny Greenbacks, backed with the ballad "Forever Yours", as Dominicus single 274 in August 1957. Neither side made it onto the charts.

The 1957 film Jamboree included a Perkins performance of "Glad All Over". The song, written by Aaron Schroeder, Sid Tepper, and Roy C. Bennett,^[53] was released by Sunday in January 1958.^[54]

Life afterwards Sun [edit]

In 1958, Perkins moved to Columbia Records, for which he recorded "Jive Subsequently Five", "Rockin' Record Hop", "Levi Jacket (And a Long Tail Shirt)", "Popular, Let Me Take the Car", "Pink Pedal Pushers", "Any Way the Wind Blows", "Hambone", "Pointed Toe Shoes", "Sister Twister", "L-O-5-E-V-I-L-Fifty-E" and other songs.^[30]

In 1959, he wrote the country-and-western song "The Ballad of Kicking Hill" for Johnny Cash, who recorded information technology on an EP for Columbia Records. In the same twelvemonth, Perkins was cast in a Filipino motion picture produced by People's Pictures, Hawaiian Male child, in which he sang "Blue Suede Shoes".^{[ commendation needed ]}

He performed oft at the Gold Nugget Casino in Las Vegas in 1962 and 1963. During this time he toured nine Midwestern states and made a tour in Deutschland.

In May 1964, Perkins toured Britain with Chuck Berry.^[55] Perkins had been reluctant to undertake the bout, convinced that as forgotten equally he was in America, he would exist even more obscure in the U.K., and he did not desire to exist humiliated past cartoon meager audiences. Drupe assured him that they had remained much more popular in Britain since the 1950s than they had in the Usa and that there would exist large crowds of fans at every show. The Animals backed the 2 performers. On the last nighttime of the bout, Perkins attended a party where he sat on the floor sharing stories, playing guitar, and singing songs while surrounded by the Beatles. Ringo Starr asked if he could tape "Love Don't". Perkins answered, "Man, become ahead, take at it."^[56] The Beatles went on to record covers of "Matchbox", "Honey Don't" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Infant" (recorded past Perkins, adapted from a song originally recorded by Rex Griffin in 1936, with new music by Perkins; a vocal with the same title was recorded past Roy Newman in 1938). The Beatles recorded 2 versions of "Glad All Over" in 1963.^[57] Another bout to Deutschland followed in the autumn.

He released "Big Bad Blues" backed with "Lonely Heart" every bit a single on Brunswick Records with the Nashville Teens in June 1964.^[58]

In 1966, Perkins signed with Dollie Records and released as his first single "Country Boy's Dream" which reached #22 in the country charts.

While on tour with the Johnny Cash troupe in 1968, Perkins went on a four-day drinking binge that ended in him hallucinating floridly and passing out. When he regained consciousness, he went out to the beach with his last canteen of alcohol. In his autobiography, he described falling to his knees and declaring, "Lord, ... I'm gonna throw this bottle. I'one thousand gonna show You that I believe in y'all," before hurling the bottle into the sea and vowing to remain sober. Perkins and Greenbacks, who had his own substance-abuse issues, supported each other in their bid to remain sober.^[59]

In 1968, Cash recorded the Perkins-written "Daddy Sang Bass" (which incorporates parts of the American standard "Will the Circumvolve Be Unbroken") and scored No. 1 on the country music charts for six weeks. "Daddy Sang Bass" was a Land Music Association nominee for Vocal of the Year. Perkins also played lead guitar on Greenbacks's single "A Boy Named Sue", recorded alive at San Quentin prison, which went to No. 1 for five weeks on the country chart and No. 2 on the popular chart (the performance was besides filmed by Granada Television for broadcast). Perkins spent a decade in Cash's touring revue, often as an opening deed for Cash (as at the Folsom and San Quentin prison concerts, at which he was recorded singing "Blueish Suede Shoes" and "Matchbox" before Cash took the phase; these performances were not released until the 2000s). He also appeared on the television set serialThe Johnny Greenbacks Show.

On the television program Kraft Music Hall on April 16, 1969, hosted by Cash, Perkins performed his song "Restless".^{[60] [61]}

Perkins and Bob Dylan wrote "Champaign, Illinois" in 1969. Dylan was recording in Nashville from February 12 to Feb 21 for his album Nashville Skyline. He met Perkins when he appeared on The Johnny Cash Show on June 7.^[62] Dylan had writer'southward cake and was unable to complete the vocal until Perkins contributed a rhythm and some lyrics, upon which Dylan said to him, "Your song. Take information technology. Terminate it."^[63] The co-authored song was included on Perkins's 1969 album On Top.^{[64] [65]}

Perkins was as well united in 1969 by Columbia'due south Murray Krugman with a rockabilly grouping based in New York's Hudson Valley, the New Rhythm and Blues Quartet. Perkins and NRBQ recorded Boppin' the Dejection, which featured the group backing him on songs including his staples "Plow Around" and "Boppin' the Blues" and included songs recorded separately by Perkins and NRBQ.^[66] One of his Television appearances with Cash was on the popular country serial Hee Haw, on February sixteen, 1974.

Tommy Cash (brother of Johnny Cash) had a Top Ten land gospel hit in 1970 with a recording of the song "Ascension and Shine", written by Perkins. Information technology reached number 9 on the Billboard country chart and number eight on the Canadian country chart. Arlene Harden had a Top 40 country striking in 1971 with the Perkins limerick "True Love Is Greater Than Friendship", from the film Little Fauss and Big Halsy (1971), which reached number 22 on the Billboard country chart and number 33 on the Billboard Adult Gimmicky chart for Al Martino that same twelvemonth.

After a long legal struggle with Sam Phillips over royalties, Perkins gained ownership of his songs in the 1970s.^[67]

Later years [edit]

The rockabilly revival of the 1980s helped bring Perkins dorsum into the limelight. In 1981 Perkins recorded the song "Get It" with Paul McCartney, providing vocals and playing guitar with the former Beatle; according to one source, he fully co-wrote the vocal with McCartney.^[68] This recording was included on the chart-topping album Tug of War, released in 1982.^[69] During 1985, he re-recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" with Lee Rocker and Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats, as part of the soundtrack for the film Porky'south Revenge.

In October 1985, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Lee Rocker, Rosanne Cash and Ringo Starr appeared with him on phase for a idiot box special, Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session, which was taped alive at the Limehouse Studios in London. The bear witness was shown on Channel 4 on January 1, 1986. Perkins performed sixteen songs, with two encores, in an extraordinary operation. He and his friends ended the session by singing his most famous vocal, xxx years after its writing, which brought Perkins to tears. The concert special was a highlight of his after career and has been praised by fans for the spirited performances delivered by Perkins and his guests. The concert was released for DVD by Snapper Music in 2006.^[70]

Perkins was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1985. Wider recognition of his contribution to music came with his induction into the Stone and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. "Blue Suede Shoes" was chosen every bit one of the Rock and Whorl Hall of Fame's "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Coil". The song likewise received a Grammy Hall of Fame Accolade. Perkins was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame in recognition of his pioneering contribution to the genre.

Perkins's just notable film performance every bit an actor was in John Landis's 1985 flick Into the Night, a cameo-laden picture that includes a scene in which characters played by Perkins and David Bowie die by each other's hand.^[71]

Perkins returned to the Sunday Studio in Memphis in 1986, joining Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison on the album Class of '55. The tape was a tribute to their early years at Sun and, specifically, the Million Dollar Quartet jam session involving Perkins, Presley, Cash, and Lewis in 1956.

In 1989, Perkins co-wrote and played guitar on the Judds' number one state striking, "Allow Me Tell Yous About Love". Also in that year, he signed a record bargain with Platinum Records for the album Friends, Family unit, and Legends, featuring performances by Chet Atkins, Travis Tritt, Steve Wariner, Joan Jett and Charlie Daniels, forth with Paul Shaffer and Volition Lee. During the production of this anthology, Perkins developed throat cancer.

He again returned to Sunday Studio to record with Scotty Moore, Presley'due south kickoff guitar player, for the album 706 ReUNION, released past Belle Meade Records, which also featured D. J. Fontana, Marcus Van Storey and the Jordanaires. In 1993, Perkins performed with the Kentucky Headhunters in a music video remake of his vocal "Dixie Fried", filmed in Glasgow, Kentucky. In 1994, he teamed up with Duane Eddy and the Mavericks to contribute "Matchbox" to the AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Country, produced by the Red Hot Arrangement.

His last album, Go Cat Go!, released past the independent label Dinosaur Records in 1996, features Perkins singing duets with Bono, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Tom Niggling, Paul Simon, and Ringo Starr.^{[72] [73]}

His last major concert functioning was the Music for Montserrat all-star clemency concert at London's Regal Albert Hall on September 15, 1997, 4 months earlier his death.

Personal life [edit]

A strong advocate for the prevention of child corruption, Perkins worked with the Jackson Substitution Club to plant the outset eye for the prevention of child corruption in Tennessee and the fourth in the nation. Proceeds from a concert planned by Perkins were combined with a grant from the National Exchange Gild to establish the Prevention of Child Abuse in Oct 1981. For years its almanac Circle of Hope Telethon generated one quarter of the middle's almanac operating upkeep.^[74]

Perkins had one girl, Debbie, and three sons, Stan, Greg, and Steve.

Stan, his first-born son, is as well a recording creative person. In 2010, he joined forces with Jerry Naylor to record a duet tribute, "To Carl: Let it Vibrate". Stan has been inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

Perkins died on January 19, 1998, at the age of 65 at Jackson-Madison County Hospital in Jackson, Tennessee, from throat cancer. He had suffered several modest strokes the previous month. Amid the mourners at his funeral at Lambuth University were George Harrison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Wynonna Judd, Garth Brooks, Nashville agent Jim Dallas Crouch, Johnny Cash and June Carter Greenbacks. Perkins was interred at Ridgecrest Cemetery in Jackson.

Perkins's widow, Valda deVere Perkins, died on November 15, 2005, in Jackson.

Guitar style [edit]

As a guitarist Perkins used finger picking, imitations of the pedal steel guitar, palm muting, arpeggios, advantageous employ of open strings, single and double string angle, chromaticism, country and blues licks, and tritone and other tonality clashing licks (short phrases that include notes from other keys and move in logical, often symmetric patterns).^[75] A rich vocabulary of chords including sixth and thirteenth chords, ninth and add nine chords, and suspensions, show up in rhythm parts and solos. Free apply of syncopations, chord anticipations (arriving at a chord change before the other players, ofttimes by an eighth-note) and crosspicking (repeating a 3 eighth-annotation pattern so that an accent falls variously on the upbeat or downbeat) were also in his handbag of tricks.^[76]

Legacy [edit]

Celebrated mark commemorating Perkins aslope other famous peers

Continuation of the historic placard in tribute to Perkins

Perkins wrote his autobiography, Get, True cat, Go, published in 1996, in collaboration with music writer David McGee in 1996. Plans for a biographical motion-picture show were appear by Santa Monica-based production company Fastlane Entertainment.^{[77] [78]} was slated for release in 2009.

In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Perkins number 99 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.^[79]

Many of the Beatles' live shows were full of Rock 'Northward' Roll covers of Carl Perkins's songs such as 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby', 'Matchbox' and 'Honey Don't'.

His version of "Bluish Suede Shoes" was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006.^[80]

The Perkins family still owns his songs.^[67]

Drive-Past Truckers, on their album The Muddied South, recorded a song about him, "Carl Perkins' Cadillac". The Carl Perkins Arena in Jackson, Tennessee, is named in his honor.

George Thorogood and the Destroyers covered "Dixie Fried" on their 1985 album Maverick. The Kentucky Headhunters likewise covered the song, equally did Keith de Groot on his 1968 album No Introduction Necessary, with Jimmy Page on lead guitar and John Paul Jones on bass.^[81]

Ricky Nelson covered Perkins's "Boppin' the Blues" and "Your True Love" on his 1957 debut anthology, Ricky.

Perkins was portrayed past Johnny "Kid Memphis" Holiday in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.

Perkins was honored with the "Lifetime Achievement" laurels during the Tennessee Music Awards event in 2018 at the University of Memphis Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee.

Awards [edit]

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The following recording by Carl Perkins was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy accolade established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance".

Carl Perkins: Grammy Hall of Fame Awards [82]
Year Released	Title	Genre	Label	Twelvemonth Inducted	Notes
1956	"Bluish Suede Shoes"	Rock and Gyre (single)	Sun Records	1986

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

• Dance Album (1957)
• Whole Lotta Shakin' (1958)
• Land Boy'south Dream (1967)
• On Summit (Columbia, 1969)
• My Kind of Country (Mercury, 1973)
• Ol' Bluish Suede's Back (1978)
• Country Soul (1979)
• Disciple in Blue Suede Shoes (1984)
• Born to Rock (1989)
• Friends, Family & Legends (1992)

Collaborative albums [edit]

• Boppin' the Blues (1970, with NRBQ)
• The Survivors (1982, with Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Greenbacks)
• Grade of '55 (1986, with Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash)
• The Meg Dollar Quartet (1990, with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Greenbacks)
• 706 Re-Union (1990, with Scotty Moore)
• Carl Perkins & Sons (1993, with his sons Greg and Stan)
• Go Cat Become! (1996, with various guest stars)

Alive albums [edit]

• The Carl Perkins Show (1976)
• Alive at Austin City Limits (1981)
• The Silver Eagle Cross Country: Carl Perkins Alive (1997)
• Live at Gilley's (1999)
• Alive (2000)
• Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session (2006)

Religious albums [edit]

• Stone 'N Gospel (1979)
• Pikestaff Creek Glory Church (1979)
• Gospel (1984)

Selected compilations [edit]

• Carl Perkins' Greatest Hits (1969, re-recordings)
• Original Aureate Hits (1969)
• Mr. State Rock (Demand, 1977)
• That Rockin' Guitar Man (1981)
• Presenting Carl Perkins (Accordance, 1982)
• Every Road (Joker, 1982)
• Goin' Dorsum to Memphis (Joker, 1982)
• Boppin' the New Bleus (1982)
• Built-in to Boogie (O'Hara Records, 1982)
• This Ole House (1982)
• Presenting (1982)
• The Heart and Soul of Carl Perkins (Allegiance, 1983)
• Carl Perkins (Dot, 1985)
• Original Sun Greatest Hits (1986)
• Up Through the Years 1954–57 (1986)
• Country Male child'due south Dream - The Dollie Masters (Bear Family unit, 1991)
• Take Me Dorsum (1993)
• Back on Top - (Acquit Family, 2000; 4 CDs, comprising 1968–1975)

Guest appearances [edit]

• Judds: Greatest Hits Volume II (1991)
• Philip Claypool: Perfect Earth (1999)

Charted albums [edit]

Year	Album	Top positions	Label
		US State
1969	Carl Perkins' Greatest Hits (re-recordings)	32	Columbia
	On Top	42
	Original Golden Hits	43	Sunday
1973	My Kind of Country	48	Mercury
1982	The Survivors Live (with Johnny Greenbacks and Jerry Lee Lewis)	21	Columbia
1986	Class of '55 (with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Johnny Greenbacks)	xv	America/Mercury

Charted singles [edit]

Year	Single	Peak chart positions			Anthology
		US Country	US	Tin can Country
1956	"Blue Suede Shoes"	1	ii	—	Dance Album of ... Carl Perkins
	"Boppin' the Blues"	vii	70	—
	"Dixie Fried"	x	—	—	Original Golden Hits
	"I'm Sorry, I'm Not Sorry"	flip	—	—	Blue Suede Shoes
1957	"Your Truthful Dear"	thirteen	67	—	Trip the light fantastic toe Anthology of ... Carl Perkins
1958	"Pink Pedal Pushers"	17	91	—	The King of Stone
1959	"Pointed Toe Shoes"	—	93	—
1966	"Land Boy'due south Dream"	22	—	—	Country Male child's Dream
1967	"Smooth, Shine, Shine"	40	—	—
1969	"Restless"	20	—	—	Carl Perkins' Greatest Hits
1971	"Me Without You lot"	65	—	—	The Man Behind Johnny Cash
	"Cotton Top"	53	—	—
1972	"Loftier on Beloved"	threescore	—	—	Unmarried just
1973	"(Let's Get) Dixiefried" (1973 version)	61	—	—	My Kind of Country
1986	"Nascency of Stone and Roll"	31	—	44	Class of '55
1987	"Class of '55"	83	—	—
1989	"Charlene"	—	—	74	Born to Rock

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Notes [edit]

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2. ^ ^{a b c} Pareles.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Naylor, p. 118.
4. ^ "Rock 'northward Coil Legend Carl Perkins' Much Anticipated Story to Come to the Big Screen". August 16, 2007. Retrieved April 5, 2013.
5. ^ [1] Archived Feb 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ Perkins, pp. 8–9.
7. ^ ^{a b c d} Carl Perkins interviewed on the Pop Chronicles (1969)
8. ^ Naylor.
9. ^ ^{a b} Perkins, pp. xiii–14.
10. ^ Perkins, pp. 11–12.
11. ^ Perkins, pp. 30, 55.
12. ^ Perkins, pp. 30, 68.
13. ^ Perkins, pp. 36–41.
14. ^ Perkins, p. 48.
15. ^ Perkins, pp. 48–49.
16. ^ Perkins, pp. 32, 70–71.
17. ^ "The Legend Carl Perkins". Rockabillytennessee.com. Jan 19, 1998. Archived from the original on Nov 17, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
18. ^ Perkins, pp. lxx–71.
19. ^ Perkins, p. 77.
20. ^ ^{a b} "The Meridian Beats the Bottom: Carl Perkins and his Music". The Atlantic. December 1970. p. 100.
21. ^ [two] ^{[ dead link ]}
22. ^ Perkins, pp. 79–90.
23. ^ Rockabilly Legends. Naler. p. 121.
24. ^ VanHecke, Susan (2000). Race with the Devil. St. Martin'due south Press. p. 219. ISBN 0-312-26222-one.
25. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2014. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
26. ^ Perkins, pp. 106–108.
27. ^ Perkins, pp. 122–124.
28. ^ [3] ^{[ expressionless link ]}
29. ^ "MP3 recording" (MP3). Rcs-discography.com. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
30. ^ ^{a b c} "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved May 22, 2014. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
31. ^ Billboard, October 22, 1955. Reviews of New C&Due west Records. p. 44.
32. ^ The Carl Perkins Lord's day collection.
33. ^ Escott, Colin; Hawkins, Martin. Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'north' Curlicue. Google eBook. Retrieved 10.eleven.2011.
34. ^ Perrkins, Carl; McGee, David (1996). Get, Cat, Go! Hyperion Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-7868-6073-1
35. ^ ^{a b} Miller, James (1999). Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rising of Stone and Roll, 1947–1977. Simon & Schuster. pp. 124–25. ISBN 0-684-80873-0.
36. ^ Naylor, p. 135.
37. ^ ^{a b} Naylor, p. 137.
38. ^ Perkins, pp. 178, 180.
39. ^ Morrison, Craig (1999). Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers. University of Illinois Printing. p. 83. ISBN978-0-252-06538-5.
40. ^ Larkin, Colin (May 27, 2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. p. 1988. ISBN978-0-85712-595-8.
41. ^ Burke, Ken; Griffin, Dan (2006). The Blue Moon Boys: The Story of Elvis Presley's Ring. Chicago Review Press. p. 88. ISBN ane-55652-614-viii.
42. ^ ^{a b} Perkins, pp. 182, 184.
43. ^ Perkins, p. 173.
44. ^ Perkins, p. 187.
45. ^ Perkins, p. 184.
46. ^ "Elvis's Television Appearances 1956–1973". Kki.pl. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-25 .
47. ^ Perkins, p. 191.
48. ^ Perkins, p. 198.
49. ^ Perkins, pp. 188, 210, 212.
50. ^ Billboard September 29, 1956. pages 73, 78.
51. ^ [4] Archived Feb 5, 2009, at the Wayback Motorcar
52. ^ "Town Hall Party". hillbilly-music.com. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
53. ^ [v] ^{[ dead link ]}
54. ^ [vi] Archived July 17, 2012, at annal.today
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56. ^ Naylor, p. 142.
57. ^ The Beatles "Glad All Over". "The Beatles Lyrics - Glad All Over". Oldielyrics.com. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
58. ^ "Carl Perkins - Big Bad Dejection / Lone Heart - Brunswick - United kingdom - 05909". 45cat. Retrieved Baronial 17, 2015.
59. ^ Perkins, pp. 309–310.
60. ^ "Restless - Carl Perkins". Rockabillyeurope.com. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
61. ^ "Kraft Music Hall: Johnny Greenbacks ... On The Road Episode Summary". Tv set.com. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
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64. ^ "RAB Hall of Fame: Carl Perkins". Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Retrieved January eighteen, 2007.
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66. ^ Boppin' the Blues. Columbia CS9981 (1969).
67. ^ ^{a b} Mike Kovacich (April 17, 2003). "MACCA-News: McCartney to Administer Perkins's Music". Macca-central.com. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
68. ^ Naylor, p. 145.
69. ^ "Tug Of State of war". Jpgr.co.great britain. Retrieved November 25, 2011.
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72. ^ "Carl Perkins/Various Artists: Go True cat Go!". Theband.hiof.no. Retrieved Nov 25, 2011.
73. ^ [7] ^{[ expressionless link ]}
74. ^ Tennessee Historical Commission
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76. ^ Perkins, p. 78.
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References [edit]

• Guterman, Jimmy. (1998.) "Carl Perkins". The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, ed. New York: Oxford Academy Printing. pp. 412–413.
• Pareles, Jon (January 20, 1998). "Carl Perkins Dies at 65; Rockabilly Pioneer Wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'". New York Times. p. B12. Retrieved December 4, 2009.
• Perkins, Carl; McGee, David (1996). Go, Cat, Go!. New York: Hyperion Press. ISBN0-7868-6073-1. OCLC 32895064. .

External links [edit]

• The Carl Perkins Story at IMDb
• Carl Perkins biography
• Perkins's page at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
• Carl Perkins bio at Rolling Stone
• Carl Perkins Biography at The History of Rock

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