Classic Fifties Sun rockabilly from Carl Perkins - one of Rockabilly's originators. Fascinating listening.
1.Caldonia (take 37) 2.Put your cat clothes on (take 23) 3.Put your cat clothes on (take 44) 4.Your true love (take 42) 5.Wrong yo yo (take 19) 6.Her love rubbed off (take 38) 7.Be honest with me (take 41) 8.Somebody tell me (take 32) 9.Dixie fried (take 21) 10.That don't move me (take 26) 11.Matchbox (take 43) 12.Sweethearts or strangers (take 40) 13.You can do no wrong (take 39) 14.Pink pedal pushers (take 29) 15.Pink pedal pushers (take 52) 16.You can't make love to somebody (take 6)
Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins was a Tennessee sharecropper's son whose first guitar was made from a cigar box and a broomhandle and whose famous 'Blue Suede Shoes' was written on a potato sack. Carl Perkins was famed as one of the proponents of rockabilly music, a cross between r&b and country music that came out of Sun Records in Memphis in the mid-1950s. He also wrote some of the top hit records in rock'n'roll and country music. A near-fatal traffic accident in 1956, coupled with alcoholism and Elvis Presley's rise, kept him from achieving the kind of stardom some thought was his due. Carl Perkins wrote and recorded 'Blue Suede Shoes' in 1956, and his version sold two million copies before Elvis Presley's rendition became a hit. He topped the pop, r&b and country charts all at the same time with it. He also wrote the rockabilly standard 'Dixie Fried' and the songs 'Honey Don't', 'Matchbox' and 'Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby', which were later covered by the Beatles. The son of a tenant farmer, Carl Lee Perkins grew up picking cotton, and was fascinated by the gospel music sung by blacks working in the cotton fields. He would also go behind the family chicken house and pretend he was singing on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. At the age of seven, he began playing a guitar that his father had made from a cigar box, broomstick and baling wire. He wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' after hearing a boy telling his prom date not to step on his blue suede shoes. Carl Perkins went back to his home in a housing project and wrote the song on a brown potato sack. Shortly after recording the song, Carl Perkins was hurt in a traffic accident and spent a year recovering. It not only prevented him from capitalising on his fame, but also marked the start of a long struggle with alcoholism.... He said he finally overcame the addiction after throwing his last bottle of whisky into the Pacific Ocean near Encino, California, in 1967.
Classic Fifties Sun rockabilly from Carl Perkins - one of Rockabilly's originators. Fascinating listening.