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Carl Perkins: 'Blue Suede Shoes'
Profile by Colin Escott, The History of Rock, 1981
One song rocketed Carl Perkins to stardom ...

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Carl Perkins
Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, December 1968
"IF IT WEREN'T FOR the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song," said Carl Perkins with a comic dolefulness. He had just put ...

Boss Blues Bopper: Carl Perkins
Retrospective by Bill Millar, Cream, July 1971
Kilburn High Street. November 2nd 1964. 10.15 p.m. Half a dozen youths are jigging about and clapping their hands. Not just to keep them warm but ...

Carl Perkins
Retrospective by Martin Hawkins, Let It Rock, February 1975
And when I hear that double-eagle guitar
Makes me think of Carl Perkins when he was a star,
Makes me think I spent some of my nights ...

Carl Perkins' Family Affair
Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, February 1979
"WELL IT'S one for the money/Two for the show/I'd dance/But I'm too old," a beaming, bouncing forty-six-year-old Carl Perkins mocked from the Bottom Line stage as ...

The Million Dollar Quartet
Essay by Dave Marsh, Musician, June 1981
WE USUALLY think of Elvis Presley simply stepping into Sun Studios in Memphis, in answer to Sam Phillips' call, and walking out a few days later, ...

Perkins, Presley et al: The Complete Million Dollar Session
Review by Bill Holdship, Creem, June 1988
TOTALLY UNEXPECTED, totally out of the blue, and just when you'd almost given up on hearing anything this exciting again... ...

Carl Perkins: Born To Rock
Review by Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, July 1989
BORN TO ROCK, the first album from rockabilly legend Carl Perkins in quite some time, is a respectable if not an especially remarkable work. ...

Carl Perkins with David McGee: Go, Cat, Go! – The Life and Times of Carl Perkins, The King of Rockabilly
Book Review by Tom Graves, The Washington Post, June 1996
RECORD PRODUCER Sam Phillips, who owned the tiny Sun record label in Memphis, has been hounded for years by journalists and biographers about his decision to ...

Carl Perkins - Let It Bleed
Profile by David Dalton, Gadfly, July 1998
IF THIS WERE the world it ought to be — that fantasy rockabilly kingdom dream up at Sun Records in the mid-fifties of flash, trash and ...