Sun Records
The Sun Records Label first began to appear on records in the 1950s, featuring songs by new recording artists whose names soon became legends, and whose electrifying sound revolutionized the music industry: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and many more. Inevitably, Sun Records became a legend all its own: it is, after all, where rock ‘n’ roll was born. In 1969, Mercury Records label producer Shelby Singleton purchased the Sun label from Sam Phillips and moved the company to Nashville, TN where it has been operating since.www.sunrecords.com
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Nov 1, 2026
Larry KratkaHOST
Out on the set with something from way back in 1956, Carl Perkins and his number 10 hit, Dixie Fries.
Larry KratkaHOST
The version you heard was recorded at the famous Sun Records Studios in Memphis, Tennessee in 1956.
Larry KratkaHOST
It was released as a 45 RPM single and a 78 RPM single.
Larry KratkaHOST
Carl Perkins decided to re-record the song again in 1973, and this time he called it Let's Get Dixie Fried.
CJ KillmerHOST
I'm sure it's fine, but I generally don't like historical biopic films, and while I like Kurt Russell as an actor...
CJ KillmerHOST
And obviously I like John Carpenter and I do like some of Elvis's earlier music, especially the really early Sun Records stuff.
CJ KillmerHOST
I have to say a lot of his later stuff is just too cheesy for me.
CJ KillmerHOST
So I don't know.
CJHOST
I'm sure it's fine, but I generally don't like historical biopic films, and while I like Kurt Russell as an actor...
CJHOST
And obviously I like John Carpenter and I do like some of Elvis's earlier music, especially the really early Sun Records stuff.
CJHOST
I have to say a lot of his later stuff is just too cheesy for me.
CJHOST
So I don't know.
KeithHOST
am here So Ray Smith was born in 1934 in Kentucky.
KeithHOST
After the military, he formed a band called the Rock and Roll Boys in 1956 and eventually signed with Sam Phillips at Sun Records in Memphis.
KeithHOST
It is the same label as Elvis, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis.
KeithHOST
I've actually been
Michael MurrayHOST
Although thematically, this is, you know, is very different.
Michael MurrayHOST
And it has to do with Sam Phillips of Sun Records.
Michael MurrayHOST
when he was producing Jerry G. Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins.
Michael MurrayHOST
And Mr. Phillips said that the first one that got the gold record, he would give him a Cadillac.
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Baby, we'll ride in style.
Adam YasHOST
And if you take a tour of Sun Records, the studio, which I did when we took a trip to Nashville, I believe it's in Memphis, you can see the actual...
Adam YasHOST
Well, was
David YasHOST
it in Nashville or was it in
David YasHOST
Serendipitous.
David YasHOST
Serendipitous.
David YasHOST
Sun Records is in Memphis.
David YasHOST
Yes.
Del VillarrealHOST
good place to rock man plug your uh guitar into one of those tombstone amps man and you'll be knocking them dead surfer jets by suggestion that's a live cut from the new album out on the high tide record label those guys know how to party indeed that was satan's holiday i dig it man those cool gals from toronto they can wail and swing man with the best of them love the surfer jets thank you for that great suggestion that goes out to missouri matt We had Roy Orbison and the Roses, the backup singers there, from 1957.
Del VillarrealHOST
This actually got released as a 45 on the Sun Record label.
Del VillarrealHOST
That was Devil Doll.
Del VillarrealHOST
For all you spooky mannequin lovers out there, we also enjoyed the trailer to the exploitation horror movie Devil's Nightmare.
James WoodsGUEST
And it's just, I mean, when you talk about Americana, it's funny.
James WoodsGUEST
I think, I mean, it's passed now so I can talk about it, but Johnny Phillips is our distributor, Selectivates, and he's the nephew of Sam Phillips, the great Sam Phillips, who, of course, discovered Elvis and Sun Records and so on.
James WoodsGUEST
And he was...
James WoodsGUEST
They do 50 to 150 albums a month that they distribute.
Michael MurrayHOST
Also, Demonic Position mentions both Sam Phillips and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Michael MurrayHOST
Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records, and Jerry Lee Lewis, of course, a very famous musician, piano player.
Michael MurrayHOST
And they're both going to turn up probably on more than one occasion in Drive-By Trucker songs going forward.
Michael MurrayHOST
But this is the first time we meet them.
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Michael MurrayHOST
Matt Lane is on drums.
Michael MurrayHOST
And the cover art is by Jim Stacy, who also did the cover art for the previous record.
Michael MurrayHOST
and max you might have noticed that this album was dedicated to three people the singer-songwriter arthur alexander uh sam phillips who founded sun records elvis um where elvis you know gets his start and then jerry wechsler who is a producer worked for atlantic records for a long time big supporter of muscle shoals and also the person who coined the phrase rhythm and blues to replace that on the charts instead of race records and i thought that was important note to make there i think that Starting with Bulldozers and Dirt as the first song on this record, I think it can't be ignored.
Michael MurrayHOST
I think it couldn't be any more complicated, this song.
Bev JohnsonHOST
Then when I left there, I worked for Sam Phillips, Johnny, who y'all know, who discovered Elvis.
Bev JohnsonHOST
Sam Phillips had Sun Records, where he had two radio stations right here on Mount Moriah.
Bev JohnsonHOST
We Radio, which was All Talk, and then WLVS, and I'm going to tell you who worked there, my boy, GK, George Klein.
Johnnie WalkerGUEST
Oh,
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