Carl Perkins
American guitarist and singer-songwriterWikipedia
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Oct 28, 2026
Paul LongGUEST
As you were all talking, I was just thinking about how I think you started with this, Robert.
Paul LongGUEST
The Beals themselves were great mediators and started by, you know, all of those cover versions are both a tribute to Stuff that was formative for them, but also took some incredible tangents, you know, it's not just Elvis It's not just Carl Perkins.
Paul LongGUEST
It's these kind of contemporary bands that were you know, all girls or Certainly contemporary R&B show songs.
Paul LongGUEST
What have you it confounds any attempt to just boil it down to a template and that kind of eclecticism but also their own filter of quality interpretation for right or wrong is itself, I think, quite instructive about how you might learn from popular culture or learn with it, right? Which is, again, why we take it seriously or at least afford it seriousness.
speaker_0HOST
He was born in Louisiana in 1935, and he became one of the architects of early rock and roll and rockabilly music as an artist at Sun Records, of course, had Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, etc., He was nicknamed the killer for his blistering, high-energy piano playing and his stage presence, and he skyrocketed to global fame in the late 1950s with hits like Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire.
speaker_0HOST
He was a member of the Million Dollar Quartet, as they were called, alongside Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins.
speaker_0HOST
and that cemented his legacy as being a pioneer who merged boogie-woogie piano with gospel and rhythm and blues.
speaker_0HOST
His rise was abruptly canceled, as they say these days.
Drew Ryder SmithGUEST
But Sam at least gave him a shot, you know.
Drew Ryder SmithGUEST
So, yeah, so Sam goes on to establish Sun Records and, you know, finds Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins and those guys and he puts them on the map and...
Drew Ryder SmithGUEST
Of course, by the time that all of that has exploded, Sam is financially, he's doing pretty well.
Drew Ryder SmithGUEST
And so he went back to his hometown in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and he built a little cluster of radio stations there.
CarmenPANELIST
Mike.
CarmenPANELIST
Carl Perkins.
CarmenPANELIST
Elvis Presley.
CarmenPANELIST
Galvin.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
George Harrison didn't play blues solos until much later, blue bending solos.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
He played mostly in the image of his heroes, Carl Perkins and Chet Atkins, who played melody all the time.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze is another melodic guitar player, primarily.
Elvis CostelloGUEST
And there's something to be said of it, really in the years by Steely Dan.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
And through that one front door...
Karl SorochinskiHOST
In well under a decade, walked Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Roy Orbison.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
Blues, country, gospel, rhythm and blues all squeezed into the same little box until something blew.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
Sam Phillips did not invent the ingredients.
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Karl SorochinskiHOST
Most of all, the sale bought him time to record the people who were already lined up at his door.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
Here is what the Elvis money paid for, and here are the last three records on our listening spine.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
Carl Perkins was a Tennessee country singer who had come up through the honky-tonks.
Karl SorochinskiHOST
There are two stories about where blue suede shoes came from.
Lee RockerGUEST
And somehow I found that music.
Lee RockerGUEST
And that led me down that pike to rockabilly music, to Presley's Sun Sessions and Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash.
Lee RockerGUEST
I remember my grandfather had some Johnny Cash records.
Lee RockerGUEST
And we kind of bonded over, I think, maybe being misfits a bit and also finding this music together from a pretty young age.
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Buzz KnightHOST
Who would you take a walk with, anybody, living or dead? Who would it be and why and where, maybe? That's a great question.
Buzz KnightHOST
And
Lee RockerGUEST
as far as someone who was a friend who's gone and musician would be Carl Perkins himself.
Lee RockerGUEST
I miss Carl.
Gene BaxterGUEST
And when Rick Rubin did that production on the first of the American Recordings albums, they tried to sell it to Alternative, and we had the opportunity to have Johnny Cash in on the show.
Gene BaxterGUEST
And you shake his hand and you go, man, this guy was there at the beginning, right? This guy is right there with Elvis Presley and with Carl Perkins and all those guys in Memphis.
Gene BaxterGUEST
I just can't believe I'm meeting him.
Gene BaxterGUEST
Like, where do you start with a legend like that, right? So he definitely comes to mind.
Gene BaxterGUEST
And when Rick Rubin did that production on the first of the American Recordings albums, they tried to sell it to Alternative, and we had the opportunity to have Johnny Cash in on the show.
Gene BaxterGUEST
And you shake his hand and you go, man, this guy was there at the beginning, right? This guy is right there with Elvis Presley and with Carl Perkins and all those guys in Memphis.
Gene BaxterGUEST
I just can't believe I'm meeting him.
Gene BaxterGUEST
Like, where do you start with a legend like that, right? So he definitely comes to mind.
Paul HowarthHOST
It's just funny, isn't it? I don't know.
Tony HarrisHOST
It reminded me of the Beatles, well, it's Carl Perkins, isn't it? Matchbox.
Tony HarrisHOST
Ringo gets it and it's, let me be your little dog till your big dog comes.
Tony HarrisHOST
But what a song.
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