Born in 1932 in Lake City, Tenn., Carl Perkins was one of the original rockers with the Sun Records label -- on hand in Memphis in the 1950s with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Johnny ...

August 1, 2003 • He wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He also wrote the songs "Matchbox," "Honey Don't ...

We continue our tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Carl Perkins was one of the performers Phillips discovered and recorded in the 1950s. Perkins ...

MEMPHIS – Growing up in Chicago, Jonathan Cain listened to the music of Carl Perkins on AM radio stations. It was all the inspiration he needed to propel his musical career. Cain, the keyboard player ...

Carl Perkins–a sharecropper’s son who learned music on a guitar fashioned from a cigar box and a broomstick–was a rockabilly pioneer, influencing the likes of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, and ...

Rock and roll legend Carl Perkins died on Monday morning, January 19, at 10:30 a.m. of complications developed following a series of three strokes that he had suffered at the end of 1997. He was 65.

In the 1956 song “Dixie Fried,” Carl Perkins sings about a razor-toting rebel rouser named Dan who storms a honky-tonk on the ...