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Carl Perkins: Carl Perkins - Carl Rocks

1-CD-Album Digipak (6-plated) with 48-page booklet, 31 tracks. Playing time approx. 79 mns.

Twenty-nine rockin' songs from across Carl Perkins' career. Sun...of course, Decca, Columbia, and Mercury. The songs include Blue Suede Shoes...of course, and much MUCH more. Honey Don't,
Put Your Cat Clothes On, Big Bad Blues, Where The Rio De Rosa Flows, EP Express (Carl Perkins' tribute to Elvis), Restless, and so many more!

Carl Perkins was rockabilly music. In fact, there was a time in the early 1960s when the only rockabilly you could buy on microgroove was Carl Perkins’ Dance Album (oh yes, and a couple of Elvis LPs). The Beatles were not alone in being able to replicate every note on that LP, and they later recorded three of its twelve tracks, Honey Don’t, Matchbox, and Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby. Plus, of course, they performed Carl Perkins’ signature hit, Blue Suede Shoes, in concert.

Royalty income from the Beatles aside, Carl Perkins had just one really big hit, Blue Suede Shoes. Carl Perkins managed to hang a career on that one record, yet the flood of tributes that accompanied his passing in January 1998 would lead you to think that one of the era’s biggest hitmakers had died. But in a way, Carl Perkins was one of the era’s giants, if not in terms of charted records then certainly in other ways. Carl Perkins was one of the first to sing lead, write the songs, and play lead guitar. And he was one of the first to bring a hillbilly feel to R&B or an R&B feel to hillbilly, thereby creating rockabilly, and thereby creating rock ‘n’ roll.

Incredibly, this is the first full career retrospective of Carl Perkins. The very best of the groundbreaking Sun recordings, the best of the late ‘50s/ early ‘60s Columbia recordings, the cream of the ultra-rare Decca sides, and the later Columbia and Mercury recordings…plus two previously unissued tracks produced by Bill Lloyd (including Carl Perkins' version of John Hiatt’s Memphis In The Meantime).

Many Carl Perkins fans have decided that they must have it all, in which case we have our two boxed sets (‘Classic Carl Perkins’ [BCD 15494 EH] and ‘Back On Top’ [BCD 16422 DI]), plus a single CD of Dollie recordings, ‘Country Boy’s Dream’ [BCD 15593 AH] and a single CD of soundtrack recordings with Johnny Cash, ‘I Walk The Line’/’Little Fauss & Big Halsy’ [BCD 16130 AH]. Get all those, and you have everything that Carl Perkins recorded between 1954 and 1975. Get this CD and you have a stunning overview of one of the great careers in popular music, plus two recordings you won’t find anywhere else!

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Perkins, Carl - Carl Perkins - Carl Rocks CD 1
01MatchboxCarl Perkins
02Everybody's Trying To Be My BabyCarl Perkins
03Honey Don't (take 3)Carl Perkins
04Put Your Cat Clothes OnCarl Perkins
05Dixie FriedCarl Perkins
06You Can Do No WrongCarl Perkins
07Boppin' The BluesCarl Perkins
08Your True LoveCarl Perkins
09Blue Suede Shoes (take 2)Carl Perkins
10Her Love Rubbed OffCarl Perkins
11CaldoniaCarl Perkins
12Gone, Gone, GoneCarl Perkins
13Right String, Wrong Yo-YoCarl Perkins
14All Mama's ChildrenCarl Perkins
15Glad All OverCarl Perkins
16Where The Rio De Rosa FlowsCarl Perkins
17That's All RightCarl Perkins
18Rockin' Record HopCarl Perkins
19Sittin' On Top Of The WorldCarl Perkins
20Because You're MineCarl Perkins
21Jive After FiveCarl Perkins
22Honey, 'cause I Love YouCarl Perkins
23Big Bad BluesCarl Perkins
24Lonely HeartCarl Perkins
25I Wouldn't Have YouCarl Perkins
26RestlessCarl Perkins
27Honky Tonk SongCarl Perkins
28The E.P. ExpressCarl Perkins
29Big Bad BluesCarl Perkins
Carl Perkins When Carl Perkins walked into 706 Union Avenue in the Fall of 1954, he was as... more
"Carl Perkins"

Carl Perkins

When Carl Perkins walked into 706 Union Avenue in the Fall of 1954, he was as country as a haystack. Carl had been hearing Elvis Presley's music on the radio for the past month or so and he knew that Sam Phillips' fledgling Sun label was the source of those sounds.

Carl figured that he and his brothers had been making the same kind of hillbilly bop music in the bars back in Jackson, Tennessee for close to a year now. If Presley could record and become famous, why couldn't he? Carl was right about one thing. The roots of the rockabilly revolution that had only recently begun were smouldering beneath the surface in Carl's guitar playing and songwriting. But he was very wrong if he thought his lanky and angular country boy appearance could bring teenage girls all over America to a swoon. Presley was beautiful and sexy and vaguely dangerous looking. Carl was a married man with a balding pate and the start of a serious drinking problem. The latter was fixable, but the first two weren't.

 

Sun records owner Sam Phillips remembers exactly what he thought the first time he met Carl Perkins. "I looked at him and said to myself, 'There's one of the greatest plowhands in the world.'" Phillips meant it, at least partly, as a compliment. What he saw was a mile-wide expanse of country soul. He hoped that someday he could coax that soul out of Carl in the studio. It took a while, but he was not to be disappointed.

For his part, Carl was proud of the fact that he was independently moving in the same direction as Presley. In fact, Blue Moon Of Kentucky had been part of Carl's repertoire in the Jackson honkytonks well before Sun 209 was released. If nothing else, it meant that Sam would not have to invent rock 'n' roll a second time with Carl Perkins. The man was well on his way to a private musical revolution.

Somewhat against his better judgement, Sam invited Carl and his brothers Clayton and Jay, along with drummer W. S. Holland, into his tiny studio for an audition. He later recalled thinking that he feared breaking the heart of that big old country boy by rejecting him without a hearing. Carl paced nervously as Holland unpacked his drum kit. Phillips did what he could to keep the singer calm, although experience had proven that some tension could be an asset in the studio.

Carl began by running through the band's repertoire which, not surprisingly, consisted of just about everything on the country charts. Bands in the local honkytonks were expected to be human jukeboxes. The audiences knew the tunes and it provided some novelty to hear them live rather than blaring through the smoke and noise on a jukebox. Mostly it was Carl who handled the vocal chores, although his older brother Jay occasionally took over the microphone. It was the band's job to play what local hard working drinkers wanted to hear in 1953 and early '54 – which was just about anything by Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Webb Pierce.

As Carl eagerly ran through his song list, Sam Phillips, one of the world's earliest and most canny record producers, encouraged him to keep going. He knew what he wanted to hear and it wasn't a cover version of a Nashville hit. He couldn't tell Carl exactly what he had in mind, but he knew this wasn't it. Given the budget at the Memphis Recording Service, Phillips sure wasn't going to waste valuable tape on Lovesick Blues or Always Late. The only thing Sam Phillips heard that intrigued him that first day was a song called Turn Around. Phillips liked two things about it. It provided a showcase for Carl's soulful voice, and – more importantly – it was an original. Because Carl had written it, Phillips could publish it. That meant retaining a few all-important extra pennies on the sale of every record. Original compositions were not only a way to avoid paying money out, they were also an investment in the future. If any of these songs actually became a hit, Phillips (and Carl) would make some money on airplays. And, better yet, maybe somebody else would have to pay Sam for the right to make his own record of Carl's song.

The audition went well enough for Sam Phillips to invite the band back,

a gesture that meant the world to Carl, and fired his enthusiasm. "Keep writing," he told Carl. "There's no sense recording other folks' music. Let's hear what you can do. Bring me some more songs you've written." It didn't take much prodding to engage the songwriter in Carl. The honkytonks gave him no real incentive to create his own music. Dancers and revellers simply wanted to hear what they knew. They tolerated rather than encouraged Carl's originality. Now, Carl was faced with a famous record producer – the man who had discovered Elvis Presley – asking him to write his own music so that just maybe it might appear on one of those yellow Sun records.

 Sam Phillips decided to place Carl with his two resident country producers: Quinton Claunch and Bill Cantrell. This freed Phillips up to get on with other business in his hectic life and assured that someone would be responsible for shepherding this raw young singer into a level of competence that might be worth recording. It also indicated that, at this point, Phillips saw Carl Perkins primarily as a country artist. Presley notwithstanding, Sun was still a country label. Phillips was weaning himself away from the blues artists he had begun with in favor of the hillbillies. Nobody could be sure that this Presley thing would last, or that there were more Presleys out there. And so Carl Perkins went to work on his first single record.

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The group practiced throughout the Fall and on into the early winter of 1954, Carl eagerly making the drive west from Jackson to Memphis, hoping each time that they'd finally nail a usable take. On January 22, 1955 they hit paydirt. The 'hillbilly weeper' Turn Around was committed to tape along with a usable version of another song Carl had written called Movie Magg. The pairing of a dirge with an uptempo rhythm number was a good way for Phillips to hedge his bets. Movie Magg was a clever song. Its title was a pun on a very popular form of mass market entertainment – a movie magazine – that housewives and teenage girls gobbled up each month to read about their favorite stars and heartthrobs. The 'Magg' in Perkins' song was short for Maggie – a girl he could only see on Saturday night when he took her to the movies or, in Carl's very rural lyric, a 'picture show.' The song talked about "Breaking new ground the whole week long" and "polishing up his old horse Beck." They were wonderful images, but they made it clear that Carl was singing to a very different audience than Chuck Berry was setting his sights on. The entire proceedings were certifiably country, although on Movie Magg there are rudimentary indications that Carl was capable of taking the whole thing up to another level. Sam Phillips heard it too but, for now, he was willing to watch and wait.

 

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Tracklist
Perkins, Carl - Carl Perkins - Carl Rocks CD 1
01 Matchbox
02 Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
03 Honey Don't (take 3)
04 Put Your Cat Clothes On
05 Dixie Fried
06 You Can Do No Wrong
07 Boppin' The Blues
08 Your True Love
09 Blue Suede Shoes (take 2)
10 Her Love Rubbed Off
11 Caldonia
12 Gone, Gone, Gone
13 Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo
14 All Mama's Children
15 Glad All Over
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17 That's All Right
18 Rockin' Record Hop
19 Sittin' On Top Of The World
20 Because You're Mine
21 Jive After Five
22 Honey, 'cause I Love You
23 Big Bad Blues
24 Lonely Heart
25 I Wouldn't Have You
26 Restless
27 Honky Tonk Song
28 The E.P. Express
29 Big Bad Blues