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Carl Perkins: Discovering Carl Perkins - Eastview, Tennessee 1952 - 53 (LP, 10inch & CD, Ltd.)

  • 1-LP 10“ vinyl with extensive 16-page booklet (21x21 cms). 9 tracks.
  • Historic, early recordings by rockabilly pioneer discovered after 70 years!
  • Free CD enclosed!
Carl Perkins, one of the founding fathers of rock & roll, began his legendary recording career for Sun Records in 1954. After two fairly undistinguished hillbilly outings, he created Blue Suede Shoes, which changed the face of American popular music. It was the first song to top all three charts at once: pop, hillbilly and R&B.
 
Producer and music historian, Shawn Pitts and Hank Davis just made a startling discovery that will rewrite rockabilly history. Carl Perkins recorded at least two years earlier in a small studio in rural Tennessee. Those records make it clear that he was far from the clueless hillbilly who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the rockabilly revolution. In fact, one of the four songs he recorded was Good Rocking Tonight, perhaps two years earlier than Elvis Presley cut it at Sun! 

In October 2019 Bear Family Records will release ’Discovering Carl Perkins’. It contains for the first time anywhere, these historic, unreleased recordings -- complete and remastered for the best possible sound -- along with several rare outtakes from Carl´s earliest Sun period (first time on vinyl). They will appear on a ten-inch LP that includes previously unseen vintage photographs and detailed liner notes about the music, and how the local culture gave rise to these historic, one-of-a-kind recordings. It´s quite a landmark event for those  interested in early rock & roll history, Sun Records, Carl Perkins and the birth of rockabilly. 

Side A
1. Good Rockin’ Tonight (released for the very first time!)
2. There’s Been A Change in Me (released for the very first time!)
3. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O-Dee (released for the very first time!)
4. Devil’s Dream (released for the very first time!)
Side B
1. Gone Gone Gone (orig unissued- alt 1)
2. What You Doing When You’re Crying (orig uniss-vers 1) 
3. You Can’t Make Love To Somebody (orig uniss-vers 5) 
4. Sure To Fall (Sun 235-orig unissued-alt 1) 
Bonus track:
5. Perkins Wiggle / Dixie Bop (orig uniss - vers 1)

Article properties:Carl Perkins: Discovering Carl Perkins - Eastview, Tennessee 1952 - 53 (LP, 10inch & CD, Ltd.)

  • Interpret: Carl Perkins

  • Album titlle: Discovering Carl Perkins - Eastview, Tennessee 1952 - 53 (LP, 10inch & CD, Ltd.)

  • Genre Rock'n'Roll

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Preiscode BAFX
  • Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
  • Record Grading Mint (M)
  • Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
  • Edition 2 Numbered Edition
  • Vinyl record size LP (10 inch)
  • Artikelart LP (10 inch)

  • EAN: 5397102140075

  • weight in Kg 0.3
Perkins, Carl - Discovering Carl Perkins - Eastview, Tennessee 1952 - 53 (LP, 10inch & CD, Ltd.) LP (10 inch) 1
01Good Rockin’ TonightCarl Perkins
02There’s Been A Change in MeCarl Perkins
03Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O-DeeCarl Perkins
04Devil’s DreamCarl Perkins
05Gone Gone GoneCarl Perkins
06What You Doing When You’re CryingCarl Perkins
07You Can’t Make Love To SomebodyCarl Perkins
08Sure To FallCarl Perkins
09Perkins Wiggle / Dixie BopCarl 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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Customer evaluation for "Discovering Carl Perkins - Eastview, Tennessee 1952 - 53 (LP, 10inch & CD, Ltd.)"
17 Feb 2022

Rockabilly fans thank you!

Never before have we heard recordings by Carl Perkins that predate his records on Sun/Flip. Our big thanks to Bear Family for sharing these with fans.

12 Jul 2020

A little pearl in your collection.

Early Carl Perkins songs. Very good previously unrealeased music. Always authentic Rock&Roll

9 Dec 2019

Sensation

FAZIT: Der sensationelle Fund von vier Song-Raritäten des Rock'n'Roll-Vaters CARL PERKINS, die noch vor seiner Erfolgszeit bei Sun Records in einem kleinen Studio in Tennessee entstanden und bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt 70 Jahre lang verschollen waren. Bear Family Records veröffentlicht „Discovering CARL PERKINS – Eastview, Tennessee 1952-53“ nun in absolut angemessener und um mehrere Outtakes erweiterter, remasterter Form auf einer LP im weißen 10inch/25cm-Vinyl und ergänzt diese Ausgabe noch um eine CD mit den digitalisierten Aufnahmen und ein 16-seitiges Begleitheft in Single-Größe!

26 Nov 2019

Good Rockin' Every Night!

Carl was a leader in rock n roll and rockabilly and this record proves it. The only bad thing about this is that there aren't more tracks. Amazing!

11 Nov 2019

Carl Perkins 10 inch

bon enregistrement

11 Nov 2019

Carl Perkins 10 inch

bon enregistrement

7 Oct 2019

Wieder ein tolles Bear Family Paket :-)

Brav gewartet, ist die vorbestellte Ware pünktlich Anfang Oktober 2019 eingetroffen.
Die Bear Family Qualität hat wieder nicht enttäuscht. Alles in Topform. Eine schwere, weiße, numerierte 10" Vinyl. Sehr wertiges Gefühl. Dazu die kleine Story aus guter alter Zeit, beginnend auf Coverrückseite und fortgeführt im netten Booklet. Carls Musikhistorie für die Ohren natürlich nicht zu vergessen :-)

Thank you very much Bear Family! Everything very nice!

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Tracklist
Perkins, Carl - Discovering Carl Perkins - Eastview, Tennessee 1952 - 53 (LP, 10inch & CD, Ltd.) LP (10 inch) 1
01 Good Rockin’ Tonight
02 There’s Been A Change in Me
03 Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O-Dee
04 Devil’s Dream
05 Gone Gone Gone
06 What You Doing When You’re Crying
07 You Can’t Make Love To Somebody
08 Sure To Fall
09 Perkins Wiggle / Dixie Bop