Carl Perkins

Carl Perkins

Carl Perkins

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Greatest Hits Vol 1. album art
  • Greatest Hits Vol 1.
  • February 2025
  • • 14 Songs

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Jive After Five
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Movie Magg
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Turn Around
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Let The Juke Box Keep Playing On
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Gone, Gone, Gone

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Carl Perkins

Biography

One of the quintessential rockabilly performers, Carl Perkins was a singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose humble sharecropping roots informed his twangy, boogie rhythm style and innovative blend of country and R&B. Along with Elvis Presley, Perkins helped define the early rockabilly sound and put Memphis' Sun Records on the map in the process with classic songs like "Blue Suede Shoes," "Matchbox," "Honey, Don't," and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby," all included on 1957's Dance Album. While he was slow to gain the pop culture status of some of his Million Dollar Quartet p...
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