This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...
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A rock ‘n' roll legend died on this day in 1998
Rockabilly king Carl Perkins officially hung up his blue suede shoes on this day in 1998, leaving behind a legacy that paved ...
CARL PERKINS: The King of Rockabilly. By Jeff Apter. Citadel Press. 240 pages. $29. Carl Perkins, the future king of rockabilly music, was the son of sharecroppers. He and his brothers grew up picking ...
"CARL PERKINS: THE KING OF ROCKABILLY" by Jeff Apter (Citadel, 240 pages, $29). Carl Perkins is an unexpected choice of subject for the prolific musician biographer Jeff Apter, who lays out the life ...
Perkins' singing, guitar playing and songwriting brought together country and rock 'n' roll. He recorded at Sun Records, the label that also launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, ...
Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of the originators of rockabilly. Perkins' singing, guitar playing and songwriting brought together country and rock 'n' roll. He recorded at Sun Records, the label ...
Perkins, who died in 1998, 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 spoke to Fresh Air in 1996.
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