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Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – January 19, 1998) [1] [2] was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. A rockabilly great and pioneer of rock and roll, he began his recording career at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954.
Jan 20, 1998 · Carl Perkins, the pioneering rockabilly singer, songwriter and guitarist who wrote ''Blue Suede Shoes,'' died yesterday in Jackson, Tenn., where he lived. He was 65. He died of...
Apr 19, 2024 · Carl Perkins (born April 9, 1932, Tiptonville, Tennessee, U.S.—died January 19, 1998, Jackson, Tennessee) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist whose song “Blue Suede Shoes” was a touchstone of the rockabilly musical movement of the 1950s.
Jan 20, 1998 · Rockabilly legend Carl Perkins died Monday morning from complications brought on by three strokes he suffered late last year. Perkins, hailed as one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll, originally...
Carl Perkins performs some of his greatest hits as part of a ten hour live country/blues/rock extravaganza, recorded in front of 70,000 people at the giant Pontiac Silverdome.
Carl Perkins transformed his humble sharecropper roots into jumping, jiving rockabilly hits. His song “Blue Suede Shoes” launched a label and a movement.
Jun 20, 2023 · Blue Suede shoes gave the world their first glimpse at Carl Perkins’ unique mix of country music, rhythm, and blues, pop, and rock and roll. Carl Perkins was popular with black as well as white audiences and he was the first white country singer to make it onto the predominantly black R&B charts.
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