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Sun Aug 15, 2021, 01:52 AM Aug 2021

Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins



- "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins from Man in Black: Live in Denmark.

Carl Lee Perkins (April 9, 1932 – Jan. 19, 1998) was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".

According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed."

Perkins's songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton which further established his place in the history of popular music. Paul McCartney said "if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles."...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Perkins
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