Post Description

Bear Family Records - BCD 15246 - Carl Perkins - Up Through The Years 1954-1957



While some ill-informed revisionist writers of rock history would like to dismiss Carl Perkins as a rockabilly artist who became a one-hit wonder at the dawn of rock & roll's early years, a deeper look at his music and career reveals much more. A quick look at his songwriting portfolio shows that he composed "Daddy Sang Bass" for Johnny Cash, "I Was So Wrong" for Patsy Cline, and "Let Me Tell You About Love" for the Judds, big hits and classics all. His influence as the quintessential rockabilly artist has played a big part in the development of every generation of rockers to come down the pike since, from the Beatles' George Harrison to the Stray Cats' Brian Setzer to a myriad of others in the country field as well. His guitar style is the other twin peak -- along with that of Elvis' lead man Scotty Moore -- of rockabilly's instrumental center, so pervasive that modern-day players automatically gravitate toward it when called upon to deliver the style, not even realizing that they're playing Perkins licks, sometimes note for note. As a singer, his interpretation of country ballads is every bit as fine as his better-known rockers. And within the framework of the best of his music is a strong sense of family and roots, all of which trace straight back to his humble beginnings. 

 He was born to sharecroppers Buck and Louise Perkins (misspelled on his birth certificate as "Perkings") and was soon out in the fields picking cotton and living in a shack with his parents, older brother Jay, and his younger brother Clayton. Working alongside blacks in the field every day, it's not at all surprising that when Carl was gifted with a secondhand guitar, he went to a local sharecropper for lessons, learning firsthand the boogie rhythm that he would later build a career on. By his teens, Carl was playing electric guitar and had recruited his brothers Jay on rhythm guitar and Clayton on string bass to become his first band. The Perkins Brothers Band, featuring both Carl and Jay on lead vocals, quickly established itself as the hottest band in the get-hot-or-go-home cutthroat Jackson, TN, honky tonk circuit. It was here that Carl started composing his first songs with an eye toward the future. Watching the dancefloor at all times for a reaction, Perkins kept reshaping these loosely structured songs until he had a completed composition, which would then be finally put to paper. Perkins was already sending demos to New York record companies, who kept rejecting him, sometimes explaining that this strange new hybrid of country with a black rhythm fit no current commercial trend. But once Perkins heard Elvis on the radio, he not only knew what to call it, but knew that there was a record company person who finally understood it and was also willing to gamble in promoting it. That man was Sam Phillips and the record company was Sun Records, and that's exactly where Perkins headed in 1954 to get an audition.




---------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Tracklisting
---------------------------------------------------------------------

   1. (00:01:59) Carl Perkins - Honky Tonk Gal
   2. (00:02:11) Carl Perkins - Movie Magg
   3. (00:03:00) Carl Perkins - Turn Around
   4. (00:02:40) Carl Perkins - Gone, Gone, Gone
   5. (00:02:53) Carl Perkins - Let The Jukebox Keep On Playing
   6. (00:02:40) Carl Perkins - You Can't Make Love To Somebody
   7. (00:02:18) Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes
   8. (00:02:52) Carl Perkins - Honey Don't
   9. (00:03:05) Carl Perkins - Tennessee
  10. (00:02:52) Carl Perkins - Boppin' The Blues
  11. (00:02:09) Carl Perkins - All Mama's Children
  12. (00:02:14) Carl Perkins - Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
  13. (00:02:28) Carl Perkins - Dixie Fried
  14. (00:02:29) Carl Perkins - I'm Sorry, I'm Not Sorry
  15. (00:02:24) Carl Perkins - You Can Do No Wrong
  16. (00:02:10) Carl Perkins - Matchbox
  17. (00:02:46) Carl Perkins - Your True Love
  18. (00:02:52) Carl Perkins - Put Your Cat Clothes On
  19. (00:03:22) Carl Perkins - Only You
  20. (00:02:29) Carl Perkins - Pink Pedal Pushers
  21. (00:02:52) Carl Perkins - That's Right
  22. (00:01:59) Carl Perkins - Lend Me Your Comb
  23. (00:01:43) Carl Perkins - Glad All Over
  24. (00:02:35) Carl Perkins - Right String Baby (Wrong Yo-Yo)

Playing Time.........: 01:01:02
Total Size...........: 140,22 MB



Er word 10 % pars mee gepost moet voldoende zijn.

Hou het netjes, want ik doe het ook voor mijn plezier.
Als er iets fout aan de spot is, laat het mij dan weten.
Kan ik nagaan wat er fout is gegaan en eventueel een repost doen.

Berichtjes zijn altijd van harte welkom,en worden zeer op prijs gesteld. 
Heel veel luister plezier toegewenst.

Groetjes Pimpelpaars.