Carl Perkins: Rocks - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Rocks
Artist: Carl Perkins
Label: Bear Family
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4000127167521
Genre: Rockabilly, Southern Rock
Release Date: 2005-06-21
Number of Discs: 1

Wenty-nine rockin' songs from across Carl Perkins' career. Sun... of course, Decca, Columbia, and Mercury. The songs include Blue Suede Shoes... of course, and much MUCH more. Honey Don't, Put Your Cat Clothes On, Big Bad Blues, Where The Rio de Rosa Flows, EP Express (Carl Perkins' tribute to Elvis), Restless, and so many more!Carl Perkins was rockabilly music. In fact, there was a time in the early 1960s when the only rockabilly you could buy on microgroove was Carl Perkins' Dance Album (oh yes, and a couple of Elvis LPs). The Beatles were not alone in being able to replicate every note on that LP, and they later recorded three of it's twelve tracks, Honey Don't, Matchbox, and Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby. Plus, of course, they performed Carl Perkins' signature hit, Blue Suede Shoes, in concert. Royalty income from the Beatles aside, Carl Perkins had just one really big hit, Blue Suede Shoes. Carl Perkins managed to hang a career on that one record, yet the flood of tributes that accompanied his passing in January 1998 would lead you to think that one of the era's biggest hitmakers had died. But in a way, Carl Perkins was one of the era's giants, if not in terms of charted records then certainly in other ways. Carl Perkins was one of the first to sing lead, write the songs, and play lead guitar. And he was one of the first to bring a hillbilly feel to R&B or an R&B feel to hillbilly, thereby creating rockabilly, and thereby creating rock 'n' roll. Incredibly, this is the first full career retrospective of Carl Perkins... Read more at: https://www. Bear-family. #de/

Tracks:
1.1 Matchbox
1.2 Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby
1.3 Honey Don't
1.4 Put Your Cat Clothes on
1.5 Dixie Fried
1.6 You Can Do No Wrong
1.7 Boppin' the Blues
1.8 Your True Love
1.9 Blue Suede Shoes
1.10 Her Love Rubbed Off
1.11 Caldonia
1.12 Gone, Gone, Gone
1.13 Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo
1.14 All Mama's Children
1.15 Glad All Over
1.16 Where the Rio de Rosa Flows
1.17 That's All Right
1.18 Rockin' Record Hop
1.19 Sittin' on Top of the World
1.20 Because You're Mine
1.21 Jive After Five
1.22 Honey, 'Cause I Love You
1.23 Big Bad Blues
1.24 Lonely Heart
1.25 I Wouldn't Have You
1.26 Restless
1.27 Honky Tonk Song
1.28 E.P. Express
1.29 Big Bad Blues
1.30 Baby, Bye Bye
1.31 Memphis in the Meantime