Carl Lee Perkins was born on April 9, 1932 in the small town of Ridgely, Tennessee (Larkin 4196). He grew up in a farming community so he lived the stressful life of a farmer early on in his life. When he was very young, around the age of five, he got his first real guitar. While on the farm there was a black migrant farmer by the name of Uncle John that taught him how to play rhythm and blues (Busnar 67). In 1953 Carl, his brother Jay and his other brother Clayton all formed a band that played hillbilly songs. Carl made the band special though, because he was

In the end Carl Perkins is recognized as a major contributor to where rock and roll is today. He was there in the beginning and up was here up until very recently. This man was like the George Washington of rock and roll. He worked a very hard life overcoming many tragedies with the loss of family members. No matter what he did he always seemed to be upstaged, and did not receive all the attention that he should have done. He had a major influence on many of the people who were popular in the eye of the public. He lived life a rock and roll artist but he died a rock and roll legend.

After Sam Phillips sold off Elvis’s contract to RCA, he began to push Carl and support him more and more. In 1955 Perkins recorded two country songs that did not sell to well they were “Movie Magg” and “Turn Around”. Later that year Perkins recorded the song that he will always be remembered for, “Don’t Step on My Blue Suede Shoes”. It entered the billboard charts in 1956 as number three. It was also the first country record to be on both the R&B chart and the Pop Chart (Larkin 4169). Carl Perkins was on his way to the Ed Sullivan and Perry Como television shows in New York when he was involved in a terrible accident that hospitalized him injured his brothers. After Carl got out of the hospital he never really had a big hit ever again like “Don’t Step on My Blue Suede Shoes” (“Carl Perkins”). Because of the accident Carl was unable to promote his albums so the singles he released later on did not do as well as he had hoped they would. According to The Encyclopedia of Popular Music the hig

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