MEMPHIS – Growing up in Chicago, Jonathan Cain listened to the music of Carl Perkins on AM radio stations. It was all the inspiration he needed to propel his musical career. Cain, the keyboard player ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

On a cool October evening in 1955, Carl Perkins couldn't sleep. His friend and fellow musician, Johnny Cash, had told him about an old army buddy whose proudest possession was a pair of blue suede ...

“Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly” by Jeff Apter, Citadel Press, 240 pages, $29. Readers fortunate enough to have spent their adolescence during the 1950s will certainly remember singer Carl ...

Valerie June contributes a sweet and tender cover of "Sure To Fall (In Love With You)," originally recorded by Perkins in 1955. In an email, June explained her decision to cover the song: I grew up ...

Let's get back to my interview with Carl Perkins, one of the originators of rockabilly. Perkins, who died in 1998, wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley, which became the first ...

Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of the originators of rockabilly. Perkins' singing, guitar playing and songwriting brought together country and rock 'n' roll. He recorded at Sun Records, the label ...