Born in 1932 in Lake City, Tenn., Carl Perkins was one of the original rockers with the Sun Records label -- on hand in Memphis in the 1950s with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Johnny ...

Carl Perkins–a sharecropper’s son who learned music on a guitar fashioned from a cigar box and a broomstick–was a rockabilly pioneer, influencing the likes of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, and ...

We continue our tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Carl Perkins was one of the performers Phillips discovered and recorded in the 1950s. Perkins ...

CARL PERKINS: The King of Rockabilly. By Jeff Apter. Citadel Press. 240 pages. $29. Carl Perkins, the future king of rockabilly music, was the son of sharecroppers. He and his brothers grew up picking ...