According to Johnny Cash, he was the one who inspired Carl Perkins to write the generational standard, "Blue Suede Shoes".

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bart Swift felt pride in knowing his late father-in-law, Carl Perkins, gained induction into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame on Thursday. But Swift, like many Perkins fans, wonders why it took so long.

“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 ...

Always heavily influenced by Motown and the American blues and rock of Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Ray Charles, as they made their big jump from the smaller stages in ...