Carl Perkins - forgotten pioneer or respected legend?

Must be on Youtube, that clip of him playing guitar with Eric Clapton on some late 60s show - possibly Johnny Cash - and Clapton seems blown away with his guitar playing

oh yeah I was talking about the actual quartet.

oh! phew. i was starting to worry about you or wonder what i had missed in those horrible advertisements that are on every bus and in every 5 min of morning edition

tbqh, i've always wanted to see some cartoon pigs dancing in a barn while a pig band jams "matchbox" in the corner standing on a haystack
i feel like i've seen this before, but if not can someone please make that happen

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LOL, how do you embed youtube?

Fuck it, it's here anyway

Simply paste the link!

Part of being a mass media Luddite is I am just learning today about this MDQ touring musical. Wow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In81MKHi-vY

(xp) LOL, I've done it before too

i was hoping for pigs, but i've been waiting this long
i'm patient

love carl in that clip -- he swings so much more comfortably than clapton or johnny c

Saw him live once in the '80s; great despite the hairpiece.

Part of being a mass media Luddite is I am just learning today about this MDQ touring musical. Wow...

― Prostetnic Vogon Limbaugh (Dan Peterson), Thursday, September 8, 2011

I wanted to go up to NYC and splurge on the MDQ musical, the Fela one, the Memphis one, and In the heights (with uptown NYC latino music), but have yet to see any of them. The Fela one is in DC starting next week for a ton of money.

The Fela musical is completely and utterly unfuckwithable (particularly if the band is hot, as Antibalas were in NYC).

Back to Carl...George Harrison idolized Perkins, and I don't think I've seen George happier or more relaxed on stage (including with the Beatles) than in this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNiqlBrl3r4

Another clip from the same show ("Rockabilly Session; Carl Perkins & Friends" - the whole thing is on YouTube). Carl plays a little bit of the Les Paul version of "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"

The look on George's face as he tries to figure out what the hell Carl is doing is priceless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbnrN-PV3U

After watching this clip, I'm ready to quit guitar. I'm not worthy

Love that special.

It's telling that George seems so much happier in that special than in, say, the Beatles Anthology.

Also, holy shit at "and here's the echo!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEIGQoKSGs

from that special, in case not posted already or gone missing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnr1R4ULRTY

I was just thinking of him yesterday when I was in TK maxx looking at blue suede shoes.
Do love his narrative song style though. & the Charly cd of his 50s era I have is pretty great.

"Love Carl. I had never heard this song until just a few weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL674F013DA2467B63&v=Hg-D9fLbRiI&feature=player_embedded "
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that song is on the Panther Burns' Behind the Magnolia curtain but I don't think i've heard the Perkins version before

revived link to the clip with george harrison watching carl playing 'the world is waiting for the sunrise' (link above has died)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ggTqc_Yy-Q

"Boppin' the Blues" with the Blasters in 1982:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pIXg6tL9cs

revived link to the clip with george harrison watching carl playing 'the world is waiting for the sunrise' (link above has died)

That playing-the-tape-echo thing is fucking bonkers. And George looks like he's having the most fun playing music since...well, ever.

The guy has so much presence, is such a commanding performer, that when you see these live versions you don't feel the common temptation to run to the original recordings even with the multi-member celebrity backup band.

https://bittersoutherner.com/greetings-from-the-land-of-blue-suede-shoes

Why didn't my friends in McNairy County tell me there are acetate recordings of Carl Perkins doing "Good Rockin' Tonight" and "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O-Dee" from 1952-53?

Contradicting some later versions of history, Perkins always said there was a well-established pre-Sun scene:

“Rockabilly music was very popular and had been for a long time in the cotton belt area of west Tennessee, east Arkansas and north Mississippi,” he said in one interview. “Nobody was copying Elvis. … It’s just that that type of music was popular in the area. … (Elvis) started the whole thing because he recorded it first.”

He sounds great on Dylan's Travelin' Thru. From Colin Escott's ever-apt booklet notes:
On the day of the first Cash-Dylan duets, February 17th, Carl Perkins was in an adjoining Columbia studio recording an entire album. The core of the record was remakes of his then unavailable Sun Records catalog, including "Matchbox." The following day...Cash and Dylan recorded "Matchbox" with Perkins on guitar. The song was, Dylan told Perkins, the first he ever recorded. He and his high school band went into a studio in Minneapolis and came away with a one-off record. True or half-true, Perkins needed to hear that. A couple of days later, Dylan gave Perkins one verse of a song, Champlain, Illinois," and asked Perkins to finish it. In July, Perkins slotted it into his fabulously mismatched album with NRBQ.

He would be classic if the only ever thing he did was to write “Daddy Sang Bass.” So überclassic.

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(Sorry sic)