Carl Perkins - forgotten pioneer or respected legend?

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)