CARL PERKINS - LONDON GERMANY - BLUE SUEDE SHOES
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105
$ 105
Sold For
Mar 14, 2011
Sold Date
Mar 7, 2011
Start Date
$ 7
Start price
13
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USA
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CARL PERKINS - LONDON GERMANY - BLUE SUEDE SHOES
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Although it's one of those tunes that seems like it's been around forever, there was a time in pop music history when a "Blue Suede Shoes" didn't exist. As a rock & roll call to arms, a defiant cry of '50s teenage youthfulness, it's the ultimate sign pointer. As a song that was the first to top all three charts (pop, country, and R&B), it's the first great crossover tune of rock & roll. Through the original by its composer, Carl Perkins, and its subsequent covers -- most notably the 1956 cover by Elvis Presley -- it has become one of the national anthems of '50s rock & roll and certainly the most famous rockabilly record of all time. The original boasts several unique qualities, none of which are bettered in Elvis' version or anyone else's, for that matter. For openers, you'll seldom hear a combo with just one electric guitar, an acoustic rhythm, a string bass, and set of drums sound so amazingly full like they do on this track. This is largely due to Sam Phillips' ingenious miking system at the sparse but right on Sun studios, but also because the Perkins band (made up of Carl, his two brothers, and a close friend) plays the track so in the pocket; the record simply swings like mad. The most important ingredient is Carl himself. His guitar breaks brought the electric guitar right out front with two hot solos that truly defined early rock & roll guitar playing while his vocal is another defining moment, full of yelps, bends, and the sheer joy of letting loose on a Saturday night. Elvis eventually went Hollywood, but Carl Perkins could never shake the country boy out of his nature, and that hillbilly charm is what makes "Blue Suede Shoes" such a great record and its simplistic message so irresistible and transmutable to further generations down the road as an early signpost to rock & roll's beginnings. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was almost criminal of Sun Records boss Sam Phillips to tuck as savage a slab of prototypical rockabilly as Carl Perkins' seminal "Honey Don't" on the flip side of the guitarist's immortal "Blue Suede Shoes." Cut December 18, 1955, at Sun's famous studios at 706 Union in Memphis, the inordinately exciting "Honey Don't" actually outclasses its more celebrated platter-mate in some ways. The structure of the song's breaks was unorthodox in the extreme; instead of progressing from the I chord that the Tiptonville, TN, native hit underneath the first line of his breaks to the IV or V (standard procedure back then for country and blues fare), Perkins ventured up to a C chord -- thus breaking fresh rockabilly ground. The Rockin' Guitar Man, as Sun then billed him, blasts out some of his toughest boogie-imbued fretwork between knife-edged vocal stanzas, once again utilizing that newfangled E-to-C chord change over supple juke joint backing from his brothers, Jay Perkins on rhythm guitar and Clayton Perkins on upright bass, and drummer W.S. "Fluke" Holland. Perkins should have enjoyed two smashes instead of one from that classic single, but some hip folks picked up on "Honey Don't" anyway: Ronnie Hawkins waxed a vicious version for Roulette in 1960, and the Beatles paid loving tribute with a faithful 1964 cover that featured Ringo Starr's enthusiastic vocal (Perkins, in the midst of a British tour, attended the session).
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