The Original

I consider myself pretty lucky to have seen Carl Perkins a few times at the Bottom Line in West 3rd Street in New York around 1980. He had a great band with two of his sons. He was ablaze in the late 50's and was on his way to being one of the biggest stars of the early days of Rock. He wrote the songs, he had the looks and he invented the style, but a tragic car accident in 1958 took him out of the game at the wrong moment. Even Paul McCartney paid homage with the comment, "If there had been no Carl Perkins, the would never have been The Beatles."