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Carl Perkins NRBQ Boppin' Blues
early 1970's Stereo, Analogue Pressing
Vinyl plays VG++ to MINT-, mostly MINT-, intro to A-1 is VG+ to VG++, mostly VG++
Cover is VG++
Columbia Records - PC 9981
Original pressing ~ Includes custom, mini booklet

"While some ill-informed revisionist writers of rock history would like to dismiss as a rockabilly artist who became a one-hit wonder at the dawn of rock & roll's early years, a deeper look at his music and career reveals much more. A quick look at his songwriting portfolio shows that he composed "Daddy Sang Bass" for , "I Was So Wrong" for , and "Let Me Tell You About Love" for , big hits and classics all. His influence as the quintessential rockabilly artist has played a big part in the development of every generation of rockers to come down the pike since, from ' to ' to a myriad of others in the country field as well. His guitar style is the other twin peak -- along with that of ' lead man -- of rockabilly's instrumental center, so pervasive that modern-day players automatically gravitate toward it when called upon to deliver the style, not even realizing that they're playing licks, sometimes note for note. As a singer, his interpretation of country ballads is every bit as fine as his better-known rockers. And within the framework of the best of his music is a strong sense of family and roots, all of which trace straight back to his humble beginnings.

He was born to sharecroppers Buck and Louise Perkins (misspelled on his birth certificate as "Perkings") and was soon out in the fields picking cotton and living in a shack with his parents, older brother , and his younger brother . Working alongside blacks in the field every day, it's not at all surprising that when was gifted with a secondhand guitar, he went to a local sharecropper for lessons, learning firsthand the boogie rhythm that he would later build a career on. By his teens, was playing electric guitar and had recruited his brothers on rhythm guitar and on string bass to become his first band. , featuring both and on lead vocals, quickly established itself as the hottest band in the get-hot-or-go-home cutthroat Jackson, TN, honky tonk circuit. It was here that started composing his first songs with an eye toward the future. Watching the dancefloor at all times for a reaction, kept reshaping these loosely structured songs until he had a completed composition, which would then be finally put to paper. was already sending demos to New York record companies, who kept rejecting him, sometimes explaining that this strange new hybrid of country with a black rhythm fit no current commercial trend. But once heard on the radio, he not only knew what to call it, but knew that there was a record company person who finally understood it and was also willing to gamble in promoting it. That man was and the record company was Sun Records, and that's exactly where headed in 1954 to get an audition." ...
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