C&L's Late Night Music Club with Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Eric Clapton
By driftglass Saturday Jan 03, 2009 8:00pmWhether you measure it instrumentally, vocally, sartorially or tonsorially, anyone who thinks the Three Tenors swing bigger cod than Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton and Carl Perkins serving up this tasty slice of transnational musical cross-pollination, can bite my shiny metal ass.
And while I can't be 100% sure, at the 2:43 mark Eric Clapton appears to lean over and ask Carl Perkins, "Tell you wha, Mistuh Pehkins, you slip me B.B. King's private numbah and I can have Diana Rigg here askin' to be 'your little dog 'til your big dog comes' in thirty minutes."
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What a coincidence! I was at the library today and picked up a Carl Perkins CD when I hadn’t thought of him in years. I have been riffing on the harp with him for the last hour. He has more righteous blues licks then any white guy I can think of from his times. He can make the sour notes sweet!
Carl Perkins- Blue Suede Shoes 1956
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is4lWYGM6rM
Does anybody know if Perkins influenced Elvis' famous hip-swivelling moves? The thought crossed my mind as I watched Perkins in the clip.
I thought it was Forrest Gump! :>)
I googled Carl Perkins to see when he died (almost exactly 11 years ago, age 65). When he was young, he was so poor that when his guitar strings broke,
' ... he retied them. The knots would cut into his fingers when he tried to slide to another note, so he began bending the notes, stumbling onto a type of "blue note" '
Interesting, eh?
NEW RIDERS / PANAMA RED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6SV7biwQA&fe...
COMMANDER CODY / HOT ROD LINCOLN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQA9HdmKeoo&fe...
Pure Prairie League - Amie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHWt8qZao4A&fe...
Take The Highway 1991 Marshall Tucker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFSCrSU29Ug&fe...
Flying Burrito Brothers - Christine's Tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BITiY8M_oDo
Poco - You Better Think Twice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWpqJVg7MQ&fe...
Take It Easy- The Eagles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScG0ilS0dgI&fe...
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth -Smother Bros show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm6NeM-6vBE
What a coincidence! I just finished watching "Walk the Line". Terrific movie. The acting and singing were tops and John Carter Cash did a great job as executive producer.
You know, if Elvis hadn't come along Carl Perkins would have been the "King". Carl sang Blue Suede Shoes better than Elvis IMHO.
now more than ever. Thanks for the recommendation, Jo!
and what a treat to see them all working their magic together.
These guys are proof that greatness very often comes from the humblest and poorest of beginnings.
Thank you, driftglass!
"Cadillac Records", the fictionalized story of Chess Records. It was very good, Beyonce can hold her own with Etta James, and Clapton, Perkins nor Cash would have been on the map without the blues from Chicago and Mississippi.
Wow, nice clip. If you ask me, Carl Perkins blew Clapton out of the water with those two leads. Amazing!
Great video..3 legends for sure.
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=eOqVSA5-nys
Slayer!
From what the old timers tell the deal with Elvis’s hip was not original with him or Perkins, but was a standard dance move in black clubs all over. Anyone that wanted to learn “race” music, as it was called, could only get it in the black clubs because black musicians weren’t recorded much and it wasn’t until the late fifties that you could even find a radio station that broadcast black music in the south. So, if you were a young white kid you would come into a club and hang back to the band stand and start grinding out what you heard. The grinding was the hip thing. The grinding on the dance floor must have left a pretty big impression on a young boy.
Reminds me of the Scruggs albums.
Dridty!! Nice pic, glad to see they cut ya loose on the moosik too, in here!!
Blues? That's phrellin rockabilly, folks . . . you kids don't know squat, now GET OFF MY LAWN!! *G*
And yes, rockabilly owed its origins, as did early and mid 50's rock (and more) to the blues greats of the 30's. 40's and 50's who came from the deep south . . . . . to SOME extent.
But more so, I have to believe rockabilly sprang from the 40'ss/50's black sound coming from Chicago in the form of Howln Wolf, Square Box Git Man Bo Diddely, Lightnin Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Little Walter and a host of others I can't think of off the top of my head . . . that Chi Town sound came from the south at some point, and found it's way back DOWN to the south once born anew in Chicago.
Drifty, I'm not a pro music critic, but you know Chicago . . . its history. What say you?
Blues? Carl Perkins, Clapton and Cash were NOT doing blues in that clip, it was pure rockabilly . . *G* Phrellin kids . . LOL
Trivia, name a one hit Canadian Wonder rockabilly artist in the early 80's and his song? Not so popular in USA . . . not at all . . . played on americana stations to this day, though, and on the internet. . .
Speaking of good americana, that encompasses it ALL from long, long ago to now, dial up on the toobz one www.bootliquor.com . . . . . good stuff and WIDE ranging!! *G*
Does anyone know what kind of guitar Perkins is playing? It looks like a Rickenbacker body but with P-90 pickups, but the headstock looks like a Fender. I couldn't get enough detail from the video to ID it.
a MicroFrets Golden Comet, one of Perkins preferred models.
Led Zeppelin - Going to California
Death Cab for Cutie - Cath
Man you can step on my blue suede shoes and I have it on a Sun 78.
I believe the flip side is Honey Don't. Do not mess around with Emma.
In 1965 at the tender age of 14,,,, well it don't get any better than Mrs.Peel, does it? Not even Honor "pussy galore" blackman could come close.
scary good.
Perkin's rug is a just regular scary.. :)
long live the blues.
Carl Perkins is given credit for writing Matchbox. However, if you search Youtube using "matchbox" and "blind lemon jefferson", you should find Blind Lemon Jefferson's own version of the same song recorded in the 1920's, called Matchbox Blues. With all due respect to Carl Perkins (and he deserves plenty), I believe that Blind Lemon should get credit for this song. He was the first black, male recording artist, was a contemporary of Leadbelly and wrote "See that My Grave is Kept Clean" which was recorded by Bob Dylan on his first album. Assuming Blind Lemon wrote Matchbox, then he was probably the only person whose music was recorded by both Bob Dylan and The Beatles. Something to think about. I agree with Mike V. "long live the blues"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1fXhLVaBBY
What a coincidence. I have the entire PBS program on one of my hard disks. I had some people over on New Year's Eve, and it turned out that one of the guests was a Carl Perkins fan. I said, "you have GOT to see this", and fast-forwarded to the Clapton segment, with a couple of unscheduled stops on the way for James Taylor and Joni Mitchell.
While I have the microphone... the song Taylor did was "Sweet Baby James". I feel a need to pass this URL along to anyone who has a computer with speakers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWwnBHnqws
Note that Taylor is on a first-name basis with Natalie, Martie, and Emily.
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