page_title: Carl Perkins
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Carl Perkins / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Casey Jones Village in Jackson, Tennessee..
context_page_description: Carl Lee Perkins was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, beginning in 1954. Amongst his best-known songs are "Blue Suede Shoes", "Matchbox" and "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby".
  According to Charlie Daniels, "Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed." Perkins's songs were recorded by artists as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton which further established his place in the history of popular music. Paul McCartney claimed that "if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles."
  Called "the King of Rockabilly", he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He also received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award.
context_section_description: Perkins wrote his autobiography, Go, Cat, Go, published in 1996, in collaboration with music writer David McGee in 1996. Plans for a biographical film were announced by Santa Monica-based production company Fastlane Entertainment. was slated for release in 2009.
  In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Perkins number 99 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
  Many of the Beatles' live shows were full of Rock 'N' Roll covers of Carl Perkins’ songs such as 'Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby', 'Matchbox' and 'Honey Don't'.
  His version of "Blue Suede Shoes" was included by the National Recording Preservation Board in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2006.
  The Perkins family still owns his songs.
  Drive-By Truckers, on their album The Dirty South, recorded a song about him, "Carl Perkins' Cadillac".
  The Carl Perkins Arena in Jackson, Tennessee is named in his honor.
  George Thorogood and the Destroyers covered "Dixie Fried" on their 1985 album Maverick. The Kentucky Headhunters also covered the song, as did Keith de Groot on his 1968 album No Introduction Necessary, with Jimmy Page on lead guitar and John Paul Jones on bass.
  Ricky Nelson covered Perkins's "Boppin' the Blues" and "Your True Love" on his 1957 debut album, Ricky.
  Perkins was portrayed by Johnny "Kid Memphis" Holiday in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.
  Perkins was honored with the "Lifetime Achievement" award during the Tennessee Music Awards event in 2018 at the University of Memphis Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee.
caption: Continuation of the historic placard in tribute to Perkins
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