August 1, 2003 • He wrote "Blue Suede Shoes," the hit song sung by Elvis Presley which became the first Sun label record to sell over a million copies. He also wrote the songs "Matchbox," "Honey Don't ...

Born in 1932 in Lake City, Tenn., Carl Perkins was one of the original rockers with the Sun Records label -- on hand in Memphis in the 1950s with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Johnny ...

We continue our tribute to Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Records who died Wednesday at the age of 80. Carl Perkins was one of the performers Phillips discovered and recorded in the 1950s. Perkins ...