This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

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 ...

Carl Perkins–a sharecropper’s son who learned music on a guitar fashioned from a cigar box and a broomstick–was a rockabilly pioneer, influencing the likes of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, and ...