When people talk about the founding fathers of Rock and Roll, or at least the version that took over in the 1950s, they always refer to Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lewis and Bo Diddley.
Somehow Carl Perkins never gets the attention that he should. That’s too bad because he was immensely influential.
Perkins came up through Sun Records at roughly the same time Elvis Presley did and the two became good friends (he was also great friends with Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison). But Presley had far more stage charisma and became a pop culture phenomenon.