Carl Perkins - Matchbox free for downloading

I remember this song. I was 15 years old.

A few hours before the million dollar quartet met up on Dec 4 1956 at Sun Studios, Carl would lay down Matchbox with a then fledgling Sun recording artist Jerry Lee Lewis on keys.

63 years of rockabilly nostalgia since then and none of them need have bothered -- this is better than any of the imitators.

ISNT IT INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING THAT A TINY TINY ROOM ABOUT THE SIZE OF MY KITCHEN COULD PRODUCE RECORDINGS THAT LITERALLY TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN WHILE HUGE CORPORATIONS LIKE COLUMBIA AND DECCA WITH LITERALLY MILLIOMS AT THEIR DISPOSAL AND BIG SOPHISTICATED RECORDING EQUIPMENT WERENT ABLE TO EVEN MAKE A DENT????

The killer Jerry Lee Lewis with the the king Carl Perkins

There are others, then there is magical Carl Perkins

Part of a bad history of white singers who had no feel whatsoever for the blues not only recording a song but also claiming authorship. This song was written and first done by Blind Lemon Jefferson. This twangy country and western version probably exists because the KKK would not buy the original, the Leadbelly version or even the bluesier version by the other white singer who could actually sing the blues (Jerry Lee Lewis).

Carl Perkins the boss

Jerry Lee recorded this himself in 1958. His piano on that is a bit more prominent, and guitar much less so.