Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has revealed that rockabilly artist Carl Perkins was the artist who made him first want to pick up a guitar. Homme explained that he decided he wanted to be ...

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 ...

Perkins, who died in 1998, 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 spoke to Fresh Air in 1996. This is ...