Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session Customer Review: Amazing live rockabilly!!!
This is an amazing live rockabilly set by the king of rockabilly, Carl Perkins. I purchased the VHS of this show when it originally came out in 1986. I have since purchased the dvd and I had to have the cd since the music is so rockin’. Carl is accompanied by a slew of stellar performers on this cd. George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Dave Edmunds, Eric Clapton, Slim Jim Phantom, Lee Rocker, Earl Slick, and Rosanne Cash. I believe that Carl has never sounded better. His voice had greatly matured and he shows it on his own country & western classic “Turn Around. He rocks on “Put Your Cat Clothes On”. It’s by far his best version. I can’t leave out “Boppin’ the Blues” and “Blue Suede Shoes”. The sound quality all throughout the cd is excellent. If you are a Carl Perkins fan like myself, then your music collection shouldn’t be without this one.
Customer Review: Pure Joy, Everyone Sounds Great Celebrating Carl Perkins on Stage
What a joy to listen to! Everone on stage seems to be unabashed happy to be with Carl and just have a great unrestrained time. Recorded in 85 in front of a live and appreciative audience, Perkins brings his guests on one at a time to play with his band and sing solos and duets or harmonies. Perkins sounds absolutely great and his energy seems to infiltrate into everyone’s soul. Harrison plays and sings with great confidence and clarity, Ringo reprises his Beatles copy of Perkin’s “Honey Don’t”, Clapton sings and really turns it up on guitar, Edmonds plays great and Roseanne Cash rocks on “What Kind of Girl”. The music is outstanding and is full of energy but their pure joy of being together comes through on this great album and closes quite touchingly as Perkins thanks his friends after the film stops but the tape rolls on as this all star band of friends plays on.