"Carl Perkins' songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed." Charlie Daniels
Perkins's
songs were as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny
Cash and Eric Clapton which further established his place in the history of
popular music. Paul McCartney said that "if there were no Carl Perkins,
there would be no Beatles."