Matchbox (Song) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles "Matchbox" is a rock and roll and rockabilly song written by Carl Perkins and first recorded by him at Sun Records in December 1956 and released on February 11, 1957 as a 45 single on Sun Records. It has become one of Perkins' best-known recordings. The song "Match Box Blues" has a long history, including the 12-bar blues recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson in 1927. Perkins' "Matchbox" has been followed by many cover versions, notably by The Beatles. On December 4, 1956 Carl Perkins recorded a song called "Matchbox." After recording "Your True Love," Perkins's father Buck suggested that he do "Matchbox Blues." Buck knew only a few of the lines of the song, particularly a verse from one of the 1927 recordings by Jefferson, which he had likely heard either in the cotton fields or on the radio, or from a recording or performance by country musicians The Shelton Brothers, who recorded the song twice in the 1930s, and again in 1947.