Carl Perkins

Ticket stub, newspaper ad and concert calendar from 1979 showing Carl Perkins as the intended support act in Albany, Berkeley and Detroit.

Songwriter and original performer on:

Honey Don't

Intended as the opening act for the 1979 Armed Funk tour, but was replaced by The Rubinoos.

Carl was supposed to be the opening act on the Armed Forces tour. He had a record out on Don Arden's label, Jet Records, and — this is the way I heard it — for whatever reason, they decided not to support Carl on that tour. In those days, quite often, the labels would put some money into an act coming out on the road, tour support. I don't think it happens so much these days.

Anyway, it didn't happen at the last minute, and we asked if he wanted to come and play when we got to Nashville. We were playing Memorial Hall or something. And he was there with his guitar and everything all ready to go. We never had a rehearsal or anything: We were just going to play "Mystery Dance," because we figured it owed a little bit to one of his songs, you know? (laughs)

Anyway, when we came off — we didn't often do encores in those days — he'd gone. So I think he must been horrified by the way we sounded. (laughs) We did sound quite a lot different [from] our records. We didn't sound I guess anything like he really imagined we'd ever sound. — Elvis Costello, 2010, Nashville Scene

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