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| "Matchbox" | |
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| Single by Carl Perkins | |
| from the album Dance Album of Carl Perkins | |
| A-side | "Your True Love" |
| Released | 1957 |
| Recorded | 1956 |
| Studio | Memphis Recording Service, Memphis, Tennessee |
| Genre | Rockabilly |
| Length | 2:10 |
| Label | Sun |
| Songwriter(s) | Carl Perkins |
| Producer(s) | Sam Phillips |
"Matchbox" is a song written and recorded by Carl Perkins and released in 1957. Blind Lemon Jefferson wrote and recorded a song entitled "Match Box Blues" in 1927,[1] which is musically different but which contains some lyric phrases in common.
"Matchbox" was recorded as a rockabilly song by Carl Perkins in December 1956 and by fellow Sun Records performer, Jerry Lee Lewis – who played piano on the original track – in 1958. Sam Phillips and Sun Records released the Carl Perkins version as the B-side to "Your True Love". Although only the A-side became a record chart hit in 1957, "Matchbox" is one of Perkins' best-known recordings and a variety of musicians have recorded the tune.
- ^ Palmer, Robert (1981). Deep Blues. Penguin Books. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6.