# The Best Carl Perkins Guitar Solos

> The 15 best Carl Perkins guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Blue Suede Shoes (1956), then Boppin' the Blues and Matchbox. Every video starts at the solo.

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Carl Perkins fused hillbilly picking with Black blues phrasing at Sun Studio and gave rockabilly its definitive lead-guitar vocabulary. His slapback-soaked, double-stop fills and tumbling breaks shaped George Harrison, Scotty Moore's successors and every roots-rock guitarist since.

Informed by: [Wikipedia - Carl Perkins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Perkins)

1. [Blue Suede Shoes](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-blue-suede-shoes/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1956
2. [Boppin' the Blues](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-boppin-the-blues/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1956
3. [Matchbox](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-matchbox/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
4. [Dixie Fried](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-dixie-fried/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1956
5. [Honey Don't](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-honey-dont/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1956
6. [Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-everybody-s-trying-to-be-my-baby/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
7. [Gone, Gone, Gone](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-gone-gone-gone/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1955
8. [Put Your Cat Clothes On](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-put-your-cat-clothes-on/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1956
9. [Glad All Over](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-glad-all-over/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
10. [Your True Love](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-your-true-love/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
11. [Right String Baby (But the Wrong Yo Yo)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-right-string-baby-but-the-wrong-yo-yo/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
12. [Lend Me Your Comb](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-lend-me-your-comb/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
13. [Sure to Fall (In Love with You)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-sure-to-fall-in-love-with-you/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1957
14. [Movie Magg](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-movie-magg/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1955
15. [Pink Pedal Pushers](https://greatestsolos.com/song/carl-perkins-pink-pedal-pushers/) — Carl Perkins · solo by Carl Perkins · 1958

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