“Life ain’t nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs.”
—- Drive-by Truckers, “Carl Perkins’ Cadillac”
For the readers of this site who are not likewise fans of the Drive-by Truckers (yes, both of you), “Carl Perkins’ Cadillac” is the story of a contest run by Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, who guaranteed a brand new Cadillac to the first of his artists to sell a million records. The odds on favorite of course was icon Elvis Presley, though you could have gotten decent odds on his label mates Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.