Women’s fight for equality and respect started long before rock n’ roll ever entered the picture, but it’s a battle that rages on to this day. While the music business establishment has long lionized ...

On this day (October 20) in 1937, Wanda Jackson was born in Maud, Oklahoma. After being discovered by a country legend and signing with a major label in her teens, she became the first woman to have a ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's continue our week of interviews from our archive with R&B, rockabilly and early rock 'n' roll musicians and songwriters. Up next, we have Carl Perkins, one of ...

Rock music has more or less always been a male-dominated genre. Though women have long been present in the rock scene, they are routinely left out of conversations when discussing the greats. We’d ...

"CARL PERKINS: THE KING OF ROCKABILLY" by Jeff Apter (Citadel, 240 pages, $29). Carl Perkins is an unexpected choice of subject for the prolific musician biographer Jeff Apter, who lays out the life ...