"Matchbox" was first recorded in 1924 by Ma Rainey. Carl Perkins reworked it 30 years later and turned it into song about a poor boy with no prospects. On the day he recorded this, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash wandered in and formed the Million Dollar Quartet with Perkins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzshXgrqeK0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzshXgrqeK0
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