Eastview & the Stanton Littlejohn Sessions

Eastview and the Stanton Littlejohn Sessions. Near this location in 1947, amateur radio engineer Stanton Littlejohn, began making lacquer disc recordings from the front parlor of his Eastview Tennessee home for a decade or more, Littlejohn documented a rare glimpse of local and regional music making it a pivotal moment in American Music History. , Predictably, southern gospel quartets, bluegrass bands, old-time string musicians and Country artists sought out Littlejohn to take advantage of his services, regional favorites such as Waldo Davis, Elvis Black, Con Crotts, Ernest”Pap” Whitten, Arnold English, the Latta Ramblers, and many others, made impressive recordings at Littlejohn’s Home Studio. , In 1951 American Music Icon, Carl Perkins found his way to Eastview where he made the first known recordings of his storied career, better known as a rock artist, Perkins first recorded country and old-time music with a group of local musicians but in a second session, Perkins would perform his signature sound, well before the rockabilly anthem, Blue Suede Shoes launched his career. , Perkins historic Eastview Recordings are thought to be the earliest sonic documentation of rockabilly music predating Elvis Presley’s commercial success by two or three years.