Jerry Lee Lewis - Country Class / Country Memories

Styles: Country
Year: 2016
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:09
Size: 159,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:20) 1. Let's Put It Back Together Again
(3:05) 2. No One Will Ever Know
(2:54) 3. You Belong To Me
(3:43) 4. I Sure Miss Those Good Old TImes
(2:51) 5. The Old Country Chruch
(2:14) 6. After The Fool You've Made Of Me
(2:50) 7. Jerry Lee's Rock & Roll Revival Show
(2:40) 8. Wedding Bells
(4:28) 9. Only Love Can Get You In My Door
(4:41) 10. The One Rose That's Left In My Heart
(3:16) 11. The Closest Thing To You
(3:56) 12. Middle Age Cracy
(3:05) 13. Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello (In A Friendly Kind Of Way)
(3:45) 14. Who's Sorry Now
(2:19) 15. Jealous Heart
(3:32) 16. Georgia On My Mind
(2:34) 17. Come On In
(2:15) 18. As Long As We Live
(2:43) 19. (You'd Think By Now) I'd Be Over You
(3:04) 20. Country Memories
(3:15) 21. What's So Good About Goodbye
(2:30) 22. Tennessee Saturday Night

Is there an early rock & roller who has a crazier reputation than the Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis? His exploits as a piano-thumping, egocentric wild man with an unquenchable thirst for living have become the fodder for numerous biographies, film documentaries, and a full-length Hollywood movie. Certainly few other artists came to the party with more ego and talent than he and lived to tell the tale. And certainly even fewer could successfully channel that energy into their music and prosper doing it as well as Jerry Lee. When he broke on the national scene in 1957 with his classic "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," he was every parents' worst nightmare perfectly realized: a long, blonde-haired Southerner who played the piano and sang with uncontrolled fury and abandon, while simultaneously reveling in his own sexuality.

He was rock & roll's first great wild man and also rock & roll's first great eclectic. Ignoring all manner of musical boundaries is something that has not only allowed his music to have wide variety, but to survive the fads and fashions as well. Whether singing a melancholy country ballad, a lowdown blues, or a blazing rocker, Lewis' wholesale commitment to the moment brings forth performances that are totally grounded in his personality and all singularly of one piece. Like the recordings of Hank Williams, Louis Armstrong, and few others, Jerry Lee's early recorded work is one of the most amazing collections of American music in existence.

He was born to Elmo and Mamie Lewis on September 29, 1935. Though the family was dirt poor, there was enough money to be had to purchase a third-hand upright piano for the family's country shack in Ferriday, LA. Sharing piano lessons with his two cousins, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, a ten-year old Jerry Lee Lewis showed remarkable aptitude toward the instrument. A visit from piano-playing older cousin Carl McVoy unlocked the secrets to the boogie-woogie styles he was hearing on the radio and across the tracks at Haney's Big House, owned by his uncle, Lee Calhoun, and catering to Blacks exclusively.

With box sets and compilations, documentaries, a bio flick, a memoir, and his induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame all celebrating his legacy, Lewis continued to record and tour, delivering work that vacillated from tepid to absolutely inspired. While his influence will continue to loom large until there's no one left to play rock & roll piano anymore, the plain truth is that there's only one Jerry Lee Lewis, and America...Follow the link to read full Bio.. By Cub Koda https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jerry-lee-lewis-mn0000332141/biography

R.I.P.

Born: September 29, 1935 in Ferriday, LA

Died: October 28, 2022, DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States

Country Class / Country Memories

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Jerry Lee Lewis - Classic Years

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 48:34
Size: 111.2 MB
Styles: Rock N Roll, Rockabilly
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[1:53] 1. Great Balls Of Fire
[2:28] 2. High School Confidential
[2:51] 3. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
[2:50] 4. It'll Be Me
[2:53] 5. You Win Again
[2:49] 6. Fools Like Me
[2:07] 7. I'll Sail My Ship Alone
[1:46] 8. End Of The Road
[2:37] 9. It Hurt Me So
[2:37] 10. Break Up
[2:03] 11. Livin' Lovin' Wreck
[1:58] 12. Lewis Boogie
[2:44] 13. Crazy Arms
[3:04] 14. I'll Make It All Up To You
[1:57] 15. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
[2:41] 16. Breathless
[1:50] 17. Lovin' Up A Storm
[2:07] 18. Put Me Down
[2:57] 19. It All Depends (On Who Will Buy The Wine)
[2:11] 20. Down The Line

Is there an early rock & roller who has a crazier reputation than the Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis? His exploits as a piano-thumping, egocentric wild man with an unquenchable thirst for living have become the fodder for numerous biographies, film documentaries, and a full-length Hollywood movie. Certainly few other artists came to the party with more ego and talent than he and lived to tell the tale. And certainly even fewer could successfully channel that energy into their music and prosper doing it as well as Jerry Lee. When he broke on the national scene in 1957 with his classic "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," he was every parents' worst nightmare perfectly realized: a long, blonde-haired Southerner who played the piano and sang with uncontrolled fury and abandon, while simultaneously reveling in his own sexuality. He was rock & roll's first great wild man and also rock & roll's first great eclectic. Ignoring all manner of musical boundaries is something that has not only allowed his music to have wide variety, but to survive the fads and fashions as well. Whether singing a melancholy country ballad, a lowdown blues, or a blazing rocker, Lewis' wholesale commitment to the moment brings forth performances that are totally grounded in his personality and all singularly of one piece. Like the recordings of Hank Williams, Louis Armstrong, and few others, Jerry Lee's early recorded work is one of the most amazing collections of American music in existence. ~partial bio by Cub Koda

Classic Years

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Jerry Lee Lewis - The Session

Styles: Rock & Roll
Year: 1973
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 76:07
Size: 206,7 MB
Art: Front

(3:38)  1. Drinking Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee
(4:37)  2. Music To The Man
(3:59)  3. Baby What You Want Me To Do
(2:37)  4. Bad Moon Rising
(3:54)  5. Sea Cruise
(4:40)  6. Jukebox
(5:23)  7. No Headstone On My Grave
(3:44)  8. Big Boss Man
(2:23)  9. Pledging My Love
(4:03) 10. Memphis
(5:49) 11. Trouble In Mind
(3:30) 12. Johnny B. Goode
(3:28) 13. High School Confidential
(4:14) 14. Early Morning Rain
(4:00) 15. Whole Lot Of Shakin' Goin' On
(3:38) 16. Sixty Minute Man
(3:29) 17. Movin' On Down The Line
(5:00) 18. What'd I Say
(3:52) 19. Rock & Roll Medley

The Session was done in London in 1972, at the tail-end of the vogue for recording '50s rock & roll and blues stars with backup by a younger generation of British rock musicians. Although it wasn't a highlight of Lewis' career, it was actually, as hard as it might be to believe, his only album to reach the Top 40, also yielding a single that stopped just short of the Top 40 in his remake of Stick McGhee's "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee." It wasn't exactly Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, and members of the Rolling Stones backing Lewis, it was more a rotating assortment of rockers a little shy of the U.K. A-team, including Rory Gallagher, Peter Frampton, Albert Lee, Alvin Lee, Kenney Jones, Gary Wright, Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum, and Klaus Voormann. 

As for the record itself, which was a return to his rock & roll roots after a few years on which he'd concentrated on country music, it wasn't bad, lacking only when directly compared to his early classic rock & roll recordings. Lewis' singing and piano playing are undiminished, and the band backs him competently on a program dominated by '50s oldies remakes. There's also some more contemporary material, though, including Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" and a country-rockish take on Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" that might be the album's most interesting cut, if only because it doesn't sound as much like he's just retreading old glories. 

The problem is that if you're familiar with Lewis' Sun era, this can't help but come off as rather unnecessary, and inferior to his older rock & roll recordings, particularly on the inevitable remake of "Whole Lot of Shakin' Goin' On." ~ Richie Unterberger  http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-session-mw0000650415

Personnel includes: Jerry Lee Lewis (vocal, piano, percussion); Kenneth Lovelace (guitar, violin); Ray Smith (guitar, percussion); Peter Frampton, Rory Gallagher, Albert Lee, Alvin Lee, Mickey Jones, Delaney Bramlett, Gary Taylor (guitar); Tony Ashton (piano, organ, percussion); Matthew Fisher (organ, percussion); Andy Bown, Gary Wright (organ), Chas Hodges, Klaus Voormann (bass), Kenny Jones, Pete Gavin, Mick Kellie (drums, percussion), Brian Parrish, Gary Taylor, Tony Colton, Brian Parrish, Steve Rowland (percussion), Casey Synge, Dari Lallou, Karen Friedman (background vocals).

The Session

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Jerry Lee Lewis - Jerry Lee Lewis

Size: 92,3 MB
Time: 35:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1979
Styles: Rockabilly Blues/Country
Art: Front & Back

01. Don't Let Go (3:09)
02. Rita May (2:45)
03. Every Day I Have To Cry (3:54)
04. I Like It Like That (2:35)
05. Number One Lovin' Man (3:53)
06. Rockin' My Life Away (3:29)
07. Who Will The Next Fool Be (5:58)
08. (You've Got) Personality (3:26)
09. I Wish I Was Eighteen Again (3:45)
10. Rocking Little Angel (2:02)

After 15 years with Mercury, Lewis made the switch to Elektra in 1978, and the move seemed to rejuvenate him. He had grown tired with the formulaic overproduction that his recent albums on Mercury had been layered with and began recording new material with producer Bones Howe in January 1979 in Los Angeles. Howe, who had worked on Elvis Presley's celebrated 1968 comeback special and had produced albums by Tom Waits and Juice Newton, assembled a more stripped-down band (including Elvis's former guitarist James Burton) that resembled what Lewis used on the road. The resulting album was the best Lewis had made in years. The single "Rockin' My Life Away," would only make it to number 18 on the country charts but would become a live favorite and another in a growing list of songs that were written specifically to celebrate Jerry Lee's uncompromising rock and roll attitude. Another impressive track was "Who Will The Next Fool Be," a gin-soaked Charlie Rich tune that Lewis confidently makes his own ("Pick it, James," he oozes to Burton on the instrumental break, before rasping, "Play your fiddle, Mr. Lovelace," to long-time band member Ken Lovelace). Sonny Throckmorton, who had written Lewis's last big hit "Middle Age Crazy," mines similar territory on "I Wish I was Eighteen Again," and Lewis also gives spirited performances on Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have To Cry" and "Rita Mae," marking the first time he'd ever recorded a song written by Bob Dylan.

This was a tumultuous time for Lewis, whose father Elmo was ailing and would die later that year. Lewis himself had been hospitalized several times for stomach ailments brought about by his pills and carousing, and in the spring of 1979 he was countersued for divorce by his wife Jaren Pate, who accused him of years of cruelty and drunkenness. The IRS was also after him for unpaid taxes.

Jerry Lee Lewis was acclaimed critically but was not a commercial success, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard country albums chart and limping to number 186 on the Top 200. Writing in the liner notes to the 2006 career retrospective A Half Century of Hits, country music historian Colin Escott calls the album "an astonishing return to form," likening Lewis's performance on "Who Will The Next Fool Be" to "a poisoned dart hurled at every woman who had done him wrong." In his authorized biography Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story, Rick Bragg also praises the album: "While his voice was showing its scars and the words were frequently obscure, Jerry Lee delivered them with commitment, and the beat was pure Louisiana boogie-woogie."

Jerry Lee Lewis

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