Jerry Lee Lewis Southern Swagger (CD)
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Jerry Lee Lewis: Southern Swagger (CD)
A unique collection of Jerry Lee Lewis' most confident/sexually aggressive performances. Because sexual energy fuelled Jerry Lee Lewis' best music, 'Southern Swagger' is a very powerful collection that stands with his 'Best Of' compilation. The collection covers his entire Sun period through his early 1970s recordings and includes rare alternate takes and mixes.
Southern Swagger Nobody had more of it than Jerry Lee Lewis. He was the menace every parent had in mind when the cry went out, 'Lock up your daughters!' A wild man on the loose. 'If the good Lord made anything better than a woman,' Jerry Lee famously observed, 'He kept it for himself.' Jerry Lee Lewis had no illusions about himself. Through a long and varied life, he has remained true to his inner demons. And we have those demons to thank for some of the rawest, most honest and inspired music in the history of rock 'n' roll.
The tracks on this album are drawn from Jerry Lee Lewis' earliest years on the Sun label in Memphis, with a few added examples from the next decade at Mercury Records. Jerry Lee Lewis was barely past his teenage years when he began recording the music we present here. Each track, in its own way, reflects something about Jerry Lee Lewis' view of the universe and his place in it. As philosophies go, this one is pretty simple: Raising hell and chasing women are what it's all about.
As this disc reveals, Jerry Lee Lewis' swagger was not something he developed as his career and reputation grew. It was there from the very earliest days. Even on his later country-based sides for Mercury,
Jerry Lee Lewis is still irrepressible. Whether he's playing the role of pathetic loser, beaten-down lover or dumb schmuck who's about to get left behind, Jerry Lee Lewis still manages to sound like he's come out on top. That, of course, is part of his enduring appeal.
Jerry Lee Lewis could hardly keep that confidence, that bravado, that Southern Swagger under control. Sometimes it reared its lustful, sneering head in his music. A phrase here, an aside there. Until now, samples of Jerry Lee Lewis' Southern Swagger have been scattered over his entire career, buried like little time bombs among hundreds of singles and albums. For the first time, we gather a lusty collection of such performances on a single CD - both the issued tracks as well as some originally unissued alternate takes. For good measure, we throw in some unguarded studio chatter. This CD offers the best look ever at what makes Jerry Lee Lewis the royalty of Southern Swagger. In a field dominated by super-size egos, Jerry Lee Lewis is still King.
Article properties:Jerry Lee Lewis: Southern Swagger (CD)
Interpret: Jerry Lee Lewis
Album titlle: Southern Swagger (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
- Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127168658
- weight in Kg 0.115
Lewis, Jerry Lee - Southern Swagger (CD) CD 1 | ||||
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01 | Mean Woman Blues | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
02 | Drinkin' Wine Spo Dee O Dee | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
03 | Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
04 | Big Legged Woman | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
05 | Lewis Boogie | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
06 | chatter | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
07 | Great Balls Of Fire (movie version) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
08 | Keep Your Hands Off Of It/Birthday Cake | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
09 | Ubangi Stomp | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
10 | End Of The Road | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
11 | Dixie | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
12 | Deep Elem Blues | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
13 | It'll Be Me | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
14 | Introduction & Cool, Cool Ways (Sexy Ways) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
15 | Honey Hush | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
16 | All Night Long | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
17 | You Can't Help It | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
18 | Good Rockin' Tonight | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
19 | Lovin' Up A Storm | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
20 | Rockin' With Red | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
21 | I've Been Twistin' | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
22 | Down The Line | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
23 | Sixty Minute Man | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
24 | Ooby Dooby | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
25 | Wild One (Real Wild Child) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
26 | Carrying On (Sexy Ways) | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
27 | Baby, Hold Me Close | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
28 | Break My Mind | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
29 | Since I Met You Baby | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
30 | Time Changes Everything | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
31 | Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone | Jerry Lee Lewis | ||
32 | Meat Man | Jerry Lee Lewis |
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis - Obituary
The Pumping Piano Man will rock the house no more.
Jerry Lee Lewis, whose youthful wildhair ways defined rock and roll as indelibly as his leering, lascivious vocals and thundering skills on the 88s, died October 28, 2022 at the age of 87. Against all odds, he was one of the last legends standing from the days when Sam Phillips built an astonishing talent roster for his Sun Records. When Lewis appeared on his doorstep in 1956, determined to show the folks in charge precisely what he could do to a defenseless piano, the Memphis label had already bid adieu to Elvis and was riding high thanks to Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and a posse of other raucous rockabillies.
Still, Jerry Lee would captivate Sam—and the world--like no other, despite suffering monumental damage from a 1958 scandal involving his precocious child bride (who also happened to be his cousin) that would have ended any other performer’s career permanently. Jerry Lee, like Old Man River, just kept on rolling along, regenerating his popularity first with the rock and roll crowd and then veering into the country field with tremendous success. Long after he achieved senior citizen status (who would have ever foreseen that happening to the hard-living Lewis?), the Killer insisted on rocking as hard as his health would allow.
Born September 29, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana, Lewis grew up with a pair of piano-playing cousins, Mickey Gilley (who followed in Jerry Lee’s rocking footsteps) and future evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Lewis cited country greats Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams as primary influences, along with a little bit of Al Jolson and some of the sweaty blues that he snuck into hear at Haney’s Big House, Ferriday’s top black juke joint. He mostly refused to admit to any pianists as role models, although his 88s-playing cousin Carl McVoy impressed him. So did sightless piano wizard Paul Whitehead when the two played together in Natchez circa 1952. A brief stint at a Texas bible college ended when Jerry Lee transformed My God Is Real into a heathenous boogie, but gospel music always remained close to his heart.
Lewis honed his act in clubs from Natchez to Nashville prior to the auspicious trip to Memphis that landed Lewis his audition with Sun producer Jack Clement. Jack was impressed, and before long he rolled tape when Jerry Lee launched into his hot-rodded treatment of Ray Price’s recent country hit Crazy Arms. Sun pressed it up, and Lewis was on the musical map. Phillips knew he’d found someone truly special, and let tape roll whenever Jerry Lee found his way to 706 Union Avenue to pump Phillips’ studio piano. One of the many disparate songs Lewis waxed for Sun was the rip-roaring Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On, already waxed elsewhere by fellow piano man Roy Hall and mountainous blues belter Big Maybelle. Jerry Lee tightened up his rafter-rattling version during a long night at the Twin Gables in Blytheville, Arkansas. Then he cut it for Sun with guitarist Roland Janes, drummer J.M. Van Eaton, and Jerry Lee’s cousin, J.W. Brown, on electric bass.
Issued as his encore single, Whole Lot Of Shakin’ was an across-the-board juggernaut during the summer of 1957. Lewis was suddenly starring on network television, headlining star-studded package shows, and raising hell wherever he went, playing pianos with his feet, kicking their benches, standing atop them and tearing them apart with the sheer ferocity of his performances. Things escalated to a fever pitch with his next Sun single, the flammable Otis Blackwell-penned smash Great Balls Of Fire. Lewis went right back to Blackwell for Breathless, another major hit. High School Confidential, the title song to the movie of the same name (in which Lewis memorably appeared on a flatbed truck under the opening credits), was on its way to similar blockbuster status when news hit of his betrothal to his 13-year-old cousin Myra Gail, bassist Brown’s daughter. Jerry Lee was instantly toxic, his career in tatters.
Slowly but surely, he came back. Sam never gave up on him, continuing to issue a stream of Lewis platters until Jerry exited the fading label in 1963 to sign with Mercury’s Smash subsidiary. At first, Jerry Lee continued relentlessly rocking, but in ’68 he switched to country music and proved every bit as sensational as he was a decade earlier in the rock arena, posting an avalanche of hits and completing his comeback. Lewis would alternate between rock and country in decades to come, ferociously stoking his own outsized legend with seven wives, a 1989 movie based rather loosely on his life, and enough insane antics both offstage and on to fill the pages of several highly entertaining biographies. Bear Family has compiled a series of lavish boxed sets over the years covering much of the Killer’s amazing career.
No pianist ever rocked a boogie-woogie with more single-minded panache than the Killer. He was truly one of a kind. --Bill Dahl
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