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Jerry Lee Lewis: Old Time Religion (CD)

1-CD DigiPac (4-plated) with comprehensive booklet including all lyrics, 20 tracks, playing time 65:16 minutes.

Recorded: December 13, 1970,  Brother David's Church, Highway 61 S, Memphis, Tennessee.

Originally unissued live recordings from 1970. The best gospel recordings of Jerry Lee Lewis' career. A rare glimpse of the preacher he might have been. 20 well-known gospel standards including
Peace In The Valley, Precious Memories and Amazing Grace. Jerry Lee Lewis' music at its best: Forget the content and listen to the passion.

At his core, Jerry Lee Lewis has always been a gospel singer. His earliest and best records have revealed that passion, even when he was singing about women and lovin'. Jerry Lee Lewis' famous religious debate with Sam Phillips took place at the recording session for Great Balls Of Fire. His musical life has always been a tug of war between God and the Devil.

The truth is, these may be the best gospel recordings Jerry Lee Lewis ever made in his long career. 'I believe in that old time religion!', he shouts, and proceeds to show us why, with a little spontaneous preaching and testifying between selections. Thankfully, the tape was rolling. These barely documented recordings from December, 1970 were made three days after he renounced worldly music. They reveal Jerry Lee Lewis working with his road band on the stage of a small church out on Highway 41 in Memphis. There are humorous moments too, as when Jerry Lee Lewis flogs his latest LP to the congregation ('You need the album and we need the money'). But in the end, nobody at his record company knew what to do with these tapes and they were originally unissued. Thanks to Bear Family, the music receives the treatment it should have some 40 years ago. Accompanying notes by Sun historian Hank Davis examine the music and document the events in Jerry Lee Lewis' life that led to these recordings on this particular Sunday morning.

As we all know, Jerry Lee Lewis was back to singing worldly music within months. But these recordings were made at a magic moment. They are indispensible to any Jerry Lee Lewis fan. Forget their subject matter and listen to his passion. That's what Jerry Lee Lewis' best music has always been about.

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Lewis, Jerry Lee - Old Time Religion (CD) CD 1
01 Looking For A City Jerry Lee Lewis
02 I'm Longing For Home Jerry Lee Lewis
03 Life's Railway To Heaven Jerry Lee Lewis
04 Someone To Care Jerry Lee Lewis
05 If We Never Meet Again/I'm Gonna Meet You In Jerry Lee Lewis
06 Down The Sawdust Trail Jerry Lee Lewis
07 There'll Be Peace In The Valley Jerry Lee Lewis
08 Precious Memories Jerry Lee Lewis
09 The Old Rugged Cross Jerry Lee Lewis
10 It Will Be Worth It All When We See Jesus Jerry Lee Lewis
11 I Know That Jesus Will Be There Jerry Lee Lewis
12 I'm In The Gloryland Way Jerry Lee Lewis
13 Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye Jerry Lee Lewis
14 Amazing Grace Jerry Lee Lewis
15 On The Jericho Road Jerry Lee Lewis
16 I'll Fly Away Jerry Lee Lewis
17 My God Is Real Jerry Lee Lewis
18 When Jesus Beckons Me Home Jerry Lee Lewis
19 I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone Jerry Lee Lewis
20 Keep On The Firing Line Jerry Lee Lewis
Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis - Obituary  The Pumping Piano Man will rock the... more
"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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Tracklist
Lewis, Jerry Lee - Old Time Religion (CD) CD 1
01 Looking For A City
02 I'm Longing For Home
03 Life's Railway To Heaven
04 Someone To Care
05 If We Never Meet Again/I'm Gonna Meet You In
06 Down The Sawdust Trail
07 There'll Be Peace In The Valley
08 Precious Memories
09 The Old Rugged Cross
10 It Will Be Worth It All When We See Jesus
11 I Know That Jesus Will Be There
12 I'm In The Gloryland Way
13 Tomorrow May Mean Goodbye
14 Amazing Grace
15 On The Jericho Road
16 I'll Fly Away
17 My God Is Real
18 When Jesus Beckons Me Home
19 I Won't Have To Cross Jordan Alone
20 Keep On The Firing Line