Jerry Lee Lewis, RIP

[g-dude]

Here are some songs he did with some other folks…guys named Elvis, Carl, and Johnny…







They ended up doing a lot of gospel numbers, which makes sense since you had (by my recollection) two Southern Baptists and two member of the AOG (a Pentecostal denomination).

 

[eadg98005]

I have the LP box set of all his Sun stuff and they preserved a dialogue in the studio of him and Sam Phillips talking about fire and brimstone religion. He was haunted by it.

Yet, he returned to it by releasing a Gospel album just a few weeks ago, along with his cousin, Jimmy.

 

[g-dude]

Yet, he returned to it by releasing a Gospel album just a few weeks ago, along with his cousin, Jimmy.

Oooh, I’ll have to check that one out.

 

[eadg98005]

Oooh, I’ll have to check that one out.

It's actually a very good project.

 

[eadg98005]

 

[bobyoung53]

Yet, he returned to it by releasing a Gospel album just a few weeks ago, along with his cousin, Jimmy.

When was it recorded? He looks like he may have had a stroke. Very good.

 

[JonathanPDX]

Dude was 22 and "married" a 13-year-old girl. "In 1970, Brown filed for divorce on the grounds of adultery and abuse, charging that she had been "subject to every type of physical and mental abuse imaginable."

Why does he deserve peace?

 

[ryco]

Thanks for ALL the good music!
Enjoyed playing your songs!You were a WHOLE LOTTA FUN!!
Rest easy, Sir - job very well done!

man.... guess I'm gettin up there

 

[ToddB1963]

He was, of course, possessed.

I much preferred an older and a little slower Jerry Lee, and he cut a lot of great country sides, including an all-time favorite of mine, 'Another Place, Another Time':

J Wilson, thanks for sharing that. So darn good, I'm surprised he wasn't a bona fide country icon, but as they say "you can take the boy out of rock and roll, but you can't take rock and roll out of the boy". There's no doubt his rock and roll persona held sway...

(Actually 'they' didn't say it, I just made it up LOL)

 

[eadg98005]

When was it recorded? He looks like he may have had a stroke. Very good.

Late Summer 2022. He had a stroke a few months prior.

 

[shawshank72]

The other side of Jerry, he was a GREAT country singer.



One of my personal favorites:

"You Win Again"

Prefer him in country.
Miserable human being from all I read though.

 

[icefly]

RIP

Movie with Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis, is one of the reasons I like bass: there´s a scene which appears a Telebass (I guess so); instantly thought "heyyy! that´s cool, I wanna play bass".

 

[bobyoung53]

Prefer him in country.
Miserable human being from all I read though.

I like both styles as he just went from one to the other so effortlessly.

 

[g-dude]

Miserable human being from all I read though.

If you look hard enough, you’ll be able to be disappointed by most of the people you choose to look up to.

Some folks you need to look a bit less hard at, but when you hear about people with drug and alcohol problems, don’t forget that those problems often take a toll on those closest to them.

 

[Matt R.]

Legally.

Still disgusting AF.

 

[bobyoung53]

 

[eddybuzzard]

RIP Jerry Lee

One of my late dad's all time favorites.
When I was a toddler, I remember being awakened many times, very late at night,
to dad's HiFi, shaking the house to Great Balls Of Fire!
I feel like Jerry Lee's music is in my DNA

 

[fhm555]

A friend was on the entertainment committee at some university in Memphis and they discussed getting The Killer to come play. In addition to his money he also required a grand piano. The school decided they could afford the salry but coud not take the chance he would ruin a rented piano, so they passed. His rep was gin u ine.

...His answer to that Southern guilt was to absolutely do anything he could to burn it down and laugh his way into Hell...

And Son Swaggart played on that guilt big time.

 

[J Wilson]

J Wilson, thanks for sharing that. So darn good, I'm surprised he wasn't a bona fide country icon, but as they say "you can take the boy out of rock and roll, but you can't take rock and roll out of the boy". There's no doubt his rock and roll persona held sway...

(Actually 'they' didn't say it, I just made it up LOL)

See, you have to remember that for guys like them (and me and so many others) raised in the South, blues, country, gospel, and Jazz are all crossbreeds or strong separate strains of originally black music, and these would be flavors we draw on automatically and unconsciously without labels. It was all pieces from the same pie. Aretha or Whitney never lost that gospel feel, the Stones or Skynyrd would lean right into country, and Ray Charles was as much country blues as he was Ellington.

In an earlier time, artists would walk between influences effortlessly, so guys like Jerry Lee could play Newcastle, the Opry, and in church from a catalog of deep influences without even thinking about it, it was whole cloth.

 

[Fernando Costa]

Art is a gift that a few special people give us. Many of them are socially unacceptable people. We need to learn to separate these things because art is too important to be mixed with morally moving behaviors. I watched Jerry in 1993, it was impressive, I knew he was "morally" and "legally" a different person from me, but so was his art. RIP Jerry, and thanks for everything you've done with music. And just for that.