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Rock & Roll Time
- Rock & Roll Time opens with the lamentations of the Kristofferson-penned title track, and Lewis’ self-confessed favourite of the album, before launching into a collection of songs from the oeuvres of Chuck Berry (Little Queenie, Promised Land), Lynyrd Snynyrd (Mississippi Kid), Jimmy Rodgers (Blues Like Midnight), and Johnny Cash (Folsom Prison Blues).
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This is a detailed discography for American rock and roll, country, and gospel singer-songwriter Jerry Lee Lewis (1935–2022). One of the pioneers of rockabilly, Lewis recorded over 40 albums in a career spanning seven decades. Lewis was a versatile artist, and recorded songs in multiple genres.
Jerry Lee Lewis scored a string of classic rock and roll songs such as Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On and the UK Official Singles Chart Number 1 Great Balls Of Fire.
The title track, a weeper written by Dallas Frazier, is pretty good, though the album's real highlight is "You Helped Me Up (When The World Let Me Down)" and the campier "When Baby Gets The Blues," and the morose, defeatist "Coming Back For More," honkytonk gems that are all buried on the album's second side.
Aug 26, 2022 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2022 CD release of "Jimmy Lee & Jerry Lee: The Boys From Ferriday" on Discogs.
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- Live At The Star-Club, Hamburg. PHILIPS, 1964; REISSUED BEAR FAMILY 2010. A howling beast of an album, with Jerry Lee (backed by The Nashville Teens) on world-conquering form playing to a feral crowd of liquored-up Hamburg rockers on April 5, 1964.
- Up Through The Years 1956-1963. BEAR FAMILY 2010. During Lewis’s days at Sun, he not only defined rock’n’roll piano playing for all time, but tackled country, hillbilly, R&B, blues, gospel, vaudeville standards and anything else that wasn’t nailed down.
- Killer – The Mercury Years Volume Three 1973 – 1977. POLYGRAM 1989; REISSUED SPECTRUM 1999. Jerry Lee’s work rate during his time with Mercury was formidable – five albums of new material in 1969 alone – and the pace barely slowed in the ’70s.
- Rockin’ My Life Away – The Jerry Lee Lewis Collection. WARNERS 2000. The Ferriday, Louisiana wildman was 45 when the ’70s ended, and nailed his colours to the mast with Rockin’ My Life Away, taken from the LP simply called Jerry Lee Lewis.
Feb 20, 2020 · Jerry Lee Lewis said he recently completed work on a new album, despite suffering a stroke last year that left him convinced he’d never play piano again.
Jerry Lee Lewis is the debut album by American musician and rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, released in 1958 on Sun Records . Background and content. The album featured Lewis's hit "High School Confidential", but producer Sam Phillips did not include Lewis's bigger hits such as "Great Balls of Fire" and " Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On ."
