Description
Release Date: 2013
Label: Not Now Music
Track List
CD 1
1. Great Balls Of Fire
2. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
3. Sweet Little Sixteen
4. Big Blon’ Baby
5. Mean Woman Blues
6. Lovin’ Up A Storm
7. Hello Josephine
8. Money
9. It’ll Be Me
10. Little Queenie
11. Livin’ Lovin’ Wreck
12. Down The Line
13. Break Up
14. Don’t Be Cruel
15. Ubangi Stomp
16. Put Me Down
17. Lets Talk About Us
18. Bonnie B
19. It Won’t Happen To Me
20. Good Golly Miss Molly
CD 2
1. High School Confidential
2. Crazy Arms
3. You Win Again
4. Cold Cold Heart
5. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
6. As Long As I Live
7. John Henry
8. I’ll Sail My Ship Alone
9. It All Depends (On Who Will Buy The Wine)
10. Ramblin’ Rose
11. Frankie And Johnny
12. When I Get Paid
13. Turn Around
14. I Can’t Trust Me (In Your Arms Anymore)
15. Hello Hello Baby
16. Love’s Made A Fool Of Me
17. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You
18. Home
19. Old Black Joe
20. In The Mood
CD 3
1. What’d I Say
2. Breathless
3. Matchbox
4. Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
5. Lewis Boogie
6. How’s My Ex Treating You?
7. I’m Feeling Sorry
8. I Get The Blues When It Rains
9. When The Saints Go Marching In
10. Fools Like Me
11. Ballad Of Billy Joe
12. I’ve Been Twistin’
13. It Hurt Me So
14. I’ll Make It Up To You
15. Country Music Is Here to Stay
16. Goodnight Irene
17. Baby Baby, Bye Bye
18. The Return Of Jerry Lee
19. Save The Last Dance For Me
20. End Of The Road
Notes
Put simply, Jerry Lee Lewis was one of the most influential artists in rock‘n’roll. Like labelmates Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash at Sun Records in Memphis, he helped shape the formative years of the genre, giving it new levels of depth with his blues-inspired boogie-woogie piano-playing. In later years, he would move on to country music, finding yet more success. The man known as ‘the Killer’ has enjoyed a career spanning nearly six decades and has influenced generations of musicians around today, Elton John being just one.
A native of Ferriday, Louisiana, where he was born in 1935, Lewis began playing the piano at an early age. While he was steered in the direction of Christian music, he was far more interested in boogie-woogie, R&B and blues. Chastised by his community as playing ‘the Devil’s music’, Lewis’ rebellious streak was visible from childhood.
He soon migrated to Mississippi, playing piano in the local bars, before he incorporated guitar into his repertoire and headed to Memphis at the tail end of 1956. It would be a move that changed his life. He cut a track for Sun, the local label that had been the launchpad for the young Elvis Presley. But Presley had just left for RCA and Sun was on the lookout for a new star. Lewis was their man. On hearing him, Sun owner Sam Philips described it as a dream come true.
