He loved Gene Autry, and Hank Williams - and he loved Al Jolson. Jerry Lee Lewis was a young piano player from Ferriday, Louisiana, who loved music more than anything. So now we’re going to have to back up, and look at the first hit record from the last great artist to be discovered by Sun Records. So now we’ve got to the point where he’s about to have his first hit, but we haven’t really looked at how he got to that point, just at him interacting with other people. He’s someone who just dominates other people’s stories, and pushes in to them and takes over.
The problem is that Jerry Lee Lewis is just the kind of figure who demands discussion, even before he became a famous musician. And we also talked about Lewis a fortnight ago, when we were dealing with Billy Lee Riley, but again, the focus was on someone other than Lewis. The first time we looked at Jerry Lee Lewis, it was as part of the Million Dollar Quartet, yet at the time of the actual Million Dollar Quartet session, Lewis was basically an unknown, and we didn’t have time to cover his career up to that point - even though the Million Dollar Quartet recordings prove that he considered himself a peer of Elvis and Carl Perkins right from the start. We’re in an odd position with this episode, really. This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. There are many budget CDs containing Lewis’ pre-1962 work. The episode of Cocaine and Rhinestones I mention in the episode is here. This one by Rick Bragg is better than most. I’m relying heavily on Sam Phillips: the Man Who Invented Rock and Rollby Peter Guralnick for all the episodes dealing with Phillips and Sun Records.īooks on Jerry Lee Lewis tend to be very flawed, as the authors all tend to think they’re Faulkner rather than giving the facts.
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