Jerry Lee Lewis, his sister's amazing too!

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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis, 7th time lucky?

I just read that story, and following that family tree is more than I can comprehend. Kind of like the tree goes straight up, with no branches.

Tom C.
 
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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis, 7th time lucky?

Jerry Lee is indeed a very strange man, from a very strange family.

I've liked his music since I was a kid. If you like his rock 'n roll get Live At The Star Club, an amphetamine and alcohol fueled performance that makes you want an amp that goes to eleven. The country sessions he did for Smash/Mercury in the '60s and '70s contain some real gems. After a stroke and a long dry spell, the guy comes back with two really great albums in recent years.

I saw him around 1979 and his stage persona was rather annoying, but the music was great. There's only one Jerry Lee Lewis. 8)
 
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Here is a nice piece of him and ELH in a loosey goosey performance. Someones been nipping, hmmmm :roll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8gRBkQ5puk

Always liked "The Killer", ever since I first heard his material when I was about the same age as his first wife :D , still like his piano style.
Wonder if Jimmy Swaggart officiated at the wedding :twisted:

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Now his cousin Rusty (his ex-wife Myra's brother) can call him up & ask him,
"How's My Ex Treating You"?

I have to confess, this guy is my all-time music hero. The best of his Mercury/Smash record recordings from say 1963-1972, is the greatest music I've ever heard. His voice was unearthly back in those days. He could go from a shout to a yodel in less than a millisecond and then bring it back down to a ground-rumbling roar.

But I had to face-palm on this one. The new wife was married to Myra's brother? OMG! That's his first cousin. :shock:

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But if anyone is interested, this boxed set might spin your head around.
Only $175 used on EBay & worth every penny.

Here's but one example from that era. The soaring falsetto, the
low rumble, the stacatto Rockabilly delivery, it's all here. And it's
in almost everything he recorded back in those days.

I haven't heard anyone sing like this before or since.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMENFdQOPD4
 
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He explains some of the family tree here. (I've never heard of a 'double-first cousin' before. But apparently they exist in his family.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW1nx51ITgw

I know one thing, he's the only one I've heard put a Dixieland trio & a pedal steel guitar together
and then yodel along with the band.

It takes a genius to see that Country & Dixieland down deep,
are close relatives. Jerry Lee saw that back in the 1950's
and every now & then, he'd use that arrangement trick.
 
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Re: Jerry Lee Lewis, 7th time lucky?

silverfox103 said:
I just read that story, and following that family tree is more than I can comprehend. Kind of like the tree goes straight up, with no branches.
Tom C.
Click to expand...
So the apples really can't fall far from it, eh? :lol:
 
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