Jerry Lee Lewis: Live From Austin Texas
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LEWIS,JERRY LEE
EAN: 0607396804221
Format: DVD-Video, Live, NTSC, Surround Sound
Label: New West Records
Manufacturer: New West Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: New West Records
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 26, 2007
Running Time: 55 minutes
Sales Rank: 16417
Studio: New West Records
Theatrical Release Date: June 26, 2007
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
From the vaults of the award-winning PBS Austin City Limits TV show, this is the latest release in the acclaimed Live From Austin, TX series.
Rock and Roll s the thing, and Jerry Lee s the King... or so said an English fan once upon a time somewhere. Elvis fans might dispute that title, but nobody else in the history of popular music would dare call himself The Killer. Of all the legends who came out of Sun Records in the 1950s Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison no one would have bet the last one standing would be the pill-popping, whiskey-guzzling, gun-waving hellion from Ferriday, La. Except The Killer, of course.
Jerry Lee Lewis took black rhythm & blues, white gospel and other funky Mississippi sounds and turned them into rock and roll. But Jerry Lee s life also is, and has always been, his piano; he has kicked and banged and set on fire (literally) many of them over the course of six-plus decades.
He almost never made it to Austin City Limits. He cancelled one appearance, and only weeks before this recording on October 17, 1983, his wife died in a freak swimming pool accident at their home. But he did make it, and what we have here is one of the most amazing performances ever to go down on the ACL stage. Throughout the day he was a perfect gentleman, showing up on time and acting very graciously to one and all, but once he hit the stage, all hell broke loose. The songs speak for themselves; they re ALL here.
For many years later, Jerry Lee would carry a tape of this show to play for friends (and himself, many times). When producers tried to book him again for a return performance, the response was, Jerry Lee doesn t think he could possibly do a better show.
This DVD captures all the hits and more, and includes songs that were never aired on the original TV broadcast.
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