Another Place Another Time: She Even Woke [Original recording reissued]

Jerry Lee Lewis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 5, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Raven [Australia]
• ASIN: B00006RHRV
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,531 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #88 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Oldies & Retro

Track Listings

1. Whats Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)

2. Play Me A Song I Can Cry To

3. On The Back Row

4. Walking The Floor Over You

5. All Night Long

6. Im A Lonesome Fugitive

7. Another Place Another Time

8. Break My Mind

9. Before The Next Teardrop Falls

10. All The Good Is Gone

11. We Live In Two Different Worlds (Duet With Linda Gail Lewis)

12. Once More With Feeling

13. Workin Man Blues

14. Waiting For A Train

15. Brown Eyed Handsome Man

16. My Only Claim To Fame

17. Since I Met You Baby

18. She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye

19. Wine Me Up

20. When The Grass Grows Over Me

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of his best work, and thus among THE BEST, June 6, 2003

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Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Another Place Another Time: She Even Woke (Audio CD)

These recordings are among the most commercially successful country records ever done. Moreover, they are among the most artistically successful recordings done by anyone doing straight bar brand country music. JLL just kills these songs, he makes them all personal, he makes them all live, and makes you believe he has lived them.
Contrary to what some others say, JLL has been doing his own interpretations of the country classics since his original sun records the 1950s. His version of Crazy Arms (from 56 or 57 I believe) redefined the song. his version of You Win Again did something rare. He took a song away from Hank Williams. Today if you played or sang Hanks version of the song anywhere, it wouldnt be recognized, and wouldn't be as good as the standard way JLL does it. He did all kinds of country standards during the late 50s and early 1960s when Sun had him doing hundreds of recordings to be salted away until he made a come back.
JLL's work in the 1960s before these country recordings was not "in the wilderness." Some of the rock albums he did for Mercury Smah and Mercury represent some of the best rock and rockabilly recordings ever made, more mature musically, but wilder than things he did in the 1950. Get the two live recordings, one from Panther Hall in Houston, the other from Birmingham if you want to see the light.
It is interesting that these country side are a triumph of JLL as a singer. he barely plays the piano on some selections, on the last selections he plays no piano at all, but these are all classics. Anyone around anywhere where any music was coming off a radio or a juke box anywhere during the late 1960s and eary 1970s heard these songs.
This is among Jerry's best. That means it is among the world's greatest.
Dont forget JLL is still rocking his life away at 66 years old he is still pounding that piano!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Killer Country, November 27, 2004

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Kevin Fontenot (New Orleans, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Place Another Time: She Even Woke (Audio CD)

In the late 1960s Jerry Lee Lewis moved back to the music he grew up with--country music. This disc brings together 2 of his very best country albums for Smash/Mercury plus few cuts from a third. The music is fine late 1960s honky tonk style, with excellent readings of some Merle Haggard, Webb Pierce, and Jimmie Rodgers songs. Some of Lewis' finest country titles are here, including "Another Time, Another Place." I especially enjoy his performance with Linda Gail Lewis on "We Live In Two Different Worlds," simply one of the best songs Fred Rose ever wrote. Of course some rockabilly rowdiness slips in, it would not be the Killer without it. Essential country music for the true country fan.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Start here, May 20, 2003

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Patrick Wall (Waterford, Wateford Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Another Place Another Time: She Even Woke (Audio CD)

As another reviewer said, this is the place to start when it comes to true 1960s country. Not only that, but without this artist country would not have existed in its pure form anymore. In the 1960s and 1970s, it was all that country-rock and Nashville sound (now, yes, JLL can 'rock' but when he rocks, he rocks, when he does country he does country, when he does blues he does blues and he can get religious if required as well. In other words, he can do it all as it SHOULD be done). This album goes against all prevailing trends and gets back to the hard-core oldtime honky toink sound. Along with Moon Mullican ("I'll pour the wine", "This glass I hold", "Love that might have been", "Love don't have a guarentee", etc.) and maybe one or two others, JLL was the only true honky tonker around then.

1968 was a great year to start a country career for JLL. He did a lot for music in general. "Another place another time", "Play me a song I can cry to" and "On the back row" all are the ultimate in honky tonk experience and are all sung with a blues feel and really connect with the listener. This was like Hank singing "You win again" or Moon singing "Oh she's gone but not fogotten". Bluesy country with a real, sincere feel.

This album ended 10 years in the wilderness for JLL. Formerly a rock 'n' roll hitmaker, his real success was found in country music and this 1968 album was the start of 14 years of hits. Why JLL did not concentrate on country until now remains a mystery. But, by 1968, he was wanted. He was the only living singer/pianist in country (Moon had died the year before and JLL had to keep up the tradition of that type of country). JLL was doing soul in 1967 (just as convincing as he had done blues and country before and later), but his versatility is shown when he does a full 180 degree turn from pure soul to pure country in the space of 6 months. From 1968 on to 1981, JLL was rarely out of the charts. His blues, soul and gospel roots came out in his country, too. However, JLL never wanted to be part of the modern 'country-rock' circle and was always the rootsier alternative (with his own roots-based hybrid of country, gospel, western swing, blues and soul). This fine album is original JLL country material at its best. It should lead the listener to buy the many box sets.