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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Work, great work, and fun work give it 6 stars,
By Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killer Country (Audio CD)
It is something of a crime that of all the music JLL recorded during his Mercury Smash years, only the country ballads charted and entered the memory of the broader cultural maintstream. Because the rock and roll he was doing when he was doing it then was among the better stuff anyone ever recorded (see his London Session Album for example).Having said that I realize that those ballads Another Place, What Made Milwakee Famous, She Even Woke Me Up, Once More with Feeling, and Middle Age Crazy, are simply masterpieces. The range, maturity, and feeling he put into them will make them last forever. The other cuts on this album include some great stuff, particularly if you are into the entire JLL experience, because he lets himself go and be himself in a lot of the less serious cuts, shows what can be done in mixing wildness, wisdom and yes Rock and Roll. Working Man's blues is a real work of art and gives you the idea that perhaps that Jimmie Burton who played the guitar on Haggard's version of the tune and on JLL's (and I am not sure probably produced the cut as he did several later JLL records) is the person this song really belongs to. If you like this, you ought to find the complete Mercury recordings that include some of the greatest cuts of rock and roll, blues, and both hot and cold country amid JLL's typical wildness, vanity, and various not so bright ideas by Mercury. Or if you want the real Lewis Experience, see if you can find the two live Albums he did for Smash: The Greatest In the years these records came out, there is no doubt that JLL was one of the greatest artists doing rock and roll, country, and blues. This is JLL 30 years ago. That he is still out there rocking now that he is in his late sixties says something great (although it also speaks to his inability to get along with the IRS LOL)
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Don't give up on ol' Jerry Lee!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Killer Country (Audio CD)
Hey, no question, the man has played his "Killer" rock 'n roll shtick into the ground, but the real deal is that Jerry Lee Lewis at one time could sing the bejeezus out of several damn good country songs. This collection is only partly representative of his C & W best, but what's here is primo. "What Made Milwaukee Famous," "She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye" and "Think About it, Darlin'" are as good a set of ballad performances as he's ever given; "Pee Wee's Place" and his hi-tooled barrel through "Me and Bobby McGee" are Jerry Lee honky-tonk classics; and his empathy with that poor "Middle Age Crazy tryin' to prove he still can" is really hard to miss. Great rock 'n roller, to be sure, but Jerry Lee Lewis is probably an even better country singer and this collection goes a long way towards proving it.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's the LAST 4 songs that really get me... OUSTANDING Jerry Lee!!!,
By Blues For Eric (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killer Country (Audio CD)
Someone mentioned the first twelve songs as being all good, and that may well be, but, for my money it's the LAST four songs that really get to me. "Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano", "Middle Age Crazy", "You're All Too Ugly Tonight", and (especially) "A Damn Good Country Song" are by all means my favorite Jerry Lee (and I absolutely love his live performances and his classic Sun songs), but it just doesn't get any better than the honesty, humor, and fine vocal form Jerry is in when he belts out these alternately soothing and seething modern country classics. Jerry Lee takes songs that in other hands might be ordinary and, by virtue of his vocal and pianistic genius, turns them into all-time country classics. I'll take a country classic by Jerry Lee against anything recorded by anyone in the last nearly two decades. They just don't make 'em like they used to, and Jerry Lee, the very spirit of rock & roll personified, created some of the greatest rock, country, AND blues recordings of all-time. How many others can lay legitimate claim to mastery of all three of these musical genres, and not only that, he turns ANY style of music he sings into Jerry Lee Lewis music. A master, a genius, a hell-raiser, and an aspiring angel with broken wings (someone once said rock & roll is where God and the Devil shake hands, but it's always difficult when the pressure to choose one OR the other is seemingly omnipresent). Nevertheless, Jerry Lee, in all his glorious hard-living raucousness, has a heart of pure, if somewhat tarnished, gold, and you can hear it in these great country songs: beautifully done, classy (in a universe where "classy" and "trashy" can peacefully co-exist), heartfelt, and honest. You can't ask for any more than that. Enjoy the genius that is Jerry Lee Lewis.
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