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Customer Review
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2012In the sleeve-notes to this cheap collection of primitive but powerful piano-driven rock-and-roll, Now Dig This magazine writer Chris Woodford notes:
Jerry Lee Lewis has rocked and rolled through six marriages, drunk enough whisky to float a battleship and popped pills as if they were M and M's... He's been bankrupted and jailed - once for using Elvis's Graceland home as a shooting gallery, and on more than one occasion has recovered from major surgery.
Clearly then, a lot has happened in the personal life of Jerry Lee Lewis. But it is to his long musical career which we should look. This 20 track CD - from Demon Music Group's long running budget label Music Club - does that pretty effectively. It includes some of his very best songs, and all were recorded for the legendary Sun label, between the late 1950s and the early 1960s. There are a number of the boisterous transatlantic 45s - like 'Great Balls Of Fire', 'Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On', and 'High School Confidential' - with which he found fame. There are some intriguing records which never got released in the 1950s, such as 'Milkshake Mademoiselle' and 'Pink Pedal Pushers', that are not usually included on collections like The Best Of Jerry Lee Lewis. And there are also a couple of classic tracks by other great artists, like Ray Charles' 'What'd I Say, and Hank Williams' 'You Win Again', that 'The Killer' manages to make his own, breaking things up quite nicely.
