![]() ![]() Five outtakes from the show that comprised By Request and 10 never-before-released cuts from the Las Vegas set prove that Lewis' rockabilly spirit was never in full recession. counterparts, 1964's The Greatest Live Show on Earth and 1966's By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth, can hardly be considered disappointments.īy the 1970 release of Live at the International, Las Vegas, Lewis had found a second wind by embracing more traditional country tunes, starting with 1968's Top 5 Country comeback, "Another Place, Another Time." This vein is deeply explored on the latter half of the set's second disc, with renditions of country singles "She Still Comes Around (to Love What's Left of Me)" and "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye," as well as two tracks with lead vocals from Lewis' sister, Linda Gail Lewis.īut as the third disc shows, once a Killer, always a Killer. Lewis' honky-tonk style and spontaneous fire was best served on this disc, although the U.S. It didn't hurt that the LP was an absolute ripper, to this day a firm contender for one of the greatest live albums in rock history. ![]() (Lewis was 22.)īut the release of "Live" at the Star-Club, Hamburg in Europe in 1964 saw the continent take him back some. Five years before signing to Smash Records after his Sun Records contract expired in 1963, Lewis career had halted when a British journalist reported that he had married his first cousin, only 13 years old. The Killer Live! 1964-1970 collates, for the first time on CD, four underrated live records from the irascible rocker's lengthy career - beginning at a time when the world had passed The Killer by. But we wouldn't be doing our jobs right if we didn't elaborate on that one for you! This week's Release Round-Up gave some illumination on Hip-o Select's latest, a triple-disc anthology of live material from the one and only Jerry Lee Lewis. ![]()
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