Jerry Lee Lewis – An Appreciation
I was sad to hear of the death of Jerry Lee Lewis. He was by far and away the most electrifying performer I have ever seen. His musical legacy is substantial and needs to be celebrated. Jerry Lee Lewis is much too much for people. In an age which loves idols to worship, Jerry Lee was never cut out to be a pop idol. He is something of a snake inching its way into the garden. He knew himself to be a sinner, and said so often enough. He carried on sinning regardless. People like their rebellions to be safe, their outlaws on the inside and playing by the rules. Jerry Lee Lewis could never have faked it. And he never tried. He blew it early on. In fact, he had hardly made it when he threw it away. I don’t need to read a long list of Jerry Lee’s transgressions. And I don’t have time to waste separating fact from fiction, establishing contexts, and offering explanations. It always ends up sounding like an exercise in apologetics, which convinces no one. Jerry Lee Lewis learned to stop justifying himself and never give a damn what people thought of him. People believe what they want to believe, and are free to judge and condemn. There is plenty that Jerry Lee Lewis said and plenty that he did that I would disapprove of. That Jerry Lee Lewis’ somewhat problematic character has been the main topic of conversation in the aftermath of his death is Lewis’ ultimate tragedy. His towering abilities have fallen into the shadow of his notoriety. I simply focus on the thing that attracted me in the first place and held me all these years – the music.
I heard of Lewis’ death from my brother. My first reaction was to go off and listen to all my old records. I played them all in order, from 1957 to 2014, revisiting old memories. Jerry Lee Lewis was a favourite in our house, as was Elvis. The old Elvis-Jerry Lee rivalry was a live issue in our house. My mum always knew that the best way to get me to hold forth on how great Elvis was was to play some Jerry Lee Lewis. I not only heard the threat, I felt it deep in the bones. Jerry Lee Lewis was one formidable force of nature. It’s all a nonsense, of course. But very entertaining nonsense. For all of the common sources, Elvis and Jerry Lee were doing something different, each as valid as the other in its own special way. One thing is certain – Jerry Lee Lewis was an immense talent. He was powerful, incendiary, dangerous. He had an edge. He had a sentimental streak a mile wide.
“Lewis’ death has been announced any number of times this last decade,” Greil Marcus wrote in 1975s Mystery Train, “but I have a hunch he’ll be the last to go.” And so he was. One by one, all the titans left the building, but Jerry Lee kept going. Remarkably. he was the last man standing (and, no less remarkably, still at liberty). He was the wild one, that’s for sure. Approve, disapprove, it matters not. He’s gone to the one true judge now, and it is there and there alone where the sincerity of the contrition he showed over the years will be judged. All the rest of us can do, if we have any sense, is listen to the songs he has left as his true legacy. He’s been his own man, but not without remorse. In the end, though, he made his departure as he had lived: "I am what I am, not what you want me to be." That sounds like good advice to me. There’s nothing worse than bending your character in order to conform to the expectations of others. You cannot live in the opinion of others and shouldn’t waste precious time and energy making the effort.
I had the absolute honour of seeing Jerry Lee Lewis at the King’s Dock in Liverpool in 2001. I told myself beforehand not to get carried away by the legend and mythology. I had seen how the inflation of image had taken Elvis further and further away from his true self, with people idolising past memory and personal fantasy as the real Elvis slipped further and further from view. I intended to put history to one side and just go along and appreciate the man and his music. That commitment lasted the second that Jerry Lee took the stage. He came striding on like a colossus. This guy had charisma plus or something. People talk about feeling the hair standing up at the back of their necks. I felt as though the skin had raised off my body. And I came to understand how Elvis had come to be consumed by the adulation he generated. It wasn’t based on nothing, mere delusion or projected fantasies. These guys had ‘something,’ something that was innate as well as earned, something that could be bought and sold only at the expense of turning true material into a counterfeit. They had history. Jerry Lee Lewis was the last man standing. And now he’s gone. With the history-makers departed, the way is open for history’s re-writers to get to work to cut the facts down to their miserable mediocre moralising size. But the tales of those with firsthand knowledge will survive, to alongside the music and the footage. The guy who was sat next to me that night in Liverpool said he had seen Jerry Lee in the sixties. “He was crackers,” he said slowly as he screwed up his face. He didn’t say anything else, he just shook his uncomprehending head at me as if what he had witnessed was beyond words and explanation.
Is Jerry Lee Lewis still persona non grata? Very probably. In fact, he’s probably even more of a non-person now than he ever was. To the charge sheet, I would add the very abusive things he said about my idol Elvis Presley. And none of it makes one jot of difference to Jerry Lee’s music. I like things raw and real. And I mistrust the people who are quick to hold others to angelic standards. Not least because the same people can be found abusing Cliff Richard, someone who has lived a good, clean life. But, then, I have always considered rock’n’roll rebellion to be phony to the core. I have never ever made the mistake of looking to pop, rock, or any musical form for politics and ethics. The early fall of Jerry Lee Lewis made clear the extent to which rock’n’roll was a safe transgression that would come down hard on the real transgressors, if their faces didn’t fit. Plenty did get away with it, it should be noted. The very first song on the very first Beatles album was ‘I Saw Her Standing There.’ It contains the line, ‘well she was just seventeen, you know what I mean.’ Not many of those blues, rock, soul and R&B artists lived what we could call pure lives. But, then, who is without sin? I call the moralisers bluff whenever they make an issue of this. I demand the reinstatement of the old overarching and authoritative moral framework centred on a belief in God. If you think that human beings can go it alone, well, each person chooses the good as they see fit. It’s a world of men as gods, or, just as easily, devils, since in the absence of objective standards of evaluation it is impossible to differentiate one from the other. It comes down to likes and dislikes, things and people we approve of and things and people we disapprove of. The standards are utterly arbitrary.
Jerry Lee never was invited to join The Outlaws. He was too hot to handle, he always was.
Credence's John Fogerty said that getting to know “The Killer” was very different from some of his other idols: “Jerry Lee Lewis is a little more . . . um . . . distant, I guess you would say. You just feel like you're walking on eggshells a little bit. So you . . . you're very careful. Which I was, anyway.”
I'm careful and cautious by nature, but try to embrace people with their flaws without thereby condoning their behaviour, still less sharing it. I never saw pop and rock stars as role models. I found the whole idea most bizarre. But I don’t discard people on account of their flaws. If it is a flawless existence you seek, then you will be a long time looking, and very disappointed at the end. Lives are never so simple, nor so shapely. Not if they are truly lived, with all the risk that entails, rather than held in abeyance.
If you can, listen to the “religious discussion” that Jerry Lee had in the studio with producer Sam Phillips when recording “Great Balls of Fire.” Heavens! These boys got a remarkable emotional charge from religion. Jerry Lee thought “Great Balls of Fire” referred to Hell and argued the point at length with producer Sam Phillips. He then cut a rock’n’roll classic. Jerry Lee Lewis was part of that generation which blurred the fine line separating the holy and the profane. There was no dividing line for the likes of Jerry Lee and Elvis. Jerry Lee walked the line and fell off it more than a few times. Who doesn't? Well, maybe most of us don’t fall off so many times, nor fall so big. I look for contrition, mercy, and forgiveness. Without those things, we are all in trouble.
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Jerry Lee Lewis knew himself to be a sinner. He told us it was so often enough. It’s the people who are so big on the sins of others as to be neglectful of their own who worry me the most. Judging by how loud and insistent they are on others' errant ways, and how silent they are with respect to their own behaviours, one could almost think them to be sinless. I have no time for public statements of moral purity. We are all of us erring creatures, and contrition is personal, something that starts with the self, and is never to be publicly forced or exhibited. It's the inerrants of this world that I'm most wary of (most especially those who are most vocal in the most fallen world of politics).
Jerry Lee Lewis is a fascinating figure. I love his work in the sixties. It's inspiring to see the man whose world has collapsed, fame and fortune crumbling to nothing, reinvent himself as a very unique country artist. Tom Jones, for one, was still listening, and got his breakthrough hit ‘Green Green Grass of Home’ and three other tracks from Jerry Lee’s Country Songs For City Folks album from 1965.
I rate Jerry Lee Lewis most highly. There's a joy, a boundlessness, and a pain to his music, and a recognition that there is a price to be paid for trangression. I love how he swings wildly between arrogance and humility. Or what seems like humility, a humbling, a humiliation. He very quickly bounces back to being his old bombastic self. He may well have been incorrigible. It may all even-out somewhere someday. I like that Jerry Lee treated his detractors and denigrators with due contempt. They were out to destroy him and he knew it. He was involved in a fight for survival, and he developed a hard shell. At the same time, he submitted himself nakedly to God’s judgement. He once famously claimed to have the devil in him. But he wasn’t a devil. He had redemptive qualities. It’s the unforgiving nature of human judgement that gives me the greatest cause for concern.
Jerry Lee regularly pondered whether he would go to Heaven or Hell. He hoped for Heaven but doubted that that was his destination. Since many are quick to point out the trouble, turmoil, pain, and anguish that Jerry Lee Lewis caused for others, it bears repetition that no one knew this more than Jerry Lee himself. If there are people who refuse to forget the past, I’m here to remind the world that the music that Jerry Lee Lewis made is the most important and most enduring part of that past.
I have a big Jerry Lee vinyl collection, but next to nothing on CD. I bought Jerry Lee years before the CD player was on the market, and I never got round to making the conversion.
Jerry Lee’s rock’n’roll sides are incendiary, but check out his country songs. For all of the power and force in his rock sides, there is an ache, a pain, and a heartbreak in his country sides.
“You try to do something to stem the flow of heartache.” (Jerry Lee Lewis)
Those who are still determined to judge need to check something of the man’s troubled history. “The loss of my mother and two sons got to me. I was drinking heavy. I needed a fifth of tequli just to sober up. I couldn’t cut a record. It wasn’t the marriages that brought me down .. it was the passin’ of the caskets.”
God bless Jerry Lee Lewis, may he Rest in Peace. However unlikely that prospect may seem to most, I think and, most importantly, I believe Jerry Lee himself sincerely believed some such thing to be more than possible. I doubt that God would refuse one so troubled.
A medley of Jerry Lee’s country hits: “Once More With Feeling," "Another Time, Another Place," "What Made Milwaukee Famous," and "One Minute Past Eternity."
I like my Hank Williams neat. Most everyone recorded Hank Williams’ songs, some doing entire albums, putting strings on and everything. I prefer to hear Hank Williams sing Hank Williams. Oddly, Elvis sang very few Hank Williams songs, from which clueless critics conclude that Elvis wasn’t a fan. He was. He just felt that once Hank Williams had done a song, the song was done. Elvis sang Hank Williams songs in private (“I Can’t Help It” for one). He sang “You’re Cheatin’ Heart” in 1957, but refused to release it (it came out long after Elvis died). And in front of a billion people, in the Aloha from Hawaii satellite concert of 1973, he sang “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Which says something.
Jerry Lee Lewis’ version of the song is my favourite version.
Jerry Lee Lewis I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry
And then there is this. You either have to be impossibly young or incredibly disappointed to sing this one with depth and meaning.
I love the version of End of the Road Jerry Lee performed at the end of the Million Dollar Quartet session (with Elvis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash).
Well the way is dark / The night is long
I don't care if I never get home / I'm waiting
At the end of the road
I always misheard the next line as ‘Take your foot slap it on the floor / When you get to Hell, we'll rock some more.’
I swear Jerry Lee sings it as ‘Hell’ and not ‘ahead’ as written.
In the motion picture Great Balls of Fire, Jerry Lee is portrayed as an unrepentant rock’n’roller, declaring, "If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano!" The film pauses before the closing credits to display the caption "Jerry Lee Lewis is playing his heart out somewhere in America tonight."
So long, Killer. There’s no music in Hell as portrayed by Dante. There will be if Jerry Lee is sent down that way.
Oh, and when Jerry Lee had finished and left the stage at the King’s Dock back in 2001, I turned to the man to my right and just shook my head in incomprehension, too. “Great, isn’t he?” is all he said.
He was something.
“He was some kind of man,” Marlene Dietrich says of the character that Orson Welles plays in Touch of Evil, before asking “what does it matter what you say about people?”
If the people who are quick to judge pressed me on my admiration of Jerry Lee Lewis, I will take my stand, without either shame or apology, on the man’s music. I’ll leave the man to God. I feel able to judge his music. Which is how Jerry Lee Lewis wanted to be judged – he knew he could stand that test:
“When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.”
Jerry Lee Lewis will be remembered. And for the right reasons.
Jerry Lee Lewis – Songs and Albums
There is never any substitute for listening to the entirety of an artist’s catalogue. But time is always pressing and selection has to be made. Back in the 1990s coming into the 2000s I would produce playlists for the local shops, cassettes with 45 minutes of music each way. To do this, I got into the habit of rating the songs of favourite bands and singers. It seems a crime against music, but served a practical purpose. People want the cream of the crop, leaving the rest for specialists and fanatics. My ratings are based on a mix of personal taste, objective assessment, and judgement as to what ‘most people’ would appreciate. When it comes to personal taste, I will admit that whilst I do love country music, I am not a hard-core fanatic. I give the score of “7” to many country songs which, to my ears, sound similar to one another. If you love country music, then you may well be inclined to add a point.
Here is the key to the ratings
10 – Essential.
9 - Very good, tracks that any music lover could appreciate and should hear.
8 – Good, tracks that any fan of the artist will like.
7 – Tracks for those who wish to investigate further, but which those without a particular interest can overlook. Here is where I place many recordings which, though decent enough, are fairly standard fare.
6 – Just lacking something.
Basically, anything that scores “10” and “9” indicate tracks that will be played through all eternity. “8” should also be heard. Anything below “8” is on your own time at your own discretion. In my view.
It remains to add that this list is far from being a complete discography. In time, I intend to add further Jerry Lee Lewis recordings (I am currently listening to the Kilroy Sessions from 1987, absent here. It’s a work in progress).
Jerry Lee Lewis 1958
Side A
"Don't Be Cruel" (Otis Blackwell) 2:00 8
"Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter) 2:52 8
"Put Me Down" (Roland Janes) 2:06 7
"It All Depends" (Billy Mize) 2:57 8
"Ubangi Stomp" (Charles Underwood) 1:44 7
"Crazy Arms" (Ralph Mooney, Chuck Seals) 2:41 10
Side B
"Jambalaya" (Hank Williams) 1:57 6
"Fools like Me" (Jack Clement, Murphy Maddux) 2:48 9
"High School Confidential" (Jerry Lee Lewis, Ron Hargrave) 2:27 10
"When the Saints Go Marching In" (Traditional) 2:06 7
"Matchbox" (Carl Perkins) 1:40 8
"It'll Be Me" (Jack Clement) 2:12 10
Good Rockin’ Tonight
High School Confidential
You Are My Sunshine
Good Rockin' Tonight
Save The Last Dance For Me
Pink Pedal Pushers
What'd I Say
As Long As I Live
Hang Up My Rock And Roll Shoes
Pumpin' Piano Rock
Hound Dog
Kickin' Up A Storm
Home 1:54
Little Queenie 2:21
Friday Night 1:39
Frankie And Johnny 2:29
Big Blon' Baby 1:38
Lovin' Up A Storm 1:49
Hillbilly Fever 2:03
I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You 2:20
It All Depends (Who Will Buy The Wine) 2:55
I'll Sail My Ship Alone 2:05
Bonnie B 2:16
As Long As I Live 2:23
Night Train To Memphis 2:06
Mexicali Rose 1:31
In The Mood (Inst.) 2:16
Great Balls of Fire
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On (Dave Williams, Sunny David)
You Win Again (Hank Williams)
Break Up (Charlie Rich)
I'll Make It All Up To You (Charlie Rich)
What'd I Say (Ray Charles)
Breathless (Otis Blackwell)
High School Confidential (Ronald Hargrave, Jerry Lee Lewis)
It'll Be Me (Jack H. Clement)
Lovin' Up A Storm (Khent, Dixon)
Great Balls Of Fire (Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer)
Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry)
Milkshake Mademoiselle (Jack Hammer)
I'll Sail My Ship Alone (Burns, Mann, Thurston, Bernhard)
Mean Woman Blues (Claude De Metruis)
Lewis Boogie (Jerry Lee Lewis)
No More Than I Get (Stan Kesler)
I Know What It Means (Stan Kesler)
Good Golly Miss Molly (Bumps Blackwell, John Marascalco)
The Jerry Lee Lewis Collection
Be Bop-A-Lula (Gene Vincent, Tex Davis) 2:29
Dixie (Instrumental) (Tr. Arr. Jerry Lee Lewis) 1:34
Goodnight Irene (Huddie Ledbetter, John Lomax) 2:53
Great Balls Of Fire Written-By – Jack Hammer, Otis Blackwell 1:53
High School Confidential (Lewis, Ron Hargrave) 2:29
Lewis Boogie (Jerry Lee Lewis) 2:07
Matchbox (Carl Perkins) 1:44
Money (Berry Gordy, Janie Bradford) 2:36
Sixty Minute Man (Billy Ward, Rose Marks) 1:49
Ubangi Stomp (Charles Underwood) 1:47
Whole Lotta Shakin' Going (Dave Williams, Sunny David) 2:53
Wine Drinkin' Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Williams, McGhee) 2:36
C. C. Rider (Ma Rainey) 2:36
Good Golly Miss Molly (Marascalo, Blackwell) 2:18
Good Rockin' Tonight (R. Brown) 2:42
Hang Up My Rock & Roll Shoes (Cecil Lennox, C. Willis) 2:34
Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry) 2:41
Long Gone Lonesome Blues (Hank Williams) 2:04
Mean Woman Blues (Claud De Metrius) 2:24
Pumpin' Piano Rock (Jerry Lee Lewis) 2:04
Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry) 2:30
What'd I Say (Ray Charles) 2:27
Will The Circle Be Unbroken (A. P. Carter) 2:25
Let The Good Times Roll (Moore, Thread) 2:10
Ole Tyme Country Music
All Around The Watertank (Waiting For A Train) 1:37 8
Carry Me Back To Old Virginia 2:32 7
John Henry 2:31 8
Old Black Joe 2:03 7
My Blue Heaven (Whiting, Donaldson) 1:38 6
You're The Only Star (In My Blue Heaven) (Gene Autry) 2:21 9
The Crawdad Song 1:47 8
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane 2:16 7
You Are My Sunshine (C. Mitchell, J. Davis) 2:08 9
If The World Keeps On Turning (I'll Keep On Loving You) 1:48 8
Deep Elem Blues (Bob Attlesey, Joe Attlesey) 2:44 10
Rural Route #1
It'll Be Me (Jack H. Clement) 2:15 10
Billy Boy 2:16 7
Move On Down The Line (Sam C. Phillips) 2:13 9
Lewis Boogie 1:59 9
End Of The Road 1:46 10
Frankie And Johnny 2:30 7
Hillbilly Music (Husky) 2:05 7
C.C. Rider 2:22 9
Will The Circle Be Unbroken? 2:22 9
Jerry Lee's Greatest! 1961
"Money" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy, Jr.) 2:30 10
"As Long As I Live" (Dorsey Burnette) 2:25 9
"Hillbilly Fever" (George Vaughn) 2:05 7
"Frankie and Johnny" (Traditional; arranged by Jerry Lee Lewis) 2:30 9
"Home" (Roger Miller) 1:58 7
"Hello, Hello Baby" (Traditional; arranged by Jerry Lee Lewis) 3:20 10
Side B
"Let's Talk About Us" (Otis Blackwell) 2:05 7
"What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) 2:25 10
"Break Up" (Charlie Rich) 2:36 9
"Great Balls of Fire" (Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer) 1:50 10
"Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams) 3:02 7
"Hello Josephine" (Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew) 1:41 9
Live at the Star Club, Hamburg 1964
"Mean Woman Blues" (Claude Demetrius) 4:01
"High School Confidential" (Ron Hargrave, Jerry Lee Lewis) 2:25
"Money (That's What I Want)" (Janie Bradford, Berry Gordy) 4:35
"Matchbox" (Carl Perkins) 2:46
"What'd I Say, Part 1" (Ray Charles) 2:18
"What'd I Say, Part 2" (Ray Charles) 3:08
Side B
"Great Balls of Fire" (Otis Blackwell, Jack Hammer) 1:48
"Good Golly, Miss Molly" (Bumps Blackwell, John Marascalco) 2:19
"Lewis Boogie" (Jerry Lee Lewis) 1:55
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams) 3:03
"Hound Dog" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) 2:28
"Long Tall Sally" (Enotris Johnson, Bumps Blackwell, Richard Penniman) 1:52
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" (Sunny David, Dave Williams) 4:24
"Down The Line" (Roy Orbison) 2:58
The Return of Rock 1965
Side A
"I Believe in You" (Frank Brunson) 10
"Maybellene" (Chuck Berry, Alan Freed, Russ Fratto) 7
"Flip, Flop and Fly" (Chuck Calhoun, Lou Willie Turner) 7
"Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) 7
"Roll Over Beethoven" (Chuck Berry) 10
"Herman the Hermit" (Rink Hardin, Marian F. Turner) 6
Side B
"Baby, Hold Me Close" (Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Tubert) 10
"You Went Back on Your Word" (Brook Benton, Bobby Stevenson) 6
"Corrine, Corrina" (Armenter Chatmon, Mitchell Parish, J. Mayo Williams) 10
"Sexy Ways" (Hank Ballard) 9
"Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) 7
"Got You on My Mind" (Howard Biggs, Joe Thomas) 8
Country Songs For City Folks 1965
Green Green Grass Of Home (C. Putman, J. Busch) 2:35 8
Wolverton Mountain (C. King, M. Kilgore) 2:53 9
Funny How Time Slips Away (W. Nelson) 2:47 7
North To Alaska (M. Phillips) 1:55 7
The Wild Side Of Life (A. Carter, W. Warren) 3:02 9
Walk Right In (Darling, Svanoe) 2:05 6
City Lights (B. Anderson) 2:21 10
Ring Of Fire (J. Carter, M. Kilgore) 2:11 7
Detroit City (D. Dill, M. Tillis) 2:42 9
Crazy Arms (C. Seals, R. Mooney) 2:23
King Of The Road (R. Miller) 2:09 7
Seasons Of My Heart (G. Jones) 3:55 7
Memphis Beat 1966
"Memphis Beat" (Milton Addington, Dick Lipscombe, Allen Reynolds) 2:52 9
"Mathilda" (George Khoury, Huey Thierry) 2:17 9
"Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee" (Stick McGhee, J. Mayo Williams) 2:17 7
"Hallelujah I Love Her So" (Ray Charles) 2:32 8
"She Thinks I Still Care" (Dick Lipscombe) 2:50 6
"Just Because" (Sid Robin, Bob Shelton, Joe Shelton) 2:00 6
Side B
"Sticks and Stones" (Henry Glover) 2:06 8
"Whenever You're Ready" (Cecil J. Harrelson) 1:50 7
"Lincoln Limousine" (Jerry Lee Lewis) 2:38 7
"Big Boss Man" (Luther Dixon, Al Smith) 2:52 9
"Too Young" (Sylvia Dee, Sid Lippman) 3:00 6
"The Urge" (Donnie Fritts) 2:44 7
Soul My Way 1967
"Turn on Your Love Light" (Deadric Malone, Joseph Scott) 2:33 9
"It's a Hang Up, Baby" (Eddie Reeves) 2:17 8
"Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" (Cindy Walker) 2:28 6
"Just Dropped In" (Mickey Newbury) 2:27 9
"Wedding Bells" (Claude Boone) 2:33 8
"He Took It Like a Man" (Jerry Lee Lewis) 1:53 7
"Hey! Baby" Bruce ChannelMargaret Cobb 2:11 6
"Treat Her Right" (Roy Head) 2:01 8
"Holdin' On" (Majorie Barton, Bobby Dyson) 3:06 7
"Shotgun Man" (Cecil Harrelson) 2:45 8
"I Betcha Gonna Like It" (Buddy Killen, Robert Riley) 2:42 7
Killer : The Mercury Years Volume One 1963-1968
Corrine, Corrina (Bo Chatmon / Mitchell Parish / J. Mayo Williams) 2:02 9
The Hole He Said He'd Dig for Me (Marion Turner) 2:41 8
She Was My Baby (He Was My Friend) Joy Byers 2:16 10
Got You on My Mind (Howard Biggs / Joe "Cornbread" Thomas) 3:18 9
Mathilda (George Khoury / Huey Thierry) 2:14 9
Memphis Beat (Milton Addington / Dickey Lee Lipscomb / Allen Reynolds) 2:43 9
Don't Let Go (Jesse Stone) 2:25 8
Skid Row (John T. Axton / Mae Boren Axton / Harold Smith) 2:48 6
I Believe in You (Frank Brunson) 2:33 10
Baby, Hold Me Close (Jerry Lee Lewis / Shelby Singleton) 3:03 10
Funny How Time Slips Away (Willie Nelson) 2:54 7
This Must Be the Place (Dennis Lambert / Neil Levenson) 2:24 8
Who Will the Next Fool Be? (Charlie Rich) 3:31 9
Rockin' Jerry Lee (Jerry Lee Lewis) 2:39 8
Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) (Cindy Walker) 2:23 6
Louisiana Man (Doug Kershaw) 1:42 9
Today I Started Loving You Again (Merle Haggard / Bonnie Owens) 2:08 8
I'm on Fire (Bob Feldman / Jerry Goldstein / Richard Gottehrer) 2:21 10
The Wild Side of Life (Arlie Carter / William Warren) 3:07 9
Walking the Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb) 2:06 10
Another Place, Another Time (Jerry Chesnut) 2:24 10
Break My Mind (John D. Loudermilk) 2:25 9
Swinging Doors (Merle Haggard) 2:49 8
What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me) (Glenn Sutton) 2:34 10
The Golden Cream Of The Country
Invitation To Your Party (William E. Taylor) 2:00 7
Jambalaya (Hank Williams) 1:55 8
Ramblin' Rose (Burch, Wilkin) 3:02 7
Cold, Cold Heart (Hank Williams) 3:05 6
As Long As I Live (Dorsey Burnett) 2:25 9
Seasons Of My Heart (Edwards, Jones) 2:59 6
One Minute Past Eternity (William E. Taylor, Stanley Kesler) 2:00 9
I Can't Trust Me In Your Arms Anymore (Certain, McAlpin) 2:11 7
Frankie and Johnny 2:30 8
Home (Roger Miller) 1:58 8
How's My Ex Treating You (Vic McAlpin) 2:37 7
Another Place, Another Time 1968
"What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" (Glenn Sutton) 2:37 9
"Play Me a Song I Can Cry To" (Jerry Chesnut) 2:53 7
"On the Back Row" (Chesnut, Norro Wilson) 2:50 7
"Walking the Floor Over You" (Ernest Tubb) 2:09 10
"All Night Long" (Don Chapel) 2:34 6
"I'm a Lonesome Fugitive" (Casey Anderson, Liz Anderson) 3:01 7
"Another Place, Another Time" (Chesnut) 2:27 10
"Break My Mind" (John D. Loudermilk) 2:28 10
"Before the Next Teardrop Falls" (Venna Keith, Ben Peters) 2:07 8
"All the Good Is Gone" (Dottie Bruce, Norro Wilson) 2:14 7
"We Live in Two Different Worlds" (with Linda Gail Lewis) (Fred Rose) 2:13 6
She Still Comes Around 1969
"To Make Love Sweeter for You" (Jerry Kennedy, Glenn Sutton) 2:52 7
"Let's Talk About Us" (Otis Blackwell) 1:58 8
"I Can't Get Over You" (Ben Peters) 3:06 8
"Out of My Mind" (Kenny Lovelace) 2:23 6
"Today I Started Loving You Again" (Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens) 2:09 8
"She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me)" (Sutton) 2:31
"Louisiana Man" (Doug Kershaw) 1:48 10
"Release Me" (Eddie Miller, Dub Williams, Robert Yount) 3:02 8
"Listen, They're Playing My Song" (Glen Garrison, Charlie Williams) 2:47 7
"There Stands the Glass" (Audrey Greisham, Russ Hull, Mary Jean Shurtz) 2:39 7
"Echoes" (Cecil Harrelson, Linda Gail Lewis) 2:33 6
Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 1
"I Wonder Where You Are Tonight" (Johnny Bond) 2:39 10
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams) 2:48 10
"Jambalaya" (Williams) 2:13 8
"Four Walls" (George Campbell, Marvin Moore) 2:43 7
"Heartaches by the Number" (Harlan Howard) 2:34 9
"Mom and Dad's Waltz" (Lefty Frizzell) 2:09 6
"Sweet Dreams" (Don Gibson) 3:07 6
"Born to Lose" (Frankie Brown, Ted Daffan) 2:24 6
"Oh, Lonesome Me" (Gibson) 2:49 8
"You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" (Leon Payne) 2:25 9
"I Love You Because" (Payne) 2:24 8
"Jackson" (with Linda Gail Lewis) (Billy Edd Wheeler, Jerry Leiber (as Gaby Rodgers)) 2:24
Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 2
"I Can't Stop Loving You" (Don Gibson) 2:38 9
"Fraulein" (Lawton Williams) 2:30 6
"He'll Have to Go" (Audrey Allison, Joe Allison) 2:22 10
"More and More" (Merle Kilgore) 2:26 8
"Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)" (Hank Williams) 1:39 9
"It Makes No Difference Now" (Jimmie Davis, Floyd Tillman) 2:26 8
"Pick Me Up on Your Way Down" (Harlan Howard) 2:32 10
"One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" (Hal Blair, Dearest Dean, Eddie Dean) 2:41 8
"I Get the Blues When It Rains" (Marcy Klauber, Harry Stoddard) 2:15 8
"Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams) 3:01 6
"Burning Memories" (Mel Tillis, Wayne Walker) 2:09 7
"Sweet Thang" (with Linda Gail Lewis) (Nat Stuckey) 2:16 6
Country Style
I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Four Walls
Heartaches By The Number
Mom And Dad's Waltz
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
One Has My Name (The Other My Heart)
I Get The Blues When It Rains
Cold Cold Heart
Burning Memories
Sweet Thang
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye 1970
Once More With Feeling 2:24 10
Workin' Man Blues 2:52 10
Waiting For A Train 1:58 8
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man 2:08 8
My Only Claim To Fame 2:13 8
Since I Met You Baby 2:45 8
She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye 2:44 7
Wine Me Up 2:21 8
When The Grass Grows Over Me 2:41 8
You Went Out Of Your Way (To Walk On Me) 1:54 8
Echoes 2:27 6
A Taste of Country 1970
"I Can't Seem to Say Goodbye" (Don Robertson) 2:31 6
"I Love You So Much It Hurts" (Floyd Tillman) 2:18 5
"I'm Throwing Rice" (Eddy Arnold, Steve Nelson) 2:13 6
"Goodnight Irene" (Lead Belly, John A. Lomax) 2:53 8
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams) 2:10 8
"Am I to Be the One" (Otis Blackwell, B.W. Stevenson) 1:40 7
"Crazy Arms" (Ralph Mooney, Chuck Seals) 2:42 10
"Night Train to Memphis" (O. Bradley, Marvin Hughes, Harry Beasley Smith) 2:08 9
"As Long As I Live" (Dorsey Burnette) 2:25 8
"You Win Again" (Williams) 2:57 8
"It Hurt Me So" (Charlie Rich, Bill Justis) 2:40 8
There Must Be More to Love Than This 1971
"There Must Be More to Love Than This" (Thomas La Verne, Bill Taylor) 2:45 9
"Bottles and Barstools" (Glenn Sutton) 2:49 7
"Reuben James" (Barry Etris, Alex Harvey) 2:45 10
"I'd Be Talkin' All the Time" (Chuck Howard, Larry Kingston) 2:21 6
"One More Time" (Larry Butler, Jan Crutchfield, Buddy Killen) 2:24 6
"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard) 2:29 9
"Woman, Woman (Get Out of My Way)" (Linda Gail Lewis, Cecil J. Harrelson) 3:17 7
"I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" (Cecil A. Null) 2:42 8
"Foolaid" (Harrelson, Carmen Holland) 2:33 8
"Home Away from Home" (Jerry Chesnut) 2:33 7
"Life Has Its Little Ups and Downs" (Margret Ann Rich) 2:40 8
Touching Home 1971
"When He Walks On You (Like You Have Walked On Me)" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. Owens) 2:34 8
"Time Changes Everything" (Tommy Duncan) 2:27 8
"Help Me Make It Through the Night" (Fred Foster, Kris Kristofferson) 3:02 7
"Mother, The Queen of My Heart" (Jimmie Rodgers, Slim Bryant) 3:05 6
"Hearts Were Made for Beating" (Lamar Morris, Warren Keith) 2:38 7
"Foolish Kind of Man" (Linda Gail Lewis, Kenneth Lovelace) 2:37 7
"Touching Home" (Frazier Owens) 2:40 7
"Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone" (Sidney Clare, Sam H. Stept, Bee Palmer) 2:28 9
"You Helped Me Up (When the World Let Me Down)" (Cile Davis, Carmen Holland, Clyde Pitts) 2:18 8
"When Baby Gets the Blues" (Charles R. Phipps) 2:51 7
"Comin' Back for More" (Ray Griff) 2:53 6
Would You Take Another Chance On Me? 1971
Would You Take Another Chance On Me 2:51 7
Another Hand Shakin' Goodbye 2:34 8
Swinging Doors 2:48 9
Thirteen At The Table 3:35 7
Big Blon' Baby 2:03 10
Lonesome Fiddle Man 2:30 6
Me And Bobby McGee 3:12 10
For The Good Times 3:41 7
Things That Matter Most To Me 3:10 8
The Hurtin' Part 2:24 8
The Goodbye Of The Year 2:12 8
The "Killer" Rocks On 1972
Don't Be Cruel (Elvis Presley, O. Blackwell) 1:56 7
You Can Have Her (W. Cook) 2:20 9
Games People Play (J. South) 2:32 8
Lonely Weekends (C. Rich) 1:44 8
You Don't Miss Your Water (W. Bell) 2:30 8
Turn On Your Love Light (D. Malone, J. Scott) 2:34 9
Chantilly Lace (J. P. Richardson) 2:50 8
C. C. Rider (C. Willis) 2:52 9
Walk A Mile In My Shoes (J. South) 3:01 7
Me And Bobby McGee (F. Foster, K. Kristofferson) 3:10 10
Shotgun Man (C. Harrelson) 2:45 9
I'm Walkin (Fats Domino, D. Bartholomew) 2:09 7
Killer : The Mercury Years Volume Two 1969-1972
Jambalaya 8
Home Away From Home 7
I Can't Stop Loving You 9
Oh Lonesome Me 8
You've Still Got A Place In My Heart 9
Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used To) 9
Reuben James 10
Since I Met You Baby 8
You Went Out Of Your Way (To Walk On Me) 8
Handwriting On The Wall 8
You Don't Miss Your Water 8
On The Jericho Road/I'll Fly Away 9
Flip, Flop And Fly 8
Blue Suede Shoes 7
Stagger Lee 9
Today I Started Loving You Again 8
Shoeshine Man 9
I'm In The Gloryland Way 9
When He Walks On You (Like You Walked On Me)
Workin' Man Blues 10
I Get The Blues When It Rains 8
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone 10
Another Hand Shakin' Goodbye 8
Me And Bobby McGee 10
Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano? 1972
"Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?" (Ray Griff ) 3:21 9
"She's Reachin' for My Mind" (Dallas Frazier, A.L. Owens) 2:41 6
"Too Many Rivers" Harlan Howard 3:02 6
"We Both Know Which One of Us Went Wrong" (Frazier Owens) 3:37 8
"Wall Around Heaven" (Cecil Harrelson, Carmen Holland, Jerry Lee Lewis) 3:08 7
"No More Hanging On" (Jerry Chesnut) 3:15 6
"Think About It, Darlin'" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 2:34 5
"Bottom Dollar" (Doug Finley, Billy Joe Shaver) 3:02 8
"No Traffic Out of Abilene" (Woodrow Webb) 2:46 9
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow" (Linda Gail Lewis, Harrelson) 3:01 8
"The Mercy of a Letter" (Foster, Rice) 3:32 8
The Session...Recorded in London with Great Artists 1973
Side 1
"Drinking Wine, Spo-Dee O'Dee" (McGhee, Williams)
"Music to the Man"
"Baby What You Want Me to Do" (Jimmy Reed)
"Bad Moon Rising" (John Fogerty)
"Sea Cruise" (Huey "Piano" Smith)
Side 2
"Jukebox" (Colton, Hodges, Lee)
"No Headstone on My Grave" (Charlie Rich)
"Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Smith)
"Pledging My Love" (Robey, Washington)
"Memphis" (Chuck Berry)
Side 3
"Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones)
"Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry)
"High School Confidential" (Jerry Lee Lewis, Ron Hargrave)
"Early Morning Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot)
Side 4
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" (David, Williams)
"Sixty-Minute Man" (Billy Ward, Rose Marks)
"Movin' On Down The Line" (Roy Orbison, Sam Phillips)
"What'd I Say" (Ray Charles)
"Rock & Roll Medley: "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Marascalo, Blackwell)/"Long Tall Sally" (Johnson, Blackwell, Penniman)/"Jenny, Jenny"/"Tutti Frutti" (Penniman, LaBostrie)/"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" (David, Williams)
Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough 1973
“Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough" (Stan Kesler) 2:56 9
"Ride Me Down Easy" (Billy Joe Shaver) 2:50 8
"Mama's Hands" (Frank Dycus, Larry Kingston) 3:46 6
"What My Woman Can't Do" (George Jones, Earl Montgomery, Billy Sherrill) 2:29 7
"My Cricket and Me" (Leon Russell) 2:11 6
"I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone" (Stan Kesler, Bill Taylor) 2:21 9
"Honky Tonk Wine" (Mack Vickery) 4:37 10
"Falling to the Bottom" 2:38 8
"I Think I Need to Pray" (Cecil Harrelson Taylor) 2:45 8
"Mornin' After Baby Let Me Down" (Ray Griff) 3:01 5
"Keep Me from Blowing Away" (Paul Craft) 2:37 6
Southern Roots: Back Home to Memphis 1973
"Meat Man" (Mack Vickery) 8
"When a Man Loves a Woman" (Calvin Lewis, Andrew Wright) 7
"Hold On! I'm Comin'" (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) 8
"Just a Little Bit" (Rosco Gordon) 10
"Born to Be a Loser" (Karen Carpenter, Richard Carpenter) 7
"The Haunted House" (Bob Geddins) 9
"Blueberry Hill" (Al Lewis, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock) 8
"The Revolutionary Man" (Doug Sahm) 8
"Big Blue Diamonds" (Kit Carson) 9
"That Old Bourbon Street Church" (Mack Vickery) 8
I-40 Country 1974
"He Can't Fill My Shoes" (Frank Dycus, Larry Kingston) 2:36 8
"Tell Tale Signs" (Alex Zanetis) 2:28 8
"A Picture from Life's Other Side"(Trad. arranged by Jerry Lee Lewis) 3:42 8
"I Hate Goodbyes" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 2:33 7
"I've Forgot More About You (Than He'll Ever Know)" (Cecil A. Null) 3:06 8
"Tomorrow's Taking My Baby Away" (Thomas LaVerne, Bill Taylor) 3:19 8
"Cold, Cold Morning Light" (LaVerne Taylor) 3:10 7
"The Alcohol of Fame" (Buzz Rabin) 2:30 7
"Where Would I Be" (Ray Griff) 3:04 6
"Bluer Words" (Cile Davis, Clyde Pitts, J. Len Pitts) 2:19 9
"Room Full of Roses" (Tim Spencer) 2:36 7
Boogie Woogie Country Man 1975
"I'm Still Jealous of You" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 3:08 10
"Little Peace and Harmony" (Ray Griff) 2:23 8
"Jesus Is On the Main Line (Call Him Sometime)" (Marijohn Wilkin) 2:09 8
"Forever Forgiving" (Mack Vickery) 2:14 8
"(Remember Me) I'm the One You Loves You" (Stuart Hamblen) 2:55 7
"Red Hot Memories (Ice Cold Beer)" (Tom T. Hall) 2:15 8
"I Can Still Hear the Music In the Restroom" (Hall) 2:32 7
"Love Inflation" (Sanger D. Schafer) 2:43 7
"I Was Sorta Wonderin'" (Bill Kearns, Moon Mullican, Dusty Ward) 2:37 7
"Thanks for Nothing" (Anthony Dobbins) 2:15 7
"Boogie Woogie Country Man" (T.J. Seals, Troy Seals) 3:44 7
Odd Man In 1975
"Don't Boogie Woogie (When You Say Your Prayers Tonight)" (Layng Martine Jr.) 6
"Shake, Rattle & Roll" (Charles E. Calhoun) 8
"You Ought to See My Mind" (Carl Knight) 7
"I Don't Want to Be Lonely Tonight" (Baker Knight) 7
"That Kind of Fool" (Mack Vickery) 7
"Goodnight Irene" (Huddie Ledbetter, Alan A. Lomax) 8
"A Damn Good Country Song" (Donnie Fritts) 7
"Jerry's Place" (Ray Griff) 8
"When I Take My Vacation to Heaven" (Herbert Buffum) 6
"Crawdad Song" (Traditional; arranged by Jerry Lee Lewis) 10
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (Hank Williams) 8
Country Class 1976
"Let's Put It Back Together Again" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 6
"No One Will Ever Know" (Mel Foree, Fred Rose) 6
"You Belong to Me" (Pee Wee King, Chilton Price, Redd Stewart) 10
"I Sure Miss Those Good Old Times" (Mack Vickery) 6
"Old Country Church" (Clarence Thorne, Lance Sterling) 8
"After the Fool You've Made of Me" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 8
"Jerry Lee's Rock & Roll Revival Show" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 7
"Wedding Bells" (Claude Boone) 8
"Only Love Can Get You in My Door" (Ric Marlow, Michel Rubini) 9
"The One Rose (That's Left in My Heart)" (Del Lyon, Lani McIntire) 10
"Closest Thing to You" (Bob McDill) 9
Country Memories 1977
"Middle Age Crazy" (Sonny Throckmorton) 10
"Let's Say Goodbye Like We Said Hello (In a Friendly Kind of Way)" (Jimmie Skinner, Ernest Tubb) 7
"Who's Sorry Now?" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder) 10
"Jealous Heart" (Jenny Carson) 8
"Georgia On My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) 8
"Come on In" (Bobby Braddock) 6
"As Long as We Live" (Bob McDill) 10
"(You'd Think By Now) I'd Be Over You" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 7
"Country Memories" (Jerry Foster, Bill Rice) 9
"What's So Good About Goodbye" (Bob McDill) 8
"Tennessee Saturday Night" (Billy Hughes) 9
Jerry Lee Keeps Rockin' 1978
"I'll Find It Where I Can" (Michael Clark, Zack Van Arsdale) 10
"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" (Slim Willet) 8
"Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry) 7
"Last Cheaters Waltz" (Sonny Throckmorton) 9
"Wild and Wooly Ways" (Bob Morrison, Alan Rush) 6
"Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl Perkins) 7
"I Hate You" (Leroy Daniels, Dan Penn) 6
"Arkansas Seesaw" (Michael Bacon, Thomas Cain) 6
"Lucille" (Albert Collins, Richard Penniman) 9
"Pee Wee's Place" (Duke Faglier) 8
"Before the Night Is Over" (Ben Peters) 7
Killer : The Mercury Years Volume Three 1973-1977
Haunted House 2:48 9
Meat Man 2:46 8
Born To Be A Loser 2:55 7
Just A Little Bit 3:06 10
Honey Hush 2:12 10
I'll Find It Where I Can 2:42 10
Boogie Woogie Country Man 3:40 7
I'm Still Jealous Of You 3:05 10
Honky Tonk Wine 4:33 10
I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone 2:18 9
No One Knows Me 2:11
Jerry's Place 2:27 8
Jesus Is On The Mainline (Call Him Sometime) 2:07
Shake, Rattle & Roll 2:53
The House Of Blue Lights 2:17 7
Goodnight Irene 3:41 8
Lord, I've Tried Everything But You 2:39
Country Memories 2:59 9
I Can Help 3:36 10
I Don't Want To Be Lonely Tonight 3:11 7
That Kind Of Fool 2:23 7
Your Cheatin' Heart 2:42 8
Crawdad Song 3:03 10
As Long As We Live 2:14 10
Ivory Tears 3:06 8
Jerry Lee Lewis 1979
"Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) 9
"Rita May" (Bob Dylan, Jacques Levy) 8
"Every Day I Have to Cry" (Arthur Alexander) 9
"I Like It Like That" (Allen Toussaint, Chris Kenner) 8
"Number One Lovin' Man" (Jim Cottengim) 9
"Rockin' My Life Away" (Mack Vickery) 10
"Who Will the Next Fool Be" (Charlie Rich) 8
"(You've Got) Personality" (Harold Logan, Lloyd Price) 8
"I Wish I Was Eighteen Again" (Sonny Throckmorton) 10
"Rocking Little Angel" (Jimmie Rogers) 8
When Two Worlds Collide 1980
"Rockin' Jerry Lee" (Jerry Lee Lewis) - 2:35 7
"Who Will Buy the Wine" (Billy Mize) - 2:54 8
"Love Game" (Hugh Moffatt) - 3:30 8
"Alabama Jubilee" (George Cobb, Jack Yellen) - 4:45 9
"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" (Danny O'Keefe) - 2:22 7
"When Two Worlds Collide" (Bill Anderson, Roger Miller) - 2:27 7
"Good News Travels Fast" (Rick Klang) - 2:49 8
"I Only Want a Buddy Not a Sweetheart" (Edward H. Jones) - 3:40 8
"Honky Tonk Stuff" (Jerry Chesnut) - 2:57 7
"Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye" (Ernie Erdman, Ted Fiorito, Gus Kahn) - 3:53 8
Killer Country 1980
Folsom Prisom Blues (John R. Cash) 3:40 10
I'd Do It Again (Bill Rice, Jerry Foster) 2:51 7
Jukebox Junky (Danny Morrison, Dave Kirby) 2:27 6
Too Weak To Fight (Chuck Howard) 2:27 6
Late Night Lovin' Man (Rick Klang) 2:57 9
Change Places With Me (David Wilkins, Maria A. Kilroy) 2:40 7
Let Me On (Layng Martine, Jr.) 2:55 9
Thirty-Nine And Holding (Bill Rice, Jerry Foster) 2:55 7
Mama, This One's For You (Ray Griff) 2:54 6
Over The Rainbow (E.Y. Harburg, Harold Arlen) 3:43 10
The Complete Caribou Sessions, recorded in November, 1980. Vol 1.
San Antonio Rose (instrumental)
Georgia On My Mind
Lady Of Spain
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
High Heel Sneakers
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On (1st version)
Tennessee Waltz
Memphis Tennessee
Honey Hush
Jerry’s Got The Blues (instrumental)
What’d I Say
Precious Memories
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
The Complete Caribou Sessions. Recorded in November, 1980. Vol. 2
My God Is Real
Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On (2nd version)
When I Get My Wings
That Was The Way It Was Then
Easter Parade
Keep My Motor Running
Autumn Leaves
I Wish You Love
Eight By Ten
I’m Throwing Rice
When They Ring Those Golden Bells
Down The Sawdust Trail
Pride Don’t Mean A Thing
The Complete Caribou Sessions. Recorded in November, 1980. Vol. 3
End Of The Road
On The Jericho Road
Old Time Religion
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
He Set Me Free – I Saw The Light (Medley)
Softly & Tenderly
Jesus Hold My Hand
In The Garden
The Last Letter
Arkansas
Fever.
Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming 1986
"Birth of Rock and Roll" (Carl Perkins, Greg Perkins) Carl Perkins 4:21
"Sixteen Candles" (Luther Dixon, Allyson Khent) Jerry Lee Lewis 3:48 9
"Class of '55" (Chips Moman, Bobby Emmons) Carl Perkins 2:56
"Waymore's Blues" (Waylon Jennings, Curtis Buck) Perkins, Lewis, Orbison & Cash 2:25
"We Remember the King" (Paul Kennerley) Johnny Cash) 2:58
Side two
"Coming Home" (Roy Orbison, Will Jennings, J.D. Souther) Roy Orbison 3:59
"Rock and Roll (Fais-Do-Do)" (Michael Smotherman) Perkins, Lewis, Orbison & Cash 3:17
"Keep My Motor Running" (Randy Bachman) Jerry Lee Lewis 2:52
"I Will Rock and Roll with You" (Johnny Cash) Johnny Cash 2:01
"Big Train (from Memphis)" (John Fogerty) Perkins, Lewis, Orbison & Cash 7:56
Great Balls Of Fire! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 1989
Great Balls Of Fire 2:32
High School Confidential 2:18
Big Legged Woman (Booker T. Laury) 3:33
I'm On Fire 2:15
Rocket 88 (Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats) 2:46
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On 3:57
Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Valerie Wellington) 3:09
Breathless 2:50
Crazy Arms (Jerry Lee Lewis and Dennis Quaid) 2:54
Wild One 2:19
That Lucky Old Sun 4:35 8
Great Balls Of Fire (Original Version) 1:50
Young Blood 1995
"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" (Fred Rose, Hank Williams) - 2:11 8
"Goosebumps" (Al Anderson, Andy Paley) - 2:33 7
"Things" (Bobby Darin) - 2:43 7
"Miss the Mississippi and You" (William Halley, Eric Schoenberg) - 3:37
"Young Blood" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) - 2:19 7
"Crown Victoria Custom '51" (Andy Paley, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Burton, Kenny Lovelace) - 3:02 8
"High Blood Pressure" (Huey Piano Smith) - 2:53 7
"Restless Heart" (Andy Paley, James Burton, Julie Richmond, Kenny Lovelace) - 2:46 9
"Gotta Travel On" (Dave Lazer, Fred Hellerman, Larry Ehrlich, Lee Hays, Paul Clayton, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert) - 2:05 7
"Down the Road a Piece" (Don Raye) - 2:28 8
"It Was the Whiskey Talkin' (Not Me)" (Andy Paley, Jonathan Paley, Michael Kernan, Ned Claflin) - 3:40 8
"Poison Love" (Elmer Laird) - 3:44 8
"One of them Old Things" (Hoy Lindsey, Joel Sonnier) - 2:49 7
"House of Blue Lights" (Don Raye, Freddie Slack) - 1:51 7
Last Man Standing 2006
"Rock and Roll" (John Paul Jones, John Bonham, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant) – 2:14
With Jimmy Page 7
"Before the Night Is Over" (Ben Peters) – 3:39 With B. B. King 8
"Pink Cadillac" (Bruce Springsteen) – 3:55 With Bruce Springsteen 7
"Evening Gown" (Mick Jagger) – 3:57 with Mick Jagger and Ron Wood 8
"You Don't Have to Go" (Jimmy Reed) – 4:00 With Neil Young 8
"Twilight" (Robbie Robertson) – 2:48 With Robbie Robertson 8
"Travelin' Band" (John Fogerty) – 2:01 With John Fogerty
"That Kind of Fool" (Mack Vickery) – 4:14 With Keith Richards 7
"Sweet Little Sixteen" (Chuck Berry) – 3:04 With Ringo Starr 6
"Just a Bummin' Around" (Pete Graves) – 2:43 With Merle Haggard 8
"Honky Tonk Woman" (Jagger/Richards) – 2:21 With Kid Rock 7
"What's Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)" (Glenn Sutton) – 2:39 With Rod Stewart 6
"Don't Be Ashamed of Your Age" (Cindy Walker, Bob Wills) – 1:59 With George Jones 6
"Couple More Years" (Dennis Locorriere, Shel Silverstein) – 5:13 With Willie Nelson 9
"Old Glory" (Paul Roberts, Shelby Darnell, Jerry Lee Lewis) – 2:05 With Toby Keith
"Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 3:49 With Eric Clapton 9
"I Saw Her Standing There" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:21 With Little Richard 7
"Lost Highway" (Leon Payne) – 2:59 With Delaney Bramlett 7
"Hadacol Boogie" (Bill Nettles) – 3:18 With Buddy Guy 9
"What Makes the Irish Heart Beat" (Van Morrison) – 4:12 With Don Henley 7
"The Pilgrim Ch. 33" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:00 With Kris Kristofferson 9
Last Man Standing Live 2007
Track listing CD
"Roll Over Beethoven"
"Chantilly Lace"
"That Lucky Old Sun"
"Lewis Boogie"
"Lucille"
"Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave"
"Great Balls Of Fire"
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On"
Track listing DVD
"Great Balls Of Fire"
"Chantilly Lace"
"Green Green Grass of Home" (with Tom Jones)
"End Of The Road" (with Tom Jones)
"Who Will The Next Fool Be" (with Solomon Burke)
"Today I Started Lovin' You Again" (with Solomon Burke)
"Crazy Arms" (with Norah Jones)
"Your Cheatin' Heart" (with Norah Jones)
"Hadacol Boogie" (with Buddy Guy)
"Don't Put No Headstone On My Grave"
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (with Chris Isaak)
"Cry" (with Chris Isaak)
"Rockin' My Life Away" (with Ron Wood)
"Lewis Boogie"
"Bumming Around" (with Merle Haggard)
"What'd I Say" (with Ivan Neville)
"Once More With Feeling" (with Kris Kristofferson)
"CC Rider" (with John Fogerty)
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (with John Fogerty & Kris Kristofferson)
"Good Golly Miss Molly" (with John Fogerty)
"Trouble In Mind" (with Ron Wood)
"Jambalaya" (with Willie Nelson)
"You Win Again" (with Don Henley)
"Little Queenie" (with Kid Rock)
"Honky Tonk Woman" (with Kid Rock)
"That Lucky Old Sun" (with Ken Lovelace)
"Roll Over Beethoven"
"Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On"
Bonus Track: "Goodnight Irene" (with Merle Haggard)
Mean Old Man 2010
"Mean Old Man" (with Ronnie Wood) (2:46) 9
"Rockin' My Life Away" (with Kid Rock & Slash) (2:16) 8
"Dead Flowers" (with Mick Jagger) (3:52) 9
"Middle Age Crazy" (with Tim McGraw & Jon Brion) (3:44) 9
"You Can Have Her" (with Eric Clapton & James Burton) (2:37) 7
"You Are My Sunshine" (with Sheryl Crow & Jon Brion) (3:35) 8
"Hold You In My Heart" (with Shelby Lynne) (2:41) 8
"Swinging Doors" (with Merle Haggard & James Burton) (2:40) 7
"Roll Over Beethoven" (with Ringo Starr, John Mayer, James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Jim Keltner & Jon Brion) (2:45) 7
"Sweet Virginia" (with Keith Richards) (3:50) 7
"Railroad to Heaven" (with Solomon Burke) (3:55) 9
"Bad Moon Rising" (with John Fogerty) (2:17) 7
"Please Release Me" (with Gillian Welch) (3:39) 8
"Whiskey River" (with Willie Nelson) (3:19) 6
"I Really Don’t Want to Know" (with Gillian Welch) (3:03) 10
"Sunday Morning Coming Down" (5:07) 8
"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (with Mavis Staples, Robbie Robertson & Nils Lofgren) (3:48) 7
"Miss the Mississippi and You" (3:25) 7
"Here Comes That Rainbow" (with Shelby Lynne) (2:06) 8
Rock & Roll Time 2014
"Rock and Roll Time" – (Kris Kristofferson, Roger McGuinn, Bob Neuwirth) 8
"Little Queenie" – (Chuck Berry) 7
"Stepchild" – (Bob Dylan) 7
"Sick and Tired"– (Chris Kenner, Dave Bartholomew) 9
"Bright Lights, Big City" – (Jimmy Reed) 8
"Folsom Prison Blues" – (Johnny Cash) 6
"Keep Me in Mind" – (previously unpublished song by Mack Vickery) 8
"Mississippi Kid" – (Al Kooper, Bob Burns, Ronnie Van Zant) 8
"Blues Like Midnight" – (Jimmie Rodgers) 9
"Here Comes That Rainbow Again" – (Kris Kristofferson) 8
"Promised Land" – (Chuck Berry) 7
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