![]() ![]() His 1957 cover of Hank Williams’ “You Win Again” reached #2 for two weeks, and other songs, while not charting, demonstrated an artist comfortable with the most country of country songs. While Jerry Lee was to gain great initial success doing other forms of music, Jerry Lee continued to record country music. Jerry Lee made his way to Memphis and the attention of Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Moon, who is worth an article himself, played a pounding piano, barrelhouse boogie style, that would vibrate beer bottles off the tables. While Jerry Lee has cited few specific influences to his music, one of those cited was Texas-born Moon Mullican, an exuberant performer who frequently toured Louisiana during the 1930s and 1940s. He also was influenced by the country and rhythm and blues music that surrounded him. ![]() Like most of his era Jerry Lee grew up singing in church. Swaggart and Lewis were born in Ferriday, and Gilley across the river in Natchez, Mississippi, all within a ten month span, and grew up together. Jerry Lee Lewis was born on Septemin Ferriday, Louisiana, and is a first cousin to famed evangelist Jimmy Swaggart and a second cousin to fellow country singer Mickey Gilley. ![]() This article is about country singer Jerry Lee Lewis, who occupies and inhabits the same body as the somewhat demented rock ‘n roller about whom we will speak little further. ![]()
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