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With Elvis' '73 Stax sessions getting a new release (http://smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,15625.0.html), this year will also see a deluxe re-release of Jerry Lee's '73 album "Southern roots", also recorded in Memphis. One of his best albums imo. It will be released on CD and vinyl. Here's more:


Southern Roots - The Original Sessions

At long last here are the original session tapes that produced Jerry Lee Lewis' 1974 'Southern Roots' LP. Produced by Huey Meaux, a fellow Louisiana wildman, the final results reveal what happens when two fiery, free-spirited forces lock horns in the studio.

Meaux had just gotten out of prison and had a reputation you wouldn't want in your family tree. Separately, Meaux and Lewis each spelled trouble in a big way and could be impossible to work with. Together? God knows what would happen. The results could be an utter disaster or a stroke of genius. As Meaux later observed, "I knew Jerry and I would fight, but in the end we'd come out with the record. We fought, but we delivered."

For three days in September, 1973 Jerry Lee Lewis and Huey Meaux went at it, and each other. Listen as Jerry Lee is turned loose in the studio by a producer who did try to rein in Jerry's ego. In fact, Meaux did everything he could to feed it. That ego is nowhere more evident than on Jerry's version of the Percy Sledge 1966 hit, When A Man Loves A Woman, which Jerry turns into a sermon on war between the sexes.

Jerry and Huey cut mostly southern music – soul, country, R&B and a touch of swamp pop. They even included a surprisingly impassioned version of Johnny Ray's 1952 hit record, Cry.

Little did we know that there was supposed to be a second 'Southern Roots' album. Only ten tracks ever appeared on the LP – a scant 34 minutes of music - but we've got it all here, including the music that was scheduled to appear on the second 'lost album,' all neatly overdubbed and ready for release. We've also got the stuff you were never meant to hear, and there's plenty of it.

Some 40 years later this CD lets you be a fly on the wall as Jerry and Huey square off at one another, laughing, arguing and making music late into the night. It's Jerry Lee as you've never heard him before.


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Source: http://www.imwan.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=84261



Tracklist according to amazon.com:

Disc: 1
1. Meat Man
2. When A Man Loves A Woman
3. Hold On I'm Coming
4. Just A Little Bit
5. Born To Be A Loser
6. Haunted House
7. Blueberry Hill
8. The Revolutionary Man
9. Big Blue Diamonds
10. That Old Bourbon Street Church
11. Silver Threads Among The Gold
12. Hold On I'm Coming (fast version)
13. Take Your Time
14. All Over Hell And Half Of Georgia
15. I Sure Miss Those Good Old Times
16. Raining In My Heart
17. Honey Hush
18. Cry
19. Margie
Disc: 2
1. Cry (alternative 1)
2. Studio Chatter #1
3. Cry (alternative 2)
4. Studio Chatter #2
5. Margie (alternative 1)
6. Margie (alternative 2)
7. Studio Chatter #3
8. Silver Threads Among The Gold (alternative 1)
9. Silver Threads Among The Gold (alternative 2)
10. Born To Be A Loser
11. Studio Chatter #4
12. When A Man Loves A Woman (alternative 1)
13. Studio Chatter #5
14. When A Man Loves A Woman (alternative 2)
15. Meat Man (vocal/piano mix)
16. Raining In My Heart (vocal/piano mix)
17. Studio Chatter #6 - Creedence & Cajuns
18. I Sure Miss Those Good Old Times (alternative 1)
19. I Sure Miss Those Good Old Times (alternative 2)
20. Studio Chatter #8 - Polk Salad Annie

WOW

I had the original on 8-track; Jerry Lee in the early to mid-70s was phenomenal.  Loved all his overwrought country stuff too.  Saw him live around that time and, well, he killed.

You can see an 8track Southern Roots on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH2e_-C7Dac

Here are some samples:
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Jerry-Lee-Lewis-Southern-Roots-The-Original-Sessions/hnum/2395153

I think most of the stuff was already released on the Mercury box. Anyhow, should be a great CD as I don't have that box.




For everyone who has Sirius Radio, Jerry Lee will play his new club in Memphis and that show will be broadcasted live. This from facebook:

Goodness Gracious! Jerry Lee is coming to Beale on July 27th! The first public performance by Jerry Lee Lewis at his new restaurant and bar will be broadcasted internationally by SiriusXm Radio on their Outlaw Country station.

Jerry Lee in his prime has a better track record than most anyone. His 1956-73 recordings are amazing. Much of his 1974-80 work is pretty sharp too. Even now, he never has put out a truly bad album. Southern Roots is indeed one of the best and though I have the vinyl boxes and CD ones too, I still think this will be a cool record and CD.

I have the LP and the "Southern roots/Boogie woogie country man"-twofer CD. The CD sounded a little to dry compared to the vinyl, I wonder how this one will turn out.

I just looked for these pictures for another forum. Maybe they are new to you. The topic was about JLL playing other instruments. Although there's audio and video of him playing violin I couldn't find it.


(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pND18bdVwXI/Sn2LxUPvslI/AAAAAAAASDg/wlcL-oLxBJ0/s400/JLL+1958+def.jpg)
This was Carl Perkins' guitar.

(http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/23/2000123/3839383138366262.jpg)

(http://pappy-srock.midiblogs.com/images/medium_1973_fete_de_l_huma.gif)
Playing drums for Chuck Berry in '73


On drums (video), Turn on your lovelight: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x90tse_jerry-lee-lewis-killer-drummer_music#.UdyKrKx5iE8


Guitar, Green green grass of home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEpHFU7NCls

Guitar, Mystery train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyhmow83S0

Is anyone of you registered at Sirius Radio and could record JLL's show that will be repeated tomorrow and monday?

(Jerry Lee Lewis Live in Memphis)

Rebroadcast: Sun 9/1 12:00 pm ET; Sun 9/1 9:00 pm ET; Mon 9/2 8:00 pm ET"

http://www.siriusxm.com/outlawcountry


EDIT: Forget about it. I got it now  :)