Country Songs For City Folks
发行时间:1965-01-01
发行公司:Mercury Nashville
简介: Country Songs for City Folks (later repackaged and retitled All Country) was one of those albums from a period that, for most of us, can safely be called Jerry Lee Lewis' "lost years," in between his legendary-'50s rise to fame and subsequent flame-out, and his comeback as a country artist and subsequent return to rock & roll as a living legend on the oldies circuit. Apart from Live at the Star Club, which was a sort of British Invasion-related crossover oddity; few except serious fans know a lot about Lewis' records from this period. Country Songs for City Folks is an astoundingly good country album, presenting Lewis as more of a rich-voiced crooner than a piano-playing wild man (not that there aren't some places where the ivories ripple, especially on "Wolverton Mountain"), throwing his pipes hard into numbers like
Country Songs for City Folks (later repackaged and retitled All Country) was one of those albums from a period that, for most of us, can safely be called Jerry Lee Lewis' "lost years," in between his legendary-'50s rise to fame and subsequent flame-out, and his comeback as a country artist and subsequent return to rock & roll as a living legend on the oldies circuit. Apart from Live at the Star Club, which was a sort of British Invasion-related crossover oddity; few except serious fans know a lot about Lewis' records from this period. Country Songs for City Folks is an astoundingly good country album, presenting Lewis as more of a rich-voiced crooner than a piano-playing wild man (not that there aren't some places where the ivories ripple, especially on "Wolverton Mountain"), throwing his pipes hard into numbers like