Jerry Lee Lewis: Live From Austin Texas

Jerry Lee Lewis: Live From Austin Texas
by Gary Menotti

Jerry Lee Lewis: Live From Austin Texas
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Actor: Jerry Lee Lewis
Director: Gary Menotti
Brand: RED DISTRIBUTION
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: DVD, Live, NTSC, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 55 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New West Records
Product features:
  • Jerry Lee Lewis took black rhythm & blues, white gospel and other funky Mississippi sounds and turned them into rock and roll. He almost never made it to Austin City Limits. He cancelled one appearance, and only weeks before this recording on October 17, 1983, his wife died in a freak swimming pool accident at their home. But he did make it, and what we have here is one of the most amazing perform

Movie Reviews of Jerry Lee Lewis: Live From Austin Texas

Movie Review: Great Concert by The Killer
Summary: 5 Stars

Saw this on TV in 1986. Loved it. Jerry Lee takes care of business here; he is in his prime. He is serious yet humorous throughout. A masterful performance by The Killer. His band is tight & excellent.

Summary of Jerry Lee Lewis: Live From Austin Texas

From the vaults of the award-winning PBS Austin City Limits TV show, this is the latest release in the acclaimed Live From Austin, TX series.

Rock and Roll s the thing, and Jerry Lee s the King... or so said an English fan once upon a time somewhere. Elvis fans might dispute that title, but nobody else in the history of popular music would dare call himself The Killer. Of all the legends who came out of Sun Records in the 1950s Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison no one would have bet the last one standing would be the pill-popping, whiskey-guzzling, gun-waving hellion from Ferriday, La. Except The Killer, of course.

Jerry Lee Lewis took black rhythm & blues, white gospel and other funky Mississippi sounds and turned them into rock and roll. But Jerry Lee s life also is, and has always been, his piano; he has kicked and banged and set on fire (literally) many of them over the course of six-plus decades.

He almost never made it to Austin City Limits. He cancelled one appearance, and only weeks before this recording on October 17, 1983, his wife died in a freak swimming pool accident at their home. But he did make it, and what we have here is one of the most amazing performances ever to go down on the ACL stage. Throughout the day he was a perfect gentleman, showing up on time and acting very graciously to one and all, but once he hit the stage, all hell broke loose. The songs speak for themselves; they re ALL here.

For many years later, Jerry Lee would carry a tape of this show to play for friends (and himself, many times). When producers tried to book him again for a return performance, the response was, Jerry Lee doesn t think he could possibly do a better show.

This DVD captures all the hits and more, and includes songs that were never aired on the original TV broadcast.

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