Jerry Lee Lewis Live At The Star Club, Hamburg- Lost & Found
Jerry Lee Lewis'Live At The Starclub, Hamburg, 1963 is probably the greatest live rock'n'roll album ever made. It wasn't released in the U.S. until the early ninties when Rhino re-issued it on CD (I think it's now out of print), but UK re-issues are fairly easy to find. It's one speed driven, frenzied, rock'n'roll moment, captured on wax forever. Now, Joe Bonomo, who wrote the wonderful Fleshtones bio Sweat (Continuum Books, 2007) has just published Jerry Lee Lewis-- Lost and Found (Continuum Books, 2009), an entire book telling the story of that great LP. It's quite a story and a must for the Jerry Lee Lewis fan, I assume his next book will be the story of Johnny & the Hurricanes Live At The Star Club.
I love this album, pure energy. I've started the Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and found book, it is really good, I would recommend it to anyone who likes rock and roll
Jerry Lee Lewis is the favorite singer of my mom and she was talking about the possibility to listen to some of his songs again, but she lost the discs. I will tell her about this post, she will be so happy, thanks!
James "The Hound" Marshall is a former WFMU deejay (1985-97), music writer and bar owner (Lakeside Lounge NYC, Circle Bar, New Orleans). He has contributed articles to dozens of mags and newspapers including the Village Voice, NY Times, LA Weekly, Spin, Penthouse Forum, New York Rocker, Newark Star-Ledger, East Village Eye, High Times (columnist for ten years), Kicks, and worse.
He also wrote liner notes to CD re-issues by Larry Williams and Johnny Guitar Watson, Ray Price, Eric Ambel, Challenge Records,The Okeh R&B Box, and others as well as compiling three volumes of the early rock'n'roll compilations Jook Block Busters (Valmor). At age 17 he edited two issues of the punk fanzine New Order (1977) He was born in Paterson, N.J. and raised mostly in Broward County, Florida, moving to New York City at age 18 in 1977 and has resided there ever since except for 1998-2002 when he split his time between New York and New Orleans. He has been acclaimed in print in the New York Times, Village Voice, Time Out New York, New York Magazine,The Manhattan Catalogue, and other publications you wouldn't be caught dead reading.
6 comments:
I love the Live at the Starclub album,the energy level is unreal
Bear Family will reissue a vinyl version of the LP early 2010!
Unfucking believable record from start to finish. Explodes!
I love this album, pure energy. I've started the Jerry Lee Lewis Lost and found book, it is really good, I would recommend it to anyone who likes rock and roll
This is my favorite "live" record of all-time. I can't wait to read the book
Jerry Lee Lewis is the favorite singer of my mom and she was talking about the possibility to listen to some of his songs again, but she lost the discs. I will tell her about this post, she will be so happy, thanks!
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