The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times
bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and
roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis--and gets his own story, from
the source, for the very first time.
A monumental figure on the American landscape, Southern boy
Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday,
Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit
records like "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of
Fire," that gave rock and roll its devil's edge; caused riots and
boycotts with his incendiary performances; married his
thirteen-year-old second cousin--his third wife of seven; ran a
decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his
maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and
the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the
broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from
Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid
Rock--and survived it all to be hailed as "one of the most creative
and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of
the Southern experience."
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer's life as he lived
it, and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of
Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis's own words, set in
context by Bragg's richly atmospheric narrative, filled with rare
and unpublished images, this is the last great untold rock-and-roll
story, come to life on the page.
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