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Boogie Woogie Country Man (1975)

Where the lyrics of Boogie Woogie Country Man take you, and where it was really made.

Jerry Lee Lewis returned to hard honky-tonk country on this 1975 album, yet its title track peaked only at number 24.

Key places

Recorded in Nashville (1975)

Recording site Nashville — The album page links Nashville, Tennessee as the place where the album was recorded. The point is set at the city center, and the source does not name a studio. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Boogie Woogie Country Man: studio album by American musician and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
• Released in 1975 on Mercury Records
• A return of sorts to the more hardcore honky-tonk country style
• Title track rocked up; ballads and Tom T. Hall songs included

Background

• Recalls the honky-tonk country albums Lewis made in the late 1960s and early 1970s
• His 1972 album Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano...Think About It, Darlin' and his 1973 album Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough had heavy countrypolitan production
• Producer Jerry Kennedy kept the background singers to sweeten Lewis's increasingly slurred rasp

Recording

• The heavy-handed countrypolitan production was scaled back to an extent
• Lewis rocks up the title track
• He gives soulful performances on I'm Still Jealous of You and Tom T. Hall's Red Hot Memories (Ice Cold Beer)
• On another Hall tune, I Can Still Hear the Music in the Restroom, Lewis flaunts his hard-living reputation by confessing to snorting cocaine before lying stupefied drunk on a washroom floor
• That song was released as a single but failed to reach the top ten
• Personnel include The Jordanaires, Millie Kirkham and Trish Williams on backing vocals, Charlie McCoy on harmonica and vibraphone, and Pete Drake and Lloyd Green on steel guitar

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• American country and rock and roll pianist, singer, and songwriter, nicknamed "The Killer".
• Made first recordings in 1952 at Cosimo Matassa's J&M Studio in New Orleans; early Sun Records recordings in 1956 in Memphis.
• 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" brought worldwide fame; followed by "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential".
• 1964 live album Live at the Star Club, Hamburg is widely regarded as one of the greatest live rock albums.
• Switched to country in 1968 with "Another Place, Another Time", which revived his career; 30 songs reached the Billboard country top 10 across his career.
• Last Man Standing (2006) was his best-selling release; Mean Old Man (2010) was another major seller.
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1986) and the Country Music Hall of Fame (2022).

Members

• Solo artist; the Million Dollar Quartet session on Sun Records included Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

Reappraisal

• Bruce Eder of AllMusic: presents Jerry Lee Lewis in a surprisingly laid-back mode
• Eder: he does ballads and gospel in what is almost a reflective manner for him
• Eder: some of the songs are downright cautionary
• Eder: he is amazingly effective on songs such as Jesus Is on the Mainline

Records

• Billboard country albums chart: number 16
• Title track: peaked at number 24, worse than the Restroom single
• I Can Still Hear the Music in the Restroom: released as a single and failed to reach the top ten

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The French Wikipedia tracklist lists 11 songs, including the title track.
• In 2014 Lewis told biographer Rick Bragg that an artist can only have so many hit records.
• The title track fared worse than the Restroom single, peaking at number 24.
• Charlie McCoy played harmonica and vibraphone on the album.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · fr.wikipedia.org

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