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She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye (1970)

Where the lyrics of She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye take you, and where it was really made.

A 1970 album by a rock-and-roll piano star reached the country chart, yet its recording studio is placed only at the city-center level of Nashville.

Key places

Recorded at Monument Recording Studios, Nashville (1970)

Recording site Nashville — The album was recorded at Monument Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. The point is placed at city-center level, not at the exact building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye is the thirteenth studio album by American musician and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis
• Released on Mercury Records in 1970
• Released in January 1970
• Eleven songs are listed, each with songwriter credits
• The first song listed is Once More with Feeling, credited to Kris Kristofferson and Shel Silverstein
• Other writers on the list include Merle Haggard, Chuck Berry, Jimmie Rodgers, Ivory Joe Hunter, Mickey Newbury, Doug Gilmore, Don Chapel and Paul Craft

Background

• Released by Mercury Records, the label that issued this album
• Lewis's earlier records Another Place and She Still Comes Around are the points of comparison in later critical writing on this album
• The album came out during Lewis's Mercury period

Recording

• Recorded at Monument Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee
• The studio location is listed only at city level
• Lewis sings and plays piano on the record

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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

At release

• Released January 1970
• Rose to number 9 on the Billboard country album chart
• AllMusic's Stephen Erlewine calls it the fieriest, loosest performances Lewis gave since leaving Sun, leaving out the then-unreleased Star Club live recording

Reappraisal

• Erlewine sets the album against Lewis's earlier country records Another Place and She Still Comes Around, saying this record pushes that hardcore country into a different stratosphere
• He calls it a spectacular pure Jerry Lee country record, where Lewis is the center of every cut and every performance
• He finds the record tremendously addictive for that reason

Records

• Billboard country album chart: number 9

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The song list names many outside writers, including Kris Kristofferson, Shel Silverstein, Merle Haggard, Chuck Berry and Jimmie Rodgers
• The title track is credited to Mickey Newbury and Doug Gilmore
• The last song, Echoes, is credited to Cecil Harrelson and Linda Gail Lewis
• AllMusic's Stephen Erlewine calls the album the fieriest, loosest performances Lewis gave since leaving Sun
• Hargus Pig Robbins is credited on organ and Ned Davis on steel guitar

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

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