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Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story LP
Contributor(s): Bragg, Rick (Author)
ISBN: 0062326686     ISBN-13: 9780062326683
Publisher: Harper Large Print
OUR PRICE:   $26.59  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: November 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Biography & Autobiography | Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 1.8" H x 5.9" W x 9" (1.85 lbs) 752 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

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, 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; nearly scuttled his career by marrying 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, framed by Bragg's richly atmospheric narrative, this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page.


Contributor Bio(s): Bragg, Rick: -

Rick Bragg is the author of a trilogy of bestselling books on the people of the American South. He is a professor of writing at the University of Alabama.