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...seven others, initially slicked up with overdubbing, heard here "raw"; 77 more tracks, released pretty much at random after the Sun catalogue was sold in 1969, are presented in original mono sound; there are also 60 never-issued alternate takes of songs like Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, and eight cuts never released before, including a lubricious version of the Pat Boone groaner, Love Letters in the Sand...
...could well have acted just like him. Four times married (and not always with the benefit of previous divorce), a few times rich, many times broke, Lewis was briefly, with Presley away in the Army and the youth of America hot-wired by the strains of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, the Absolute Supreme Being of rock. But scandal brought him low: the British press cooked up a fine frenzy over Jerry Lee's marriage to his 13-year-old cousin Myra Brown. Women married young back...
...Musta Notta Gotta Lotta (Southcoast/MCA). Joe Ely knows where to find the rockabilly roots along those back-country roads...
...kind of country sound Joe Ely has set down on five fine albums -the newest, Musta Notta Gotta Lotta, was released in February-bears little resemblance to the chart-topping fodder of Kenny Rogers or the cuddlesome crooning of Eddie Rabbitt. Anyone who considers that those old boys sing country music is guaranteed to be mixed up and maybe a little unsettled by Joe Ely. Country slickers like Eddie and Kenny have helped divert the mainstream of Nashville about 1,600 miles west, right into the middle of Las Vegas, where a soft pedal steel guitar...
Trouble was, they could never match the heat of the performers. Hetling is that the early rockers come on as strong now as they ever did. Berry, doing a mean strut and split to Sweet Little Sixteen; Jerry Lee Lewis, ripping through a typically delirious rendition of Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On; Holly, singing Peggy Sue straight into the TV camera as if he wanted to short out the cathode-ray tubes: nothing cute, quaint or antique about any of this...