LEWIS, JERRY LEE
(*1935)
LEWIS, JERRY LEE (b. Ferriday, La., September 29, 1935) The Ferriday Fireball, the original wild man of ROCKABILLY and country, Jerry Lee has his career divided into two major parts in standard biographies: his original 1950s hits, in a rockabilly/pop-rock style, followed by his comeback in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s as a country star. Actually, Jerry Lee has always recorded country songs, often as B-sides to his original rock hits, and his sensibility is as pure country as you can get. The…