I ran across the video. It brought tears to my eyes. It was recorded only four months ago, according to the text. "The Killer" is still doing it. Two old men whose time has long past are still getting the job done. I copied the audio and am going to put it on CD. There is a young piano player who plays a lot like Jerry Lee. This is good stuff.....
Whoops! I just found out this material is available on a CD probably from Amazon.
Though this is gospel music, it is played the way it should be. We called this "beer drinking gospel" when I was a kid. This is how our church orchestra played gospel music when the Western swing band played with them. You could dance to this kind of music if you wanted to. It brought a smile to your face and just makes you feel good.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-Arthur C. Clarke
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
-Upton Sinclair
Nick Spitzer's weekly radio show, "American Routes," is devoted entirely to Jerry Lee this week. Recordings, interviews with JLL and his two sisters. All good stuff. The program fades out on studio chatter from the "million dollar quartet" Sun Records recording session. Right at the end one of them says "Isn't this fun?" It made me think that when the artists are having fun, we listeners get the benefits. We humans are a strange species but we redeem ourselves from our many faults because we make music. Ain't it a miracle?
