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Jerry Lee Lewis - Mercury Smashes...And Rockin' Sessions

Primary Artist
Jerry Lee Lewis
Album Title
Mercury Smashes...And Rockin' Sessions
Release Date
December 13, 2000 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
The third installment of Bear Family's exhaustive reissue of Jerry Lee Lewis' complete recordings, Mercury Smashes...and Rockin' Sessions, covers the era that many listeners, even some fans, dismiss -- his late-'60s and '70s recordings for Mercury. Conventional wisdom claims that The Killer was pretty much spent as a creative force during this time, since he had already made his near-triumphant comeback as a hard country singer on Mercury in the mid-'60s, and that he coasted on formula, except for the concentrated burst of the Roots album. Read More