Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story Audiobook (Free)

New York Occasions Bestseller

The best Southern storyteller of our time, NY Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller ever, Jerry Lee Lewis-and gets his own story, from the source, for the first time.

A monumental figure in the American panorama, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his years as a child bringing up hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the globe with hit records like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of about Jerry Lee Lewis: His Personal Story Fireplace,” that gave stone its devil’s advantage; caused riots and boycotts along with his incendiary shows; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin-his third wife of seven; went a decades-long marathon of medicines, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the fatalities of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that still left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he began with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Child Rock-and survived it all to become hailed as “probably one of the most innovative and important figures in American popular tradition and a paradigm of the Southern encounter.”

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer’s existence as he lived it, and as he shared it over two years with this very best bard of Southern existence: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis’s own words and phrases, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospheric narrative, this is actually the last great untold rock-and-roll story, become more active on the page.