Knox Phillips Sessions: The Unreleased Recordings

Knox Phillips Sessions: The Unreleased Recordings

Jerry Lee left Sun in 1963, but, like Elvis, returned often. By the mid-1970s, the studio was run by Sam Phillips' son, Knox, who produced one of the era's biggest hits, the Amazing Rhythm Aces' &#34:Third Rate Romance.&#34: Like his father, Knox intuitively understood how to produce Jerry Lee Lewis, allowing him free rein to plunder his subconscious for half-forgotten songs and reimagine them as Jerry Lee Lewis songs, just as he d done with &#34:Whole Lotta Shakin;&#34: twenty years earlier.<br><br>Over the course of several nights, Knox recorded Jerry Lee Lewis as he crossed the breadth of American music from Stephen Foster to Jim Croce's still-current hit &#34:Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.&#34: Alongside a nineteenth century gospel standard, &#34:Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior,&#34: Jerry drawled his way imperiously through pop classics like &#34:Harbor Lights,&#34: and timeless country hits like &#34:Room Full of Roses.&#34: Although he wrote none of the songs, Jerry Lee imprints himself forcefully upon them, perhaps never more so than on the bitterly regretful &#34:That Kind of Fool.&#34: