Jerry Lee Lewis - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

"The meanest mother-humper in the whole damn town" :-D
Another song from the album "The Knox Phillips Sessions" (2014)

[@thomasminarchickjr.7355]

Cousin Kenny Vaughn and Otis Gibbs sent me here. Thanks Killer

[@simonvanderheijden432]

Lol, me too. Found the Don't f... with the Lewises video too..

[@brucegwynn8509]

Me too brother

[@TheOfficialCole]

Same!

[@Thombrawley1]

Yep!

[@michaelearnest4175]

Yep! And it was totally worth it!

[@johndonabie5150]

Kenny Vaughn brought me here as well. Thank you Kenny. Discovered you with Lucinda Williams a thousand years ago.

[@billmcnabb1037]

Love live open recording sessions. Just push record and see what happens. Like Jerry said ‘fix it?’ ‘ I already sang that one, let’s sing another one’ just singing and playing at the same time, real music! Thx guys.

[@brucegwynn8509]

Got here from Otis Gibbs channel and I'm glad that I did

[@budelmore6286]

Same

[@HypnoticYogi]

Me too!

[@johnloftus6043]

three

[@Leisnash]

Me too!

[@thomastarwater2989]

Wow! First time I ever heard Jerry Lee Lewis sing that Jim Croce song, and made it all his. Croce would have been proud.

[@jimmieroan9881]

hard to believe that anyone would rather hear canned shit than real music like this, ive seen him so drunk he had to be helped on stage and play and sing till dawn and better than any ive ever seen. this is what music is supposed to be about, this is entertainment from way back. i'm from the old days where bands played behind chain link fence

[@gynack]

++jimmie Roan Man, I envy you. I did manage to see him in London in the early or mid-60's. A really dynamic performer. When was this recorded? His voice sounds a bit on the hoarse side although it's still got plenty of power. I've never come across this before. He sounds as if he's got a shot in in him, going by the way he blethers on at the end.

[@BS1af]

jimmie Roan Always #1 KILLER The consummate performer! God-Given talent. No one has ever come close to him; like you said 'real music'...!!!

[@johnpearce3714]

TREVOR MORRIS , THIS C.D. IS AVAILABLE . THAT'S IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT IT YET?! JOHN IN UK. P.S. IT HAS BEEN OUT FOR A WHILE .

[@AnnaLVajda]

Booze is a performance enhancing drug for some of us.

[@dougdavis8986]

You're old

[@MichaelBickley-nn7xt]

JERRY LEE LEWIS WAS the best bad ass piano player and singer of all time period!!!

[@kevineydmann5976]

Greatest ever singer piano player. Great song. best ever version.

[@wittry2]

Otis and Kenny sent me. Glad they did.

[@musicadedentroprafora3034]

The best piano player ever!!!

[@hamletsmill258]

He was very limited in many ways; as is your knowledge on piano.

[@s.r.r.]

JLL is unsurpassed. Never heard him do a bad song. I will always love his music.

[@adrianotero7963]

The one and only.......the killer.

[@ontheochils]

Genius......

[@adrianotero7963]

Best version of Leroy Brown !

[@donaldnichols49]

GREAT SONG

[@louiebyas8481]

"He broke my nose, I had a hoe and I whooped the shit right outta him" what a lyric 👌👌

[@Sandro2367]

Badass.

[@eekwiet]

baddest mother humper

[@franklinbumgartener1323]

i hadn't heard that phrase since elementary school.... I didn't know what it meant then... I still don't, thank the Lord.

[@wignersfriend2766]

Listening to this for the first time and thinking there is something vaguely familiar about a snippet of the melody and the chord progression, and then it struck me: the song it reminds me of is an oldie - "Ride Captain Ride." Not suggesting anything at all by it, but wondering, "is it just me?" Anyway, this is good, but I prefer Jim Croce's version.

[@AlexFillios]

hes a baaadd boy hes a badd boy............. lord hes baaad.

[@carlosnavarro8181]

GUT BUCKED BLUES!!!

[@oneeyedman99]

I was brought here by Robert Christgau's review of this album: *He's always preferred to call himself a stylist, not a rocker, and these impromptu late-'70s recordings with Sam's son cohere into a lost concept album that proves him right. After transforming Leroy Brown into a Memphis motherhumper who stomps all over Jim Croce's stupid cartoon and wears the tatters around his neck like a victory garland, he rewrites a Moon Mullican blues, matches a 50s Chuck Berry medley with a 50s Teresa Brewer-Hugo Winterhalter medley, covers a humble Fanny Crosby hymn and a schlocky Mickey Gilley hit, posits a humble country hit of his own, and--after anointing America's first fulltime professional songwriter "one of the greats of all time" along with Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, and Al Jolson theirself--goes out on the greatest weeper Stephen Foster ever wept. His piano pumping irrepressibly, Jerry Lee defines his musical identity in the middle of the night with nobody listening: a stylist who can't stop rocking.*

[@nonaplane]

ha thats great, one thing else is that this is the kind of piano playing that gets you killed, proper soul

[@jeffkirpach4815]

Sam?

[@ThePeteMan]

Proving that even a complete coke-addled narcissist like Christgau can get it right once in a blue moon

[@ThePeteMan]

@@jeffkirpach4815 Sam Phillips

[@damohanson5393]

One of a very select few

[@shovelhead56]

Jim Croce for me

[@DigitalAndInnovation]

I had no clue Andrew Cuomo sang!

[@bartowens1860]

I think this is Jerry Reed

[@musicfanhawk4523]

Absolutely NOT!! It IS JERRY LEE LEWIS !!! Better listen more closely!!

[@simonvanderheijden432]

How about no...

[@jeffkirpach4815]

Bart, you're high bro!. it's some southside ChiTown pimp....probably 100s of 'em. but Croach is dead so we don't know which one. could be Willie the Wimp.... but SRV is dead so we don't kknow.

[@jeffkirpach4815]

clda been better, amirite?

[@theokie3270]

What a heck of a mess!

[@darrylrevok7642]

A king drunk with power.

[@nonaplane]

This is the kind of piano that gets you in a fight with the kind of people like Leroy brown

[@adrianotero7963]

Kyle Beltran correction, not power.....but talent......

[@AnnaLVajda]

I love it. Great tempo.

[@MathsYknow]

I get the feeling that Jerry just made the words up on the fly, since "if you don't like it, you can kiss my ***"...

[@hamletsmill258]

One of his worst recordings.

[@hamletsmill258]

Horrible.

[@miccullen]

Not releasing it was a good decision

[@adrianotero7963]

Best version of Leroy Brown.

[@zombiemaster3997]

I think this is better than the Jim Croce version, and I grew up on that version

[@DalonCole]

That;s one opinion

[@franklinbumgartener1323]

False.

[@davidcarroll1883]

This is no worse than Dean Martin's version.

[@adrianotero7963]

david carroll both version are great......

[@davidcarroll1883]

I liked Frank Sanatra's version better.

[@franklinbumgartener1323]

@@davidcarroll1883 Gross!

[@eddiepro1969]

Unpolished but Epic