Happy Birthday Jerry Lee Lewis

Today—September 29— is Jerry Lee Lewis' 75th Birthday. So a couple videos as a Happy Birthday salute.

The title track from his recently released album, "Mean Old Man"



A short interview about the new album, which includes the piano his family bought him when he was 8 years old.




If you like this, try these previous posts:

We Remember the King - August 16, 2010

Jerry Lee Lewis - November18, 2009

Rock & Roll - September 24, 2009

Autumn Leaves

I have missed the beginning of autumn by a couple days, and last Friday felt too much like summer in hell for a fall day. Still I am going to do this post to mark the change in seasons. This is a beautiful song that Paolo Nutini wrote about his grandfather. There are several live videos of it available, but it is difficult to get a good version of such a quiet song on a live recording, so here is the track from the album with fall pictures.

"Autumn Leaves"



If you like this, try these previous posts:

Fall - October 19, 2009

Paolo Nutinin - January 15, 2010

Trouble So Hard - February 1, 2010

Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone

Mavis Staples has a new album out this month produced by Jeff Tweedy. Titled You Are Not Alone, here are some videos of the two of them performing and discussing songs from the album.

From this summer's Lollapalooza concert, here is the title track.



"Wrote A Song For Everyone"



Staples and Tweedy discuss the album.




If you like this, try these previous posts:

Hard Times Come Again No More - September 10, 2009

Mavis Staples - April 30, 2010

The Staple Singers - May 13, 2010