Jerry Lee Lewis Tribute -- (Don't Put) No Headstone on my Grave

From the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

Jerry Lee Lewis is the wild man of rock and roll, embodying its most reckless and high-spirited impulses. On such piano-pounding rockers from the late Fifties as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," Lewis combined a ferocious, boogie-style instrumental style with rowdy, uninhibited vocals.

He migrated to Memphis from Ferriday, Louisiana, where he'd grown up learning how to play piano by ear based on the music around him: Western swing, boogie-woogie, uptempo R&B and Delta blues. Lewis' first influence was the country-blues sound of Jimmie Rodgers, though he also absorbed the gospel and R&B of the local black community. His amalgamation of these indigenous styles, abetted by his brash temperament, made him a natural-born rock and roller -- maybe the ultimate rock and roll rebel. Lewis found a home at Sam Phillips' Sun Records label, whose stable of talent also included Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. After a country-flavored audition for Philips in 1956, Lewis was told that if he could come up with some rock and roll, "we could probably do something." Lewis didn't write much himself, but he transformed other people's songs into unbridled rock and roll that even he called "the devil's music."

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