Superchunk Live, RIP Jerry Lee Lewis
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4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2022
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot are joined by indie rock stalwarts Superchunk for a live performance and interview at the Goose Island Tap Room in Chicago. The hosts also pay tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Featured Songs:
Superchunk, "Endless Summer," Wild Loneliness, Merge, 2022
Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire," Great Balls of Fire (Single), Sun, 1957
Jerry Lee Lewis and the Nashville Teens, "Good Golly, Miss Molly (Live 1964)," Live at the Star Club, Hamburg, Philips, 1964
Jerry Lee Lewis, "Middle Age Crazy," Country Memories, Mercury, 1977
Superchunk, "This Night," Wild Loneliness, Merge, 2022
Superchunk, "Wild Loneliness," Wild Loneliness, Merge, 2022
Superchunk, "City of the Dead," Wild Loneliness, Merge, 2022
Superchunk, "Endless Summer (Live on Sound Opinions)," Wild Loneliness, Merge, 2022
Superchunk, "If You're Not Dark," Wild Loneliness, Merge, 2022
Superchunk, "Learned to Surf (Live on Sound Opinions)," Majesty Shredding, Merge, 2010
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the Patreon page and free. |
| 0:08.0 | One, two, three, four! |
| 0:30.0 | You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we have Super Jump performing live at the Coos Island Tap Room. I'm Jim D. Regatta's. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm Greg Cutt, but first we've got to pay tribute to the recently deceased Jerry Lee Lewis. |
| 0:43.0 | We need to pay tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the architects of rock and roll. The last of the great 50s innovators, |
| 1:04.0 | the innovators, the last man standing from that era, 87 years old. Inevitable, we all have to go sometime, but Jerry Lee in so many ways seemed indestructible. |
| 1:15.0 | Oh for sure, but him and he survived everything. |
| 1:20.0 | And everybody knows about the string of hits at Sun Records with Sam Phillips in Memphis in the 50s. |
| 1:29.0 | And there's a bearer family who put out these box sets. And I remember buying that box set when I was younger, just to sort of learn about the guy. |
| 1:38.0 | And they had a lot of interstitial material there. What was the dialogue like between Jerry Lee and Sam Phillips in the studio when he's recording great balls of fire, for example. |
| 1:49.0 | That Pentecostal background juxtaposed with him performing the so-called devil's music. |
| 1:56.0 | It was a conflict throughout his entire life. And he verbalized it as he was recording great balls of fire, this Otis Blackwell song. |
| 2:06.0 | He thought, you know, this is the devil's music. I am surely going to go to hell for recording this song. |
| 2:13.0 | H-E-L-L. |
| 2:16.0 | That's right. It says, it says, make marriage with the joy of God only. |
| 2:28.0 | But when it comes to worldly music, rock it out. |
| 2:33.0 | If anybody like that, you have to talk just up to the world, and you're in the world, and you hadn't come from out of the world, and you're still a sinner. |
| 2:40.0 | But I'm going to go ahead and do it anyway. |
| 2:43.0 | I'm going to go silent, and I'm going to go rocking. |
| 2:46.0 | Well, he was still conflicted. You found a 2015 interview where you're still worried about going to hell? |
| 2:51.0 | Yeah, right. I mean, the guy was in his entire life, and he came from a super religious family upbringing. |
| 3:00.0 | You know, Jimmy Swagger? |
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