Jerry Lee Lewis : I'M LEFT, YOU'RE RIGHT, SHE'S GONE

Although Jerry Lee had scored 14 Top Ten country hits since 1968 (including four number ones), The Killer had never been asked to perform at the hallowed Grand Ole Opry.

He had always maintained ambivalent feelings towards Music City. Lewis was never truly accepted in Nashville. He didn’t move there and didn’t schmooze there. He didn’t fit in with the family values crowd. Lewis family values were different.

And when Jerry Lee finally took the stage on January 20, 1973, he broke just about every rule the Opry had. 

As recounted in a 2015 Rolling Stone article by Beville Dunkerley, Lewis  announced to the audience, "Let me tell ya something about Jerry Lee Lewis, ladies and gentlemen: I am a rock and rollin', country-and-western, rhythm and blues-singin' motherfucker!"

Ignoring his allotted time constraints - and, thus, commercial breaks - Lewis played for 40 minutes (the average Opry performance is two songs, for about eight minutes maximum of stage time) and invited Del Wood - the one member of the Opry who had been kind to him when he had been there as a teenager - out on stage to sing with him.

Then, he blasted through a host of rock'n'roll classics before leaving the stage to a thunderous standing ovation.

The release of I'M LEFT, YOU'RE RIGHT, SHE'S GONE, the rollicking second single from Jerry Lee's Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough LP followed not long after Lewis's first and only appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.

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