Mean Old Man

Performer: Jerry Lee Lewis
Artist: Ron Wood; Kid Rock; Slash; Keith Richards; Eric Clapton; James Burton; John Mayer; Jon Brion; Ringo Starr; John Fogerty; Mick Jagger; Sheryl Crow; Willie Nelson; Tim McGraw
Producer: Steve Bing; Jim Keltner...
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Jerry Lee Lewis (vocals, piano). Audio Mixers: Jim Keltner; Ken Sluiter; Martin Pradler. Recording information: Bay 7 Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Capitol studios, Los Angeles, CA; EastWest Studios, Los Angeles, CA; Memphis House Of Blues; One East Recording, New York; Pedernales Studio Austin; Record Plant, Los Angeles, CA; Sage & Sound, Los Angeles, CA; Steakhouse Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Sunset Sound, Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: Gary Burden. Lewis follows 2006's Last Man Standing with a second album of duets, Mean Old Man, which features tracks with Eric Clapton, Merle Haggard, John Fogerty, Kid Rock, and others.

Rolling Stone - "On the ferocious rave-up 'Rockin' My Life Away,' Lewis shows the decades-younger Kid Rock and Slash how to do it." Billboard (p.40) - "[O]ne only need hear his bluesy solo piano version of 'Miss the Mississippi and You' to appreciate that Lewis still has his chops after 50 years." Mojo (Publisher) (p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ronnie Wood donates the guitar licks on the title track, Slash supplies the pickin' on 'Rockin' My Life Away' and Keith Richards provides back-up on 'Sweet Virginia.'" Record Collector (magazine) (pp.83-85) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "This is a genuine legend in party mode....The Solomon Burke-assisted gospel holler of `Railroad To Heaven' stands proudly alongside the best of his past glories." Uncut (magazine) (p.93) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lewis' piano still sounds as urgent and uncontained as it did when rock'n'roll was invented on it, and his insouciant snarl remains thrillingly feral."

Owing as much to 1950s wrestling bad guy Gorgeous George as he did to Elvis Presley, rock's original wildman didn't so much play rock & roll as he played Jerry Lee Lewis. A powerful honky-tonk pianist and singer, Lewis is that rare breed of star whose outsize ego is more than matched by his talent. He was among the first to show that the piano could challenge the guitar's rock & roll hegemony, and--along with Elvis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins--he formed the legendary mid-'50s stable of Sun Records, a group of performers that would forever change the face of popular music.

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