Bob Dylan coated Jerry Lee Lewis’ “I Cannot Appear to Say Goodbye” because the encore of his live performance in England on Friday evening, paying tribute to the not too long ago departed rock ‘n’ curler.
Within the video, which you’ll be able to watch under, Dylan introduces the tune by telling the viewers, “I don’t know what number of of you understand, however Jerry Lee’s gone. We’re gonna play this tune, one in every of his. Jerry Lee will stay ceaselessly – everyone knows that.”
Lee’s loss of life at 87 resulted in a variety of tributes from throughout the rock spectrum. The singer and pianist had been sick for a while, affected by the best way he’d “abused his physique so completely as a younger man,” his publicist stated in a press release. “Someplace on the earth, in a imply little honky-tonk or massive music corridor or church basement rec room, somebody is taking part in a Jerry Lee Lewis tune,” the assertion added.
Don Robertson wrote “I Can’t Appear to Say Goodbye,” and Lewis recorded it throughout his tenure with Solar Data. It wasn’t launched till 1970, after the Solar catalog had modified palms and was being mined for materials that might make the most of artists’ present statuses. Lewis had reinvented himself as a rustic musician by the point “I Can’t Appear to Say Goodbye” turned a High 10 nation hit.
Dylan and Lewis crossed paths whereas working in the identical studio in 1969. Dylan informed Rolling Stone that yr that he wrote “To Be Alone With You” for Lewis, although the tune appeared on Dylan’s personal country-influenced Nashville Skyline. When Lewis returned to rock ’n’ roll in 1979, he coated Dylan’s 1976 B-side “Rita Might.”
Dylan is at the moment touring the U.Okay., with six reveals remaining earlier than the run ends on Nov. 7.
Jerry Lee Lewis Via the Years: Photograph Gallery
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