Bob Dylan coated Jerry Lee Lewis’ “I Cannot Appear to Say Goodbye” because the encore of his live performance in England on Friday night time, paying tribute to the lately departed rock ‘n’ curler.
Within the video, which you’ll watch beneath, Dylan introduces the tune by telling the viewers, “I don’t know what number of of , however Jerry Lee’s gone. We’re gonna play this tune, one among his. Jerry Lee will reside ceaselessly – everyone knows that.”
Lee’s demise at 87 resulted in a variety of tributes from throughout the rock spectrum. The singer and pianist had been in poor health for a while, affected by the way in which he’d “abused his physique so totally as a younger man,” his publicist stated in an announcement. “Someplace on the earth, in a imply little honky-tonk or huge 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 Information. It wasn’t launched till 1970, after the Solar catalog had modified arms and was being mined for materials that would benefit from artists’ present statuses. Lewis had reinvented himself as a rustic musician by the point “I Can’t Appear to Say Goodbye” grew to become a Prime 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 exhibits remaining earlier than the run ends on Nov. 7.
Jerry Lee Lewis Via the Years: Picture Gallery
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