SHE EVEN WOKE ME UP TO SAY GOODBYE
BOTH RAVEN
By the late-'60s, Lewis was still reeling from the outrage following marriage to his under-age cousin. Smash Records offered salvation in a return to the country roots he couldn't shake. Fusing sweaty R&B, gospel, hillbilly and Tin Pan Alley with teary balladry, working-man's blues and nods to Haggard and Jimmie Rodgers, 1968's Another Place... and She Even Woke... (1970)?bolstered by six add-ons from in between LP She Still Comes Around?find the man fired up, happily unable to resist the odd, impassioned pounding of ivories in the process.
SHE EVEN WOKE ME UP TO SAY GOODBYE
BOTH RAVEN
By the late-’60s, Lewis was still reeling from the outrage following marriage to his under-age cousin. Smash Records offered salvation in a return to the country roots he couldn’t shake. Fusing sweaty R&B, gospel, hillbilly and Tin Pan Alley with teary balladry, working-man’s blues and nods to Haggard and Jimmie Rodgers, 1968’s Another Place… and She Even Woke… (1970)?bolstered by six add-ons from in between LP She Still Comes Around?find the man fired up, happily unable to resist the odd, impassioned pounding of ivories in the process.