Bob Dylan coated Jerry Lee Lewis’ “I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye” because the encore of his live performance in England on Friday night time, paying tribute to the just lately departed rock ‘n’ curler.
In the video, which you’ll be able to watch under, Dylan introduces the track by telling the viewers, “I don’t know how many of you know, but Jerry Lee’s gone. We’re gonna play this song, one of his. Jerry Lee will live forever – we all know 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 body so thoroughly as a young man,” his publicist stated in a press release. “Somewhere in the world, in a mean little honky-tonk or big music hall or church basement rec room, someone is playing a Jerry Lee Lewis song,” the assertion added.
Don Robertson wrote “I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye,” and Lewis recorded it throughout his tenure with Sun Records. It wasn’t launched till 1970, after the Sun catalog had modified fingers and was being mined for materials that would make the most of artists’ present statuses. Lewis had reinvented himself as a rustic musician by the point “I Can’t Seem to Say Goodbye” grew to become a Top 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 track 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 May.”
Dylan is at present touring the U.Okay., with six exhibits remaining earlier than the run ends on Nov. 7.
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