Jerry Lee Lewis

After destroying his career in the 1950s through a regimen of drugs, alcohol, divorce and death, Lewis made a late '60s comeback on the country charts. The recharged Killer put out not only the best music of his life, but some of the best country music ever, before destroying his career through a regimen of drugs, alcohol, divorce and death.

First time he was trying, second time he wasn't, third time he gets lucky, from a "Folsom Prison Blues" that far outgrooves groove numbers like last time's "Rockin' Jerry Lee" to the magnificently over-the-hill "Thirty-Nine and Holding" to various generic throwaways about his mama and his pianner and his tomcat ways. Even "Over the Rainbow" ain't bad. (Grade - B+)