Great balls of inner fire
February 21, 2020

Jerry Lee Lewis - from being paralyzed to playing a new record

A lovely story in the Rolling Stone about Jerry Lee Lewis who, after having a stroke and being paralyzed, started playing again. He had not played music since February 2019, when he suffered a serious stroke that robbed him of use of his right hand. When he entered Nashville recording studio late last month he told his team and producer T-Bone Burnett that he didn’t want a piano in the room at all: his right hand wasn’t working, and he just wanted to sing. But they kept one in the room just in case. When Lewis sat on its stool, he couldn’t help but lift his right hand onto the keys. To his own surprise, his fingers started moving...