"Last Man Standing" is the latest album from the former star of the early rock & roll era Jerry Lee Lewis. At first grance, this album sounds like albums you would expected from the senior musicians. Every songs on this album not only are the cover song, but also the duet with his guest stars. There are 21 stars invited for this album, most of them are the songs' owner including Jimmy Page, B.B. King, Bruce Springsteen, etc.. Doesn't sound like the album of the former rock & roll killer, right? ...Wrong! The album comes out surprisingly better than it looks. You could feel the presence of Lewis in every songs. He took the original music out of the songs and filled them with his own rock & roll sound, and his guest stars really went along with it. The results are the songs that sound as if they are his long-lost Sun records. "Rock and Roll" is a perfect traditional rock & roll song and give no clues of Jimmy Page's hard rock sound. The Killer's piano sound in Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac" transforms Springsteen's rock into Lewis's rock nicely. This album proves that even in his seventies, Jerry Lee Lewis still not lose his rock & roll talent yet. (Although he might not as wild as he used to be) For rock & roll, this is a good album. The only question is that if he can produce songs that have almost no presence of original sound, why he bother to do the duet?
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