[Louisiana – he might
not live there now but he is forever Louisiana] Oh Jerry – he was the point of
this whole weekend – sure I know his hits, but he was never momentous to me – I
appreciate his music though and I appreciate his style, especially after weeks
of tutelage in his finer moments - so
I’m all amped up to see this wild-haired, piano-bench-thrusting guy who made
50s kids writhe like they were possessed, and I’m even prepared for the fact
that he has aged since those days, but I wasn’t quite prepared to see a
hunch-backed old man helped out onto the stage to sit on his piano bench, where
he sat stiffly for the remainder of the show – a lesson in mortality, my
friends: age will seriously tame even the wildest of us – where’s his 13-year-old cousin now? -
anyway, he actually put on a great show – he can still sing and he can still
play – the piano honestly sounded a little muddy to me at times, but I’m not
sure I’ve ever seen piano, boogie piano at least, live and maybe that’s just
the way it sounds – by the late-middle of the show, he was cracking jokes with
the audience and telling some rowdy little jokes and it’s clear he’s a man who
has enjoyed his time in a serious way – despite that, he has been described as
worrying more than other sinners over his post-death fate, what with his
fundamentalist religious beginnings (and continuings possibly) which is a
pretty fascinating way to have endured through life
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