By Tribune staff
BIRMINGHAM –In October, famed Southern writer and current University of Alabama instructor Rick Bragg released his latest book, Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story. Weld for Birmingham’s Courtney Haden sat down with Bragg to discuss the tree year long project on the rock and roll icon.
You can read the full interview here.
“He was in his bedroom. There were these really hot days, I remember, but the bedroom was always kind of cool and dark, and I would sit in a rocking chair beside his bed, and Jerry Lee would walk me back off down the past, to Sun Records, to Ferriday, Louisiana, to the day he made Elvis cry.” – Rick Bragg