"When Jerry Lee Lewis performed the concert that became this album in the spring of 1964, his career was at its lowest point. Following his scandalous marriage to his teenage cousin, he was virtually blacklisted in the U.S., " ???? GOOD!!!!! Sorry to be a 2020s-prude-ass take here, but it's weird to read this as the opening track titled "High School Confidential" plays that relationship should have been confidential!!!! The blurb on my player continued to call this the purest rock and roll ever put to vinyl and, while I really love the band's energy, I'm mostly left wondering today whether it really was just that simple in the 50s and 60s to capture America's hearts and minds. Listening to this or any of the Elvis records just makes me upset that I live in the timeline where the Black artists of the era couldn't play most of the clubs and didn't get preserved on records in the same way. How many of these albums have Little Richard covers on them trying to do the exact same styling. This album's greatest blessing is that he's ripping through all the tracks so fast it's a very short affair. I take that back, the sound quality on the piano and drums is pretty good for a live recording, the cymbals ringing is nice on Good Golly Miss Molly while Lewis trips himself up trying to plow through it while also carrying a tune. 1.5