Jerry Lee Lewis - There Must Be More to Love Than This (1970) Vinyl LP

Catalog Number: SR-61323

Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-), Sleeve Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Condition Details:

Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a couple creases near edges; slight discoloration and no scuffing (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (Mercury ads); one seam partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with very mild-wear. Little shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. Red 12-logo label. (Hole-punch in top-left.)

Tracks:

• There Must Be More To Love Than This
• Bottles And Barstools
• Reuben James
• I'd Be Talkin' All The Time
• One More Time
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Woman, Woman (Get Out Of Our Way)
• I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know
• Foolaid
• Home Away From Home
• Life's Little Up And Downs

About The Record:

The theme of adultery looms large on this album, containing "cheatin' songs" like Home Away from Home, Woman, Woman (Get Out of My Way) (co-written by his sister Linda Gail Lewis) and the Jerry Chesnut-penned title track, which had soared to the top of the country charts in 1970. Another stand out cut is Lewis's rendition of Charlie Rich's Life's Little Ups and Downs, a song that celebrates marriage and forgiveness, an ironic choice since Jerry Lee's marriage to his wife Myra was crumbling. Lewis remains especially fond of Sweet Georgia Brown – specifically guitarist Kenny Lovelace's fiddle break in the song, enthusing to biographer Rick Bragg in 2014, "He did that fiddle break on that thing – it's somethin' else, isn't it? I mean, you can never capture that again, like that. Oh man! What a record! It's so far above – so far ahead of anybody's thinkin' in the music business that they could never comprehend the meaning of it. It had the flavor of everything." There Must Be More to Love Than This was another hit album for Lewis, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard country charts. In 2009, Lewis biographer Joe Bonomo calls One More Time a "beautifully sung song in its balance of egoism and compromise, and Ned Davis' steel guitar mourns the valid regret at its center."