![]() Lewis's relationship with Elektra soon soured when its Nashville division was taken over by Jimmy Bowen. Extensively bootlegged, many Lewis's aficionados praise the recordings as some of his best. Sometime before the release of Killer Country, Lewis went to the Caribou Ranch recording studio in Colorado and cut more than thirty songs from a wide variety of genres, but Elektra rejected them. ![]() A something that you seldom ever can hear." The album also features Jerry Lee's first ever recording of " Folsom Prison Blues." "It had a certain feeling to it," Lewis told biographer Rick Bragg in 2014, "like a religious undertone. However, it is Lewis's version of " Somewhere Over the Rainbow" that is often singled out for praise although it only reached number 18 on the charts, Lewis altered the spirit of the song much like he had years earlier when he recorded a boogie-woogie version of " Me and Bobby McGee," his ravaged voice giving the usually optimistic Judy Garland classic a forlorn vulnerability. The single "Thirty-Nine and Holding" would rise to number 6, Lewis's first Top 10 country hit since "Middle Age Crazy" in 1977 and his last to date. Killer Country was produced by Eddie Kilroy, who had been involved with resurrecting Lewis's career back in 1968 when " Another Place, Another Time" hit the country charts.
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