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Leo Fender Honored Posthumously
The Recording Academy will bestow a technical award on the guitar maker whose instruments revolutionized pop music's sound. No invention since the phonograph more dramatically affected how popular music is made than Fender guitars, arriving as they did with the birth of rock 'n' roll. Buddy Holly was an early Fender convert; Jimi Hendrix used the ...
The Killer Plays Boogie Woogie Classics by Meade Lux Lewis

Label: Checkmate
Released: 2007
Track listing: Boogie Tidal; Glendale Glide; Messin' Around; Six Wheel Chaser; Blues Whistle; Yancey Special; Bear Cat Crawl; Hammer Chatter; Lux's Boogie; Honky Tonk Train Blues.
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer Plays Boogie Woogie Classics by Meade Lux Lewis

by Ken Dryden
Although Jerry Lee Lewis devoured boogie woogie at the age of ten, he soon incorporated it with gospel and country to develop his own style of rockabilly. But he always admired the giants of boogie woogie, particularly Meade Lux Lewis (who died in a 1964 car crash).Shortly after this tragedy, Jerry Lee Lewis went ...