''There Must Be More to Love Than This'' is an album by

Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935October 28, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Nicknamed "The Killer", he was described as "rock & roll's first great wild man". A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made ...

that was released on

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in 1971.

Summary

The theme of

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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

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) 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

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's "

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," 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

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'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 number 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'

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mourns the valid regret at its center."

Track listing

Personnel

*Jerry Lee Lewis – vocals, piano *Buck Hutcheson, Chip Young,

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, Ray Edenton – guitar *Ned Davis – steel guitar *

– fiddle *

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, Eddie DeBruhl – bass * Buddy Harman,

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– drums

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Authority control 1971 albums Jerry Lee Lewis albums Albums produced by Jerry Kennedy Mercury Records albums