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Alabama Women's Prison Blues · Mack Vickery

from 'Live at the Alabama Women's Prison'

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Jerry Lee Lewis & Keith Richards – “That Kind of Fool” Song written by Mack Vickery

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“Meat Man”

Performed by Jerry Lee Lewis and written by Mack Vickery. A two-minute, fifty-second ode to... well, I guess it’s always open to interpretation, isn’t it? But, tell me, just what else could “licked the fuzz off a Georgia Peach” mean?

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“Alabama Women's Prison Blues”

By Mack Vickery. He’s one of my favorite “characters” in country music history. He started off as another guy reaching for Elvis’ brass ring and wrote a passel of country hits for everyone from Waylon Jennings (”Cedartown, Georgia) to Johnny Paycheck (”I’m The Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)”). He’s probably most well-known for being Jerry Lee Lewis’ greatest muse apart from Otis Blackwell.

This was recorded in an actual women’s prison, the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Alabama. A side note, the prison was ranked one of the 10 worst in the country thanks to investigative reporting by Mother Jones. The state promised to enact reforms, even promising to close the prison in 2016 until repairs were made and reforms were enacted. However, at this writing, it’s still opening and change is slow.

This, however, is electric. Like Johnny Cash’s prison records, it has that wild energy of caged humans desperate for entertainment, just to feel human again. According to Colin Escott’s liner notes, over 80% of the women incarcerated at the time of recording were in jail for killing a two-timing or abusive lover, and Mack plays to the crowd and they’re in his hands the whole time. These ladies are into it and the album is well worth checking out.

Dig it.

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John Anderson – “Tokyo, Oklahoma” Song written by Mack Vickery. I don’t think Anderson sings this one on stage anymore...probably because of that “be honorable number one wife to you” line.

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”Jerry Lee Lewis’ collection of musician autographs.” being sold at The Sale Room, by his sixth ex-wife, Kerrie McCarver, who’s releasing her book, “The Killer and the Killerette.” 

Item(s) description: “ A Remo drumhead signed by Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Van Eaton, and the original band members from "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," housed in a glass case and inscribed on verso "Jerry, Happy Birthday! 9-29-01 Jimmy Van Eaton"; a framed publicity photograph of Hank Thompson signed to Lewis and dated " '97"; framed lyrics for "Mammy Jammin' Rocker #1" signed by lyricist Mack Vickery; a signed photo and two signed records from Vickery, with photographs of Lewis and Vickery; a hardcover copy of Ronnie Hawkins' Last of the Good Ol' Boys signed and inscribed to Lewis "to the Killer from the Hawk, Happy Birthday" and dated September 1989, with a letter from Backstage Productions International about the book; and two signed photographs from Charlie Feathers and a facsimile signed one, with five records. ” 

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Mack Vickery

Alabama Legend

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