This week's Release Round-Up gave some illumination on Hip-o Select's latest, a triple-disc anthology of live material from the one and only Jerry Lee Lewis. But we wouldn't be doing our jobs right if we didn't elaborate on that one for you!

The Killer Live! 1964-1970 collates, for the first time on CD, four underrated live records from the irascible rocker's lengthy career - beginning at a time when the world had passed The Killer by. Five years before signing to Smash Records after his Sun Records contract expired in 1963, Lewis career had halted when a British journalist reported that he had married his first cousin, only 13 years old. (Lewis was 22.)

But the release of "Live" at the Star-Club, Hamburg in Europe in 1964 saw the continent take him back some. It didn't hurt that the LP was an absolute ripper, to this day a firm contender for one of the greatest live albums in rock history. Lewis' honky-tonk style and spontaneous fire was best served on this disc, although the U.S. counterparts, 1964's The Greatest Live Show on Earth and 1966's By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth, can hardly be considered disappointments.

By the 1970 release of Live at the International, Las Vegas, Lewis had found a second wind by embracing more traditional country tunes, starting with 1968's Top 5 Country comeback, "Another Place, Another Time." This vein is deeply explored on the latter half of the set's second disc, with renditions of country singles "She Still Comes Around (to Love What's Left of Me)" and "She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye," as well as two tracks with lead vocals from Lewis' sister, Linda Gail Lewis.

But as the third disc shows, once a Killer, always a Killer. Five outtakes from the show that comprised By Request and 10 never-before-released cuts from the Las Vegas set prove that Lewis' rockabilly spirit was never in full recession. Those 1970 renditions of "Stagger Lee" and Lewis' own standards "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire" are as potent then as they are now.

Augmented with an expansive booklet featuring rare photos and liner notes by Mitchell Cohen and housed in a standard CD-sized digipak,  (based on the price point, it's likely an oversize book in the vein of Select's Temptations and Supremes singles sets), The Killer Live! looks to live up to its name and then some - and it's yours to order after the jump.

Jerry Lee Lewis, The Killer Live! 1964-1970 (Hip-o Select/Mercury B0016749-02, 2012)

Disc 1: "Live" at the Star Club, Hamburg and The Greatest Live Show on Earth 

1. Mean Woman Blues
2. High School Confidential
3. Money
4. Matchbox
5. What'd I Say
6. Great Balls of Fire
7. Good Golly Miss Molly
8. Lewis Boogie
9. Your Cheatin' Heart
10. Hound Dog
11. Long Tall Sally
12. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
13. Down the Line
14. Jenny Jenny
15. Who Will the Next Fool Be
16. Memphis
17. Hound Dog
18. Mean Woman Blues
19. High Heel Sneakers
20. No Particular Place to Go
21. Together Again
22. Long Tall Sally
23. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Tracks 1-13 recorded live at the Star Club, Hamburg, Germany - 4/5/1964. Tracks 1-12 released as Philips LP SBL-7646 (U.K.)/Philips LP 842 945 (DE), 1964. Track 13 was a bonus track on vinyl reissue - Bear Family BAF 18006 (DE), 2010.
Tracks 14-23 recorded live at Municipal Auditorium, Birmingham, Alabama - 7/1/1964. Released as Smash LP SRS-67056, 1964

Disc 2: By Request: More of the Greatest Live Show on Earth and Live at the International, Las Vegas 

1. Introduction
2. Little Queenie
3. How's My Ex Treating You
4. Johnny B. Goode
5. Green Green Grass of Home
6. What'd I Say Part 2
7. You Win Again
8. I'll Sail My Ship Alone
9. Cryin' Time
10. Money
11. Roll Over Beethoven
12. She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye
13. Jambalaya
14. She Still Comes Around (to Love What's Left of Me)
15. Drinkin' Champagne
16. San Antonio Rose
17. Once More with Feeling
18. Band Introductions
19. When You Were a Tulip (Duet with Linda Gail Lewis)
20. Take These Chains from My Heart (Lead Vocal: Linda Gail Lewis)
21. The Ballad of Forty Dollars
22. Flip, Flop and Fly

Tracks 1-11 recorded live at Panther Hall, Fort Worth, Texas - 8/20/1966. Released as Smash LP 67086, 1966.
Tracks 12-22 recorded live at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada - 5/29 and 5/30/1970. Released as Mercury LP SR-61278, 1970.

Disc 3: Live Outtakes

1. Blue Suede Shoes
2. Crazy Arms
3. Lovin' Up a Storm
4. Mean Woman Blues
5. What'd I Say Parts 1 & 2
6. Down the Line/I'm Movin' On (Duet with Linda Gail Lewis)
7. Shoeshine Man
8. Invitation to Your Party
9. San Antonio Rose
10. Homecoming
11. Once More with Feeling
12. Stagger Lee
13. Got You on My Mind Again (Duet with Linda Gail Lewis)
14. Great Balls of Fire
15. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Tracks 1-5 recorded live at Panther Hall, Fort Worth, Texas - 8/20/1966.
Tracks 6-15 recorded live at The International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada - 5/29 and 5/30/1970. Previously unreleased.