Jerry Lee Lewis & L G Lewis I Know That Jesus Will Be There

Religious beliefs As a teenager, Lewis studied at the Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas before being thrown out for daring to play a boogie-woogie version of “My God Is Real,“ and that early incident foreshadowed his lifelong conflict over his faith to God and his love of playing “the devil’s music.“ Lewis had a recorded argument with Sam Phillips during the recording session for “Great Balls of Fire,“ a song he initially refused to record because he considered it blasphemous (“How can the devil save souls? What are you talkin’ about?“ he asks Phillips during one heated exchange). During the famous “Million Dollar Quartet“ jam involving Lewis, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash, they performed several gospel songs. When he appeared on George Klein’s Memphis Sounds program in 2011, Lewis explained that part of the reason the recording only features him and Elvis singing is because they were of the Assembly of God