Lew Lewis

Harmonica participant/vocalist Lew Lewis made a single record for Stiff Information in 1979, Conserve the Wail, and a handful of 1979-1980 singles for Stiff, and a youthful one particular for United Performers. Before going single he’d experienced Eddie & the Scorching Rods, though he was kicked out of this significant pub rock-new influx crossover music group after their 1976 debut one, “Writing in the Wall structure”/”Cruisin’ in the Lincoln.” Lewis was an excellent, bluesy Small Walter-influenced harmonica participant, but only a satisfactory, colorless vocalist. His single information are pedestrian interfaces between pub rock and roll and blues-rock, significant and then pub rock and roll and Stiff Information completists. The 2002 Compact disc reissue of Conserve the Wail places the majority of his legacy in a single place with the addition of both Stiff singles (though not really the United Performers one), aswell as live materials from 1977 and 1979. Unfortunately, in 1987 Lewis was sentenced to seven years in jail for supporting a postoffice with a artificial pistol.