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'Wild! Wild! Wild!' Coheres As A Carefully Conceived Lark

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Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Linda Gail Lewis is the younger sister of rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis. And like her brother, she's been performing since the 1950s. Robbie Fulks is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter who's recorded a lot of idiosyncratic country music. Now, they've teamed up to record their first album together on an album called "Wild! Wild! Wild!" Rock critic Ken Tucker has a review. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "WILD! WILD! WILD!") ROBBIE FULKS: (Singing) Back when this land was a jungle, that's when it was my home. I had a lion's blood. All I wanted was to ravage and to roam. Once you crossed paths with this stray cat, we was ripping it up in style. We were fast and free, weren't we? Wild, wild, wild. KEN TUCKER, BYLINE: Pounding and propulsive, the title track of "Wild! Wild! Wild!" sets the tone for this unusual album. It's a throwback to the earliest era of rock 'n' roll. But it's not pickled in

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