A fairly young Jimmy (no date can be found, but I’m guessing it’s got to be near 1960) is sitting at the piano, on a little raised stage protected by a tacky wrought iron railing, no doubt in a church.
Wait, someone already did.) They all have pretty good covers, too, but maybe I managed to hang onto this one because it’s just the best. (Maybe I should start a record label called Randy. I think all or most of his records are on JIM records, one of my favorite label names. I lost all mine-in the move, the flood, the bankruptcy. This is not meant, at least in this context, to be an indictment-I’m just saying there’s some hot music on Swaggart albums, and there’s a lot of them. Good and Evil, or “two sides of the same coin?”-I say the latter. This record’s official title is: “I’ve Got Nothing To Lose Featuring Jimmy Swaggart and His Golden Gospel Piano.” On a lot of these songs it sounds like Brother Jimmy is barely reigning it in, about one shot of rye away from transforming into his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, right before our eyes. It’s solid gospel music with-as I hear it-an interesting edge. I used to have a lot of Jimmy Swaggart albums, believe it or else, because they were easy to find at the thrift-store, and I can listen to them.