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ALBUMVoices of Americana (The Crazy Cajun Recordings)Mickey Gilley
Albums by Mickey Gilley
ALBUMVoices of Americana (The Crazy Cajun Recordings)Mickey Gilley
ALBUMTwo Old CatsTroy Payne & Mickey Gilley
ALBUMHere I Am AgainMickey Gilley
ALBUMI Miss You SoMickey Gilley
ALBUMChoice Country Cuts: Mickey Gilley, Vol. 2Mickey Gilley
ALBUMI Saw the LightMickey Gilley
ALBUMTalk to MeMickey Gilley
ALBUMMake It Like the First TimeMickey Gilley
ALBUMWith Love From Pasadena, TexasMickey Gilley
ALBUMOne and OnlyMickey Gilley
Mickey Gilley's Popular Music Videos
You Don't Know Me
Mickey Gilley
True Love Ways
Mickey Gilley
Fool for Your Love
Mickey Gilley
A Headache Tomorrow (Or a Heartache Tonight)
Mickey Gilley
Don't the Girls Get Prettier At Closing Time
Mickey Gilley
Put Your Dreams Away
Mickey Gilley
Talk to Me
Mickey Gilley
Artist Playlists
Mickey Gilley Essentials
His piano-pounding country fused rock ‘n' roll with soul music.
Artist Biography
A cousin of both Jerry Lee Lewis and the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart, keyboardist/singer Mickey Gilley took several years to discover that his brand of music, while highly derivative of Jerry Lee's, was best suited to the country charts. Gilley's honky-tonk versions of soul classics and country standards made him one of the biggest country stars of the '70s and '80s, and the undisputed star of the "Urban Cowboy" phase of country music. By the late '80s, as Gilley's brand of country went out of style, he branched out into acting, closed down his club Gilley's, and became one of the first country stars to open his own theater in Branson, MO.
Hometown
Natchez, MS, United States
Genre
Country