Linda Gail Lewis comes back to Memphis, and to Hernando's Hide-A-Way, for the first time since 2019

Jerry Lee Lewis's youngest sister plays the Old Hernando Road honky-tonk on Friday, March 5, 2027, with longtime producer Danny B. Harvey on the bill.

Seven years ago tonight, Hernando's Hide-A-Way threw a Halloween party to celebrate opening its doors again. The Memphis Flyer covered the Oct. 31, 2019, reopening. Five days before that, Linda Gail Lewis played what is still her most recent Memphis show, at The Green Room at Crosstown Arts. Next spring she finally plays the honky-tonk.

Linda Gail Lewis plays Hernando's Hide-A-Way on Friday, March 5, 2027. The show starts at 8 p.m. with Danny B. Harvey on the bill, and tickets are $20–$25 through See Tickets. The venue's calendar lists doors at 6 p.m. and also names Annie Marie Lewis, her daughter and frequent collaborator, among the supporting players. The date was announced Oct. 21. That's more than four months out, which is unusually early notice for a 200-capacity room.

If you only know the name, start here: her official site says she was born July 18, 1947, in Ferriday, Louisiana, and she is the youngest sister of Jerry Lee Lewis. She is a singer and pianist in her own right, and she has worked the same territory her brother made famous for her entire career: country, boogie piano and rock 'n' roll played hard.

Her work since that 2019 Memphis show has been steady and close to home. In 2023 she released *A Tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis*, an 18-song set recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis and produced by Harvey with Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom and Annie Marie Lewis, as Glass Onyon PR announced. She followed it in July 2024 with *Rockabilly Queen*, another Harvey production that mixes her originals with reworked classics, released through Cleopatra Records. She has also spoken about her brother's passing (Glass Onyon PR), and these Memphis-rooted records read as a family history told by the person still carrying it on stage.

Harvey's place on the bill isn't filler. He played on *Hard Rockin' Woman* in 2015 and produced both recent records, so he's the closest thing she has to a bandleader. Expect them to share songs during her set.

She has worked the same territory her brother made famous for her entire career.

The room fits the music. Hernando's sits at 3210 Old Hernando Road in Whitehaven, a long way from the Beale Street lights, and Dale Watson reopened it. Two hundred people, a dance floor and a piano player whose last name is Lewis is about as Memphis as a Friday night gets.

Tickets are cheap and the room is small. Buy them before the weather turns and the rest of the spring calendar fills up, then plan to be there when doors open at six.

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