And Jerry Lee Is Jimmy Swaggart’s Cousin

“The most unappreciated fact about the three most galvanizing performers in early rock ‘n’ roll—Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard Penniman—is that they all grew up in the Pentecostal church. Presley and Lewis were raised in the predominately white Assemblies of God, and Penniman in a variety of black Holiness and Church of God sects in his hometown of Macon, Georgia” (Martha Bayles, Hole in our Soul, p. 127).