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Alex Chilton covers Porter Wagoner's but doesn't get it right.
Or does he?
This is one of the startling songs in the country music catalog.
Alex goes overboard with the histrionics.
The vid is Porter Wagoner and Marty Stuart and they come nowhere close to the claustrophobic, edge of panic feel of the original... MORE
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Another song from a prolific but little known artist who has been active since the mid-sixties when he headed the BoxTops.This is from his solo work in early seventies.
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Alex Chilton's rise to fame as the 16 year old lead singer for the Boxtops, and subsequent battles with the twin demons of fame and self-destruction is an often told story. The musical detritus of these battles provide facinating and often frustrating listening.
Like Flies on Sherbert could not have been recorded, and certainly never released by, anyone but Alex. Self-indulgent lo-fi caveman psychedelia with a charm that's at once unmistakeable and undetectabl... MORE
