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...
**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
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...
As others have noted, this isn't one of Alex Chilton's masterpieces, yet it's a terrifically listenable album that bridges between his more straight-jacketed work with the Box Tops and the freedom of expression found with Big Star. Chilton can be heard indulging his affection for Memphis blues and soul on several tracks, stripped of his former group's AM-radio sweetening. Produced and engineere...
My friend sent me this video of her dad and his brother hanging out and singing "Lies", the song that her uncle wrote and Alex Chilton recorded. It's short, but a pretty great video.