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Ben Vaughn said it best: "If heartbreak had a sound, it was this voice." Arthur Alexander waxed terrific Muscle Shoals inspiring soul hits in the early '60s, was covered by The Stones and The Beatles (the pathos of John Lennon's "Anna" wasn't as devastating as Alexander's original, but still...), and faded away in the '70s. His return, spurred by Vaughn, was the triumphant "Lonely Just Like Me," which garnered new accolades, interviews and concert appearances. Sadly (thou... MORE
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I'd bet a lot that more Moggers have heard the Beatles' version than have heard the original.
Arthur Alexander imbues the lyric with a bathos that's beyond Lennon.
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By the time Arthur Alexander cut this comeback release in 1993 he'd been out of the limelight for nearly 15 years. Thirty years earlier he'd authored songs that stoked the imaginations of The Beatles ("Anna"), Rolling Stones ("You Better Move On") and others. Better yet, his southern soul recording of the latter was the first song ever waxed at the legendary Muscle Shoals studio. His seminal early sides were followed by terrific outings for Monument and Warner Brothers thr... MORE
