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Artist | Alex Chilton
Title | Free Again: The 1970 Sessions
Genre | Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 69:59
Label | Big Beat Records Store | 2012
Catalog | CDWIKD 302 Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 216 kbps Size | 114.32 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Free Again (Original Mono Mix) 2:38
02. Come On Honey 3:34
03. Something Deep Inside 2:41
04. I Can Dig It 3:49
05. The EMI Song (Smile For Me) 4:02
06. All I Really Want Is Money 4:56
07. The Happy Song 2:05
08. Jumpin' Jack Flash 4:07
09. Every Day As We Grow Closer / Funky National 3:16
10. I Wish I Could Meet Elvis 3:16
11. Just To See You 3:50
12. All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain (Previously Unissued) 3:23
13. Sugar, Sugar / I Got The Feelin' 6:20
14. Free Again (Stereo Remix With Alternate Vocal) (Previously 2:58
Unissued)
15. Every Day As We Grow Closer (Original Mono Mix) 2:27
16. Come On Honey (Original Mono Mix) (Previously Unissued) 3:34
17. The EMI Song (Smile For Me) (Original Mono Mix) 3:58
18. All I Really Want Is Money (Original Mono Mix) (Previously 4:44
Unissued)
19. If You Would Marry Me Babe (Demo) (Previously Unissued) 1:49
20. It Isn't Always That Easy (Demo) (Previously Unissued) 2:32
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────┤ Notes ├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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In a business that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton thrived for
four decades with a three-fold career - his early recordings with the Box
Tops, the albums he did with Big Star in the mid-'70s and after the group
re-formed with a new lineup in 1993, and the spate of cool but chaotic solo
albums he recorded beginning in the late '70s. To some, he was a classic
hitmaker from the '60s. To others, he was a genius British-style pop
musician and songwriter. To yet another audience, he was a doomed and
despairing artist who spent several years battling the bottle and
delivering anarchistic records and performances while thumbing his nose at
all pretenses of stardom, a quirky iconoclast whose influence spawned the
likes of the Replacements and Teenage Fanclub.
Alex Chilton fronted the Box Tops but he never led them. He was a hired
hand, picked for his preternaturally soulful voice but, like any
red-blooded American teen, he soon bristled against the constraints on his
freedom. Chips Moman and Dan Penn masterminded the Box Tops, rarely letting
Chilton record his own material, so he did what any rebellious adolescent
would do: he sneaked around, cutting material at the fledging Ardent
Studios without the knowledge of American Studios, who owned the rights to
Chilton's recordings.
These contractual issues meant that the recordings Alex made at Ardent in
1969 with Terry Manning were still called '1970'" when Ardent released them
on CD in 1996 - it was the year Chilton was released from his American
contract - but this tremendous 2012 reissue adds a more poetic title in
"Free Again". It's a title that accurately reflects Chilton's frame of
mind: he was breaking free of the constraints of the Box Tops, finding his
voice as a songwriter and musician, leaving behind the strict blue-eyed
soul of his first band without quite ditching soul.
He hasn't left behind the light, Baroque psychedelia that marked some of
the latter-day Box Tops LPs, either - there's a distinctly British
undercurrent to the sweeter pop tunes here - but there are also hints of
country and loose-limbed, dirty rock & roll, particularly in a wildly
inventive cover of "Jumpin Jack Flash" that slows down the groove and turns
Keith Richards' riff inside out. In that sense, the music on "Free Again"
is just as much a bridge between the Box Tops and Big Star - something
that's quite clear on the more delicate moments here - as it is an
indication of what he would do after Big Star.
Much of this points the way toward the willful, ornery vibe of Like Flies
on Sherbert, or the casual R&B crooner of the '80s and beyond, but in 1969,
Alex has yet to prize contrariness over craft: he is still writing with
passion and, with Manning and the Ardent renegades figuring out just what
they could do in the studio, this crackles with invention and spirit. Sure,
it's messy, but Alex Chilton always was - it's also some of his richest and
best music, and it's never sounded better than it does on "Free Again: The
1970 Sessions".
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