| Horn Crown Label (and others -- musical bed) UI - Unlike Remixes Vol. 1 - Lunamoth, 1996 |
| Spring Rain the GO-BETWEENS - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express - Beggars Banquet, 1986 |
| Killing Dave the MONOCHROME SET - Jack - Cherry Red, 1991 |
| Stay, Dave BOX ELDERS - Alice and Friends - Goner, 2009 |
| Rebel (Toy Love cover) the CHECKS - V.A.: Stroke - Songs of Chris Knox - Merge, 2010 
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| Pop is Falling Apart the SOCIAL ICONS - I'm There, You're Here - The Beautiful Music, 2010 
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| Confiance the PAINTED WORD - Not Yet Saved - Vollwert, 2009 |
| Alex Chilton died in New Orleans earlier this week, of an apparent heart attack at 59. His musical career spanned from mid-60's as a teenager in the Box Tops to playing in the revamped Big Star, a band whose heyday, albeit purely critical and seminal, was the 70's. His solo career was inconsistent thereafter, with flashes of briliance, but equal or greater parts personal difficulties or difficult personality leading to a sharp decline in creativity and focus... which didn't prevent lots of cool musicians from working with him as a producer or guitarist... someone whose earlier work still interests and entertains me... worth further research or listening for anyone unfamiliar with him -- if not in the artist then at least for his quintessential act as a true "cult figure"... |
| When My Baby's Beside Me BIG STAR - # 1 Record - Ardent, 1972 |
| You Get What You Deserve BIG STAR - Radio CIty - Ardent, 1974 |
| Blue Moon BIG STAR - Third/Sister Lovers - PVC, 1978 |
| Hook or Crook ALEX CHILTON - Like Fles on Sherbet - Aura, 1979 |
| No More the Moon Shines on Lorena (Carter Family cover) ALEX CHILTON - Live in London - Aura, 1980 |
| Paradise ALEX CHILTON - Feudalist Tarts - Bigtime, 1985 |
| Underclass ALEX CHILTON - 12-inch B-side - New Rose, 1986 |
| Dalai Lama ALEX CHILTON - High Priest - New Rose, 1987 |
| Let Your Daddy Ride the GORIES - I Know You Fine But How You Doin'? - New Rose, 1990 |
| Gene and Eddie (Billy Lee Riley cover) the STRAY CATS - the Best Of - EMI, 1990 |
| The Billy Lee Riley, Kenni Huskey and Caroline Herring tracks are included in The Oxford American magazine's 11th annual Southern Music edition -- a collection of 52 amazing songs on two CDs, with every single track accompanied by a bio/essay... no longer in general circulation but so good its worth contacting the publication directly to try and get a hold of one... |
| Baby Please Don't Go BILLY LEE RILEY and the LITTLE GREEN MEN - 7-inch - Sun, 1958 |
| Let's Have a Party (Jesse Mae Robinson cover) LOU ANN BARTON - Read My Lips - Antone's, 1989 |
| Wild Man Tamer KENNI HUSKEY - 7-inch B-side - 1966 |
| Sexy Music (instrumental version - CD re-issue bonus track) MEAT PUPPETS - Huevos - SST, 1987 |
| Satisfied Mind (Red Hayes/Jack Rhodes) JOHNNY CASH - American Music VI - American Recordings, 2010
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| The Dozens CAROLINE HERRING - Golden Apples of the Sun - Signature SOunds Recording, 2009 |
| '81 JOANNA NEWSOM - Have One On Me - Drag CIty, 2010
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| Black Water WOLF PEOPLE - Tidings - Jagjaguwar. 2010
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| Fire Power THESE NEW PURITANS - Hidden - Domino, 2010
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| Shake It SUPPOSITORIES - Moments of Square Violence - Independent, 2008
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| Human Torch PORECELAIN FORHEAD - Right Now the World Needs a Clear Head 7-inch - Corpus Callosum, 1983 |
| I Dig You BOSS HOG - Boss Hog - Geffen, 1996 |
| Smokin' to the Big "M" HANSON (Junior Hanson) - Now Hear This - Manticore, 1973 |
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