{"product_id":"alex-chilton-set","title":"Alex Chilton - Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAvailable to buy \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003ein-store\u003c\/span\u003e from \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e8am\u003c\/span\u003e on \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eSaturday\u003c\/span\u003e, 12\/04\/2025 (Record Store Day).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRemaining copies will be available to buy \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eonline\u003c\/span\u003e from \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e8pm\u003c\/span\u003e on \u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003eMonday \u003c\/span\u003e14\/04\/2025.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst time available on vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLimited Edition of 1500 on Burning Memphis Sun vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes some of Chilton's most popular songs: Oogum Boogum, Never Found a Girl \u0026amp; Lipstick Traces\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Chilton and Big Star fans will welcome this rare recording\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn February 1999, the often-elusive Alex Chilton was in New York City for a couple of gigs at the late, great East Village dive Coney Island High, with bassist Ron Easley and drummer Richard Dworkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trio had enough of a groove on playing mostly vintage soul tunes that they went into a Manhattan recording studio and kept the music rolling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a single night, they cut 19 cover tunes, and Alex produced the session himself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat sort of approach was common in the studios of Memphis, Tennessee and Muscle Shoals, Alabama during the classic era of the sixties soul, though this think-on-your-feet, overdub-free style is an anomaly today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Memphis born-and-bred Alex, that's the way he always liked it\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn February last year, Alex Chilton was in New York City for a couple of gigs at the late, great East Village dive Coney Island High, with bassist Ron Easley and drummer Richard Dworkin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe trio had enough of a groove on playing mostly vintage soul tunes that they went into a Manhattan recording studio, Sear Sound, and kept the music rolling\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a single night, they cut 19 cover tunes, and Alex produced the session himself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat sort of approach was common in the studios of Memphis, Tennessee and Muscle Shoals, Alabama during the classic era of the sixties soul, though this think-on-your-feet, overdub-free style is an anomaly today\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Memphis born-and-bred Alex, that's the way he always liked it. • Alex and his cohorts had a list of songs for Set, based on what they'd been cooking up on stage, but, as Alex put it, \"we thought of a few more once we got there.\" • As he recently explained to a British reporter, \"I had probably ten or twelve in mind when we went into the studio\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the evening wore on, band members would suggest tunes to do, and we'd do them\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI think we only did more than one take of two or three of the songs we did, and I don't think we used any second takes on the album\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are all different approaches to do things\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the years, I have come to think spontaneity and doing things live as much as possible is worth something\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomehow, when you layer things by overdubbing them, that seems to lose an element of spontaneity and live that's very important.\" • The material on Set ranges from the modern to the classic, the playful to the sexy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt stays in an R\u0026amp;B groove, save for a trio of jazzy numbers (\"April In Paris,\" \"There Will Never Be Another You,\" \"Shiny Stockings\") and a country tune from the even more elusive Gary Stewart (\"Single Again\") What links the lineup is that all these tuners are part of Alex's personal hit parade\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I know a few scholars of old R\u0026amp;B,\" he explains, \"they play things for me to get me going\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlus I remember things from my teenage years, stuff that was even obscure then.\" • Growing up in Memphis, Alex would listen to deejay George Klein on WHBO-AM, would sign off each night with Jesse Blevin's \"Goodnight My Love\" –which reappears here as Alex's send-off to Set\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lipstick Traces,\" written by Allen Toussaint but published under his mother's name, is another youthful fave\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut other cuts, like the Randy \"You've Got a Booger Bear Under There,\" are fresh off the car radio—if you happen to be driving around the Deep South, that is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BAR\/NONE RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"RSD 2025 Black Vinyl","offer_id":53206331130183,"sku":"TRI-60526","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/214776bb25f428bd7ce8bdae60b88f4f.jpg?v=1769370447","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/alex-chilton-set","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}