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Free Again: The 1970 Sessions

Alex Chilton

SKU: OVLP13

Barcode: 816651014033

26.00 £26.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Omnivore
  • Released Date: 11th August 2023
  • Buying Format:
    1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code
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In 1969, Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of the chart-topping Box Tops entered Ardent Studios in Memphis to make an album. He was a couple of years away from forming Big Star, but these, his first solo recordings – eventually released in the 1990s as “1970” – display the same skills and idiosyncrasies that would characterise his career right up until his untimely death in 2010.

The album, originally slated for either the Atlantic label or the Beach Boys’ Brother Records, features a diverse range of mostly original material by Chilton, including the commercial ‘Free Again’, the proto-Big Star sound of ‘Something Deep Inside,’ and the sublime ballads ‘Every Day As We Grow Closer’ and ‘The EMI Song’.

Big Beat’s new expanded edition of “1970” features both unreleased period mono mixes, and fresh remixes done at Ardent Studios, and it also adds three previously unissued songs including the fragile outtake ‘All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain’.

In-depth sleeve notes by Alec Palao and previously unseen photos help in the reappraisal of this underrated pop-rock gem.

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Track Listings

Side One
1. Free Again (Original Mono Mix)
2. I Can Dig It
3. Something Deep Inside
4. Just To See You
5. The EMI Song (Smile For Me)
6. All I Really Want Is Money

Side Two
1. Come On Honey
2. I Wish I Could Meet Elvis
3. Every Day As We Grow Closer / Funky National
4. The Happy Song
5. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
6. All We Ever Got From Them Was Pain

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