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An obsessive crate digger, especially of southern soul music, Alex unearthed and transcribed the music for Claim to Fame, an obscure Frederick Knight track, as well as things made popular by Sam and Dave and Ernie K Doe.\u003ci\u003e Live In Anvers\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded for a music festival in Belgium with a band he had just met, reading the charts he had just written, another classic off the cuff fly by the seat of your pants performance by one of America's greatest music makers. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bar None","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50468362387787,"sku":"2012342","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Alex_Chilton_-_Live_in_Anvers_83247cc7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727347313"},{"product_id":"my-rival","title":"My Rival","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow on 12\" vinyl for the first time. 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In 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. The 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. In a single night, they cut 19 cover tunes, and Alex produced the session himself. That 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. 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