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Love Has Found Me Somehow

Posted by Lance Davis - April 12, 2015 - ? And The Mysterians, Alex Chilton, Baptist Generals, Beatles, Blasters, Bob's Burgers, Bobby Jealousy, Centro-Matic, Dave Alvin, David Bowie, Doug Sahm, Figgs, Glossary, Gram Parsons, Har Mar Superstar, Johnny Thunders, Lydia Loveless, Maria McKee, Mike Nicolai, Muffs, New York Dolls, Queen, Reigning Sound, Sam Cooke
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  On March 26, I, Lance Davis, joined Sarah Espinoza in matrimony. It was a lovely, understated ceremony at the Urban Light installation in front of LACMA (LA County Museum of Art). Urban Light was one of the first places Sarah and I went to on a date because it features 200 street lamps from […]

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Like Burning Fire Shut Up In My Bones

Posted by Lance Davis - July 5, 2010 - Alex Chilton, Bernadette Carroll, Big Star, Booker T, Chips Moman, Dan Penn, Eddie Floyd, Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, Spooner Oldham, Stax, Teenage Fanclub
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  “His word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones/And I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay.” –Jeremiah, droppin’ lyrical science in King James 20:9 Today we connect the dots between Alex Chilton and a few of his southern contemporaries in the late ’60s and early […]

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Chilton’s Missing Years

Posted by Lance Davis - April 18, 2010 - Alabama, Alex Chilton
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Alex Chilton fans are probably familiar with these stories, but I wanted to collect them in one place. They address what I call his “missing years,” a 20-year span bookended by Big Star‘s dissolution in the mid-’70s and their re-emergence as indie gods in the mid-’90s. Those two decades are critical in understanding Chilton’s iconoclasm, […]

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The Flags are Half-Mast in Radio City

Posted by Lance Davis - April 1, 2010 - Alex Chilton, Big Star, Bill Fox
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http://youtu.be/sTSJYZyouek&w=560 Replacements – “Alex Chilton” Pleased To Meet Me 1987 The reaction to Alex Chilton‘s passing has been surprising in its intensity. I think it’s fair to say that it hit fans much harder than anticipated. One perverse upside — and it really has been positive — has been the impressive number of high-quality remembrances. […]

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December Boys Got It Bad

Posted by Lance Davis - March 21, 2010 - Alex Chilton, Big Star, Elliott Smith, Grand Champeen, Paul Westerberg, Replacements
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“Without my friends I got chaos I’m off in a bead of light Without my friends I’d be swept up high by the wind.” –Big Star, “Thank You Friends”   Congressman Steve Cohen Commemorates Alex Chilton http://youtu.be/H9LGwzGnx5w&w=560 It’s been a rough several months for Memphis. In a span of 7 months, the city lost Jim […]

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