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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

“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 […]

She Don’t Do Drugs, But She Does The Pill (The Concept)

Posted by Lance Davis - July 28, 2009 - Big Star, Teenage Fanclub

In the “Best First Songs on an Album” discussion, I’m making a Top 5 case for “The Concept.” Teenage Fanclub‘s kick start to Bandwagonesque (1991) is fangasmic for many reasons (see below), but it’s on the leadoff short list because who has the balls to begin an album with a 6 minute guitar epic?!?! Conventional […]