Pre-order Alex Chilton’s – Free Again: The “1970″ Sessions

Available January 10, 2012 from Omnivore Recordings or where fine records are sold!

Chilton’s first post-Box Tops and pre-Big Star recordings.
Available on CD, Digital LP or Vinyl LP (first 1,500 pressed on clear vinyl).

OMNIVORE EXCLUSIVE: Available only from our web store and limited to 500 copies includes the clear vinyl LP + bonus 7″ single! see below for more info.

Click here for a first listen to the track “The EMI Song (Smile For Me)” (Original Mono Mix).

In the latter months of 1969, somewhere between the moon landing and the start of the Vietnam draft, the concerts at Woodstock and Altamont, Alex Chilton decided to take back his life. During that annus mirabilis, while the world experienced a generationally sparked social, political, and cultural upheaval, the 18-year-old Chilton was in the midst of a revolution of his own.

For the past year, Chilton had been strapped in a creative, professional, and personal straitjacket. He was the lead singer of a million-selling band, The Box Tops, but felt like little more than a puppet of the group’s producers. In the era of free love, he’d been pressured into a shotgun marriage and fatherhood. And he’d ultimately come to see himself as the pawn of an unscrupulous business machine, sent to grind it out on the road in a series of silly lip-synched TV performances and one-night stands while someone else cashed his checks. As he entered the studio that summer to make his first solo recordings, the man who would come to define the very spirit of musical independence was still bound in chains. At a time where liberation and self-expression were rallying cries, Alex Chilton was about to break free.

CD & DIGITAL LP TRACK LIST:

1. FREE AGAIN (Original Mono Mix)
2. COME ON HONEY
3. SOMETHING DEEP INSIDE
4. I CAN DIG IT
5. THE EMI SONG (SMILE FOR ME)
6. ALL I REALLY WANT IS MONEY
7. THE HAPPY SONG
8. JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH
9. EVERY DAY AS WE GROW CLOSER /
FUNKY NATIONAL
10. I WISH I COULD MEET ELVIS
11. JUST TO SEE YOU
12. ALL WE EVER GOT FROM THEM WAS PAIN*
13. SUGAR, SUGAR / I GOT THE FEELIN’
14. FREE AGAIN (Stereo Mix with Alternate Vocal)*
15. EVERY DAY AS WE GROW CLOSER
(Original Mono Mix)
16. COME ON HONEY (Original Mono Mix)*
17. THE EMI SONG (SMILE FOR ME)
(Original Mono Mix)
18. ALL I REALLY WANT IS MONEY
(Original Mono Mix)
19. IF YOU WOULD MARRY ME BABE (Demo)*
20. IT ISN’T ALWAYS THAT EASY (Demo)*

* previously unissued

LP TRACK LIST:

Side 1:
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 2:
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*

* previously unissued

EXCLUSIVE LP + 7″ BUNDLE:
Be one of the first 500 to order the special
bundle and you’ll get the clear vinyl LP with
a bonus picture sleeve 7″ 45.

7″ TRACK LIST: