This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. • Available to buy in-store from 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). • Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 14/04/2025.First time available on vinylLimited Edition of 1500 on Burning Memphis Sun vinylIncludes some of Chilton's most popular songs: Oogum Boogum, Never Found a Girl & Lipstick TracesAlex Chilton and Big Star fans will welcome this rare recordingIn 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 DworkinThe trio had enough of a groove on playing mostly vintage soul tunes that they went into a Manhattan recording studio and kept the music rollingIn a single night, they cut 19 cover tunes, and Alex produced the session himselfThat 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 todayFor the Memphis born-and-bred Alex, that's the way he always liked itIn February last year, 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 DworkinThe trio had enough of a groove on playing mostly vintage soul tunes that they went into a Manhattan recording studio, Sear Sound, and kept the music rollingIn a single night, they cut 19 cover tunes, and Alex produced the session himselfThat 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 todayFor the Memphis born-and-bred Alex, that's the way he always liked it. • Alex and his cohorts had a list of songs for Set, based on what they'd been cooking up on stage, but, as Alex put it, "we thought of a few more once we got there." • As he recently explained to a British reporter, "I had probably ten or twelve in mind when we went into the studioAs the evening wore on, band members would suggest tunes to do, and we'd do themI think we only did more than one take of two or three of the songs we did, and I don't think we used any second takes on the albumThere are all different approaches to do thingsOver the years, I have come to think spontaneity and doing things live as much as possible is worth somethingSomehow, when you layer things by overdubbing them, that seems to lose an element of spontaneity and live that's very important." • The material on Set ranges from the modern to the classic, the playful to the sexyIt stays in an R&B groove, save for a trio of jazzy numbers ("April In Paris," "There Will Never Be Another You," "Shiny Stockings") and a country tune from the even more elusive Gary Stewart ("Single Again") What links the lineup is that all these tuners are part of Alex's personal hit parade"I know a few scholars of old R&B," he explains, "they play things for me to get me goingPlus I remember things from my teenage years, stuff that was even obscure then." • Growing up in Memphis, Alex would listen to deejay George Klein on WHBO-AM, would sign off each night with Jesse Blevin's "Goodnight My Love" –which reappears here as Alex's send-off to Set"Lipstick Traces," written by Allen Toussaint but published under his mother's name, is another youthful faveBut other cuts, like the Randy "You've Got a Booger Bear Under There," are fresh off the car radio—if you happen to be driving around the Deep South, that is.
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