Click here to play the podcastEvery artist wants to pay tribute to the people who inspired them. No one’s ever done it better than The Replacements’ tribute to Alex Chilton. This song has a great hook and a chorus that stays with you… It’s stayed with me so long that I named this podcast after it.
“Alex Chilton” (Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson & Chris Mars) Copyright 1987 Done To Death Music (ASCAP), Nah Music (ASCAP) and Chris Mars Publishing Inc.
I wonder if the sitar sound at the beginning was a nod to The Box Tops song “Cry Like A Baby” which that song features a sitar sound weaving in and out (of the song).
Could be– good point, Rhett.