Every 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.
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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.