LABEL: Omnivore
CAT NO: OVLP420
BARCODE:816651019922
Tracklisting:
- BOOGIE SHOES
- PRECIOUS, PRECIOUS
- 634-5789
- KANSAS CITY
- LUCILLE
- BIG BOSS MAN
- WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO
- MAYBELLINE
- HELLO JOSEPHINE
- TRYING TO LIVE MY LIFE WITHOUT YOU
ALEX CHILTON AND HI RHYTHM SECTION
– Boogie Shoes: Live On Beale Street
LP – Black Vinyl
Memphis is a city with music in its blood. When Fred Ford, co-founder of the Beale Street Music Festival, was diagnosed with cancer, David Less organized Fredstock, a fund raiser to help with his medical bills. Less contacted Memphis legend Alex Chilton (The Box Tops, Big Star), who was living in New Orleans, to ask him to participate. Alex said he didn’t have any musicians to play with in Memphis, so Less suggested the Hi Rhythm Section (the band behind classics from artists including Ann Peebles, Ike & Tina Turner, O. V. Wright, Otis Clay, and Al Green). Alex replied, “That will work.”
This previously unissued live set contains versions of soul classics from The Supremes and Otis Clay, rock numbers from Chuck Berry and Little Richard, and even a cover of the KC & The Sunshine Band title track. Boogie Shoes: Live On Beale Street was recorded at the New Daisy Theater in Memphis in 1999, during Fredstock. Packaging contains liner notes from Producer David Less, a friend of Chilton, and author of the acclaimed Memphis Mayhem: A Story Of The Music That Shook Up The World, and features a cover from rock & roll and folk art painter, Lamar Sorrento.