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Open share drawer This live set captures the former Big Star frontman for a 1999 one-off in Memphis, where he serves up a feast of soul-music staples backed by the city’s legendary Hi Rhythm Section. You could call Boogie Shoes a homecoming of sorts. A native son of Memphis, Alex Chilton adopted New Orleans as his new home in 1982—with typically perverse logic, the Big Star leader headed to the famously decadent city to get sober, a gambit that paid off—but his connection to the birthplace of rock’n’soul remained strong. When Memphis promoter David Less summoned him in the fall of 1999 to play Fredstock, a charity show for the ailing Fred Ford, a Memphis musical fixture who co-founded the Beale Street Music Festival in 1977, Chilton heeded the call, albeit reluctantly.

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