Arthur Alexander The Final Chapter
05/22/07
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(PR) The only songwriter whose songs were covered by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley was Arthur Alexander. One of the greatest soul singers of all time, if not the best known, he penned “Anna,” “Sally Sue Brown” and “You Better Move On” among many others. The Beatles modeled their early sound after him. Yet by 1980 – a young man, just 40 – Alexander had left the music industry and was driving a bus and working at a center for disadvantaged kids in Cleveland. That’s exactly where the story of Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter – a deluxe package chronicling his improbable, triumphant yet tragically short-lived comeback in the early ‘90s – begins. In one comprehensive 18-track volume, Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter (Hacktone Records, due out 8/21) combines Arthur Alexander’s Ben Vaughn-produced final album for Nonesuch (awarded a rave feature review in Rolling Stone) with previously unreleased material from NPR’s “Fresh Air” in a rare on-air performance, the never-before-heard hotel room demos (including Arthur’s take on Neil Diamond’s “Solitary Man”) and a live version of “Anna” recorded at New York’s Bottom Line. It’s a document of the second half of Alexander’s career. The sound is lovingly restored and remastered as well as re-sequenced to producer Vaughn’s original design. Vaughn’s liner notes provide a intimate and detailed story of the singer’s all-too-brief re-emergence. “If heartbreak had a sound,” he writes, “it was this voice.” Arthur Alexander – Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter Track listing: 1 If It's Really Got To Be This Way 03:59 2 Go Home Girl 03:49 3 Sally Sue Brown 02:41 4 All The Time 03:22 5 Lonely Just Like Me 03:07 6 Every Day I Have To Cry 02:42 7 In The Middle Of It All 03:54 8 Genie In The Jug 02:31 9 Mr. John 03:47 10 Johnny Heartbreak 03:31 11 There Is A Road 04:23 12 I Believe In Miracles 03:38 (1-12 from Lonely Just Like Me, re-ordered by Ban Vaughn) 13 Intro 00:10 14 Go Home Girl 03:44 15 Interview 1 02:51 16 Genie In The Jug 02:13 17 Interview 2 00:36 18 You Better Move On 02:58 19 Interview 3 01:35 20 Every Day I Have To Cry 02:51 (13-20 recorded live on NPR’s “Fresh Air,” May 7, 1993) 21 Solitary Man (Demo) 02:02 22 Johnny Heartbreak 01:45 23 Genie In The Jug (#2) 01:56 24 Lonely Just Like Me 02:41 (21-24 from original cassette of hotel room demos featuring Arthur Alexander, vocals; Ben Vaughn, guitars) 25 Anna 03:19 (#25 recorded live at the Bottom Line in New York during “In Their Own Words: A Bunch of Songwriters Sitting Around Singing,” September 5, 1991) 26 Glory Road (exerpt) 00:48 (#26, hidden track, from hotel room demos)
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