[2019-01-25] Big Star "Live On WLIR" (Omnivore)

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:24 pm

Description
Remastered and restored performance originally recorded and broadcast in 1974.

Big Star recorded their second album, Radio City, as a trio, after the departure of founding member Chris Bell. When it came time to tour, original bassist Andy Hummel decided to return to school to pursue his engineering education. With this departure, Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens recruited fellow Memphis native John Lightman to take over on bass duties, and the band readied their live set.

That set is on display as Big Star recorded a radio session at Ultrasonic Studios in New York for broadcast on the city’s preeminent WLIR. Nearly two decades later, those recordings were issued as Live in 1992. Omnivore Recordings is proud to reintroduce those recordings, restored and remastered from the original tapes, as Live On WLIR, on CD—and, its first official release on LP.

The 15 track set features material from the band’s two releases, as well as a cover of “Motel Blues” by Loudon Wainwright III (which originally appeared on his classic 1971 sophomore release, Album II).

With new, updated liner notes from Memphis writer/filmmaker, Robert Gordon (who won a Grammy® for his essay in 2010’s Big Star boxed set Keep An Eye On The Sky) and an interview with John Lightman by Chris Bell biographer Rich Tupica (There Was A Light: The Cosmic History Of Big Star Founder Chris Bell), Live On WLIR enters the Big Star canon in the form it deserves. Because, you know, you get what you deserve.

Tracklist
1. September Gurls
2. Way Out West
3. Mod Lang
4. Don’t Lie To Me
5. O My Soul
6. Interview
7. The Ballad Of El Goodo
8. Thirteen
9. I’m In Love With A Girl
10. Motel Blues
11. In The Street
12. You Get What You Deserve
13. Daisy Glaze
14. Back Of A Car
15. She’s A Mover

LP does not include a download card.

CD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JHSKTD7/?tag=imwan-20

Vinyl
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JYQTHQ9/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:27 pm

We began 2018 with a Big Star upgrade, and now we're ending 2018 with another Big Star upgrade. Details to follow.

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Oct 30, 2018 8:56 pm

Full details now grace the first post, and we're waiting for the Amazon pre-order links to go live. Right now Amazon still lists the release for December, but Omnivore's trailer says January:

pobbard · 18 Jun 2007

I'm really curious to see if they'll be able to do anything more with the sound quality than Rykodisc did in 1992.

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:32 pm

Bump: The CD and vinyl pre-order links in the first post have become active, and both now show a release date of January 25th (same as in Omnivore's trailer).

[2019-01-25] Big Star "Live On WLIR" (Omnivore)

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