Third

Product Description:

Big Star: Alex Chilton (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Jody Stephens (drums).

Additional personnel: Lesa Aldridge (vocals); Lee Baker, Steve Cropper (guitar); Carl Marsh (reeds, woodwinds, synthesizer); Jim Dickinson (mellotron, bass, drums); John Lightman, Jimmy Stephens, Tommy Cathey, William Murphey, Tommy McClure (bass); Richard Roseborough, Tarp Tarrant (drums).

Engineers include: Jim Dickinson, John Fry, Richard Roseborough.

Recorded at Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Rick Clark.

Big Stars's third album, THIRD (also known as SISTER LOVERS) was recorded in 1974 but not released until 1978 and was never widely available. Two bonus tracks have been added.

Big Star: Alex Chilton (vocals, guitar); Jody Stephens (vocals, drums).

Additional personnel: Lesa Aldridge (vocals); Jim Dickinson (various instruments); Lee Baker, Steve Cooper (guitar); Noel Gilbert (violin); Carl Marsh (strings); William Eggleston (piano); Tommy Cathey, William Murphey, Jimmy Stephens, Tommy McClure (bass guitar); Tarp Tarrant (drums).

Recording information: Ardent Studios, Memphis, Tennessee (1975).

After Big Star released RADIO CITY, they fell apart, leaving Alex Chilton to record in 1975 what was later released as THIRD (AKA SISTER LOVERS). The album is strikingly different from everything Chilton has done before or since. With pained outpourings such as the haunting "Holocaust," it holds its own against rock's greatest monuments to existential angst, from TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT to BRYTER LATER. It also ranks alongside the Beach Boys' SMILE as perhaps the only "classic" album with no set sequence. Chilton never bothered to sequence it because, upon its completion, no label wanted to release it. It finally came out four years later, and since then, while it has appeared on several labels, no two have used the same track order.