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, released in 1995. The album consisted of six songs written by Chilton, and six

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" single. "It's Your Funeral" is based on Frédéric Chopin's ''marche funèbre'' which became the 3rd movement of his Piano Sonata No. 2.

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employed a pianist named William "Destruction" Johnson in the late 1940s, and Chilton's title is a reference to him as well as a play on both the title of the Western film '' A Man Called Horse'' and the

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song " A Girl Called Destruction".

Track listing

#"Sick and Tired" ( Chris Kenner) – 3:04 #"Devil Girl" (Alex Chilton) – 2:55 #"Lies" (Keith Keller) – 4:01 #"It's Your Funeral" (Chilton, Jim Spake) – 1:29 #"What's Your Sign Girl" (Daniel Pearson, Anthony Sepe) – 4:37 #"Il Ribelle" ( Adriano Celentano) – 2:14 #"You Don't Have to Go" (

Jimmy Reed Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. His particular style of electric blues was popular with blues as well as non-blues audiences. Reed's songs such as "Honest I Do" (1957), " ...

) – 4:26 #"Boplexity" (Chilton) – 2:56 #"The New Girl in School" ( Brian Wilson, Bob Norberg, Roger Christian,

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) – 2:10 #"You're Lookin' Good" (Chilton) – 2:54 #"Don't Know Anymore" (Chilton) – 3:28 #"Don't Stop" (Chilton) – 2:46

Personnel

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, harmonica on track 7 *Ron Easley –

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on tracks 1–6, 8–12, guitar on track 7, backing vocals on tracks 5–6, 9 & 12 *Doug Garrison – drums on tracks 1–6, 10–11 *Richard Dworkin – drums on tracks 7–9, 12 *Bob Marbach – organ on tracks 2–3, 10–12 *

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– organ on tracks 1–4, 10–11 * Charles Hodges – organ on track 8 *Jim Spake – horn arrangements,

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on tracks 1–4, 10–11 *Fred Ford – baritone saxophone on tracks 1–4, 10–11 *Nokie Taylor –

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on tracks 1–4, 10–11 *The Jackies – backing vocals on track 3 *Recorded at Ardent Studios,

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*Recorded and mixed by Jeff Powell *Additional engineering by Jeffrey Reed *Assisted by Erik Flettrich and Mike Kennedy *Mastered by Larry Nix *Sleeve design by Jeff Kratschmer *Art direction by Claire Boger *Photography by Paula Burch

References

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