Clean Slate

Album: A Wasteland Companion (2012)
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  • American singer-songwriter and guitarist M. Ward opens A Wasteland Companion with this tribute to Alex Chilton, the lead singer of Big Star, who died in 2010. Ward told UK newspaper The Sun: "The song took about a month and, right in the middle of the month, he passed away, so that changed the way I approached his song."

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