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Big Star’s Jody Stephens Announces #1 Record Tour in Celebration of 50th Anniversary

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Big Star ’s #1 Record , the band’s sole surviving member Jody Stephens has announced a run of US tour dates. At these shows, he’ll perform the album in full with the backing of band that includes R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Wilco’s Pat Sansone, The Posies’ Jon Auer, and Chris Stamey of The dB’s.

“The Don’t Lie to Me! Tour” kicks off November 30th in Athens, Georgia, with further stops scheduled in Memphis, TN; Jersey City, NJ;Ardmore, PA; Washington, DC; and Carrboro, NC. Check out the full schedule below.

Prior to the tour’s launch, Stephens will stage a benefit concert at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California on November 5th, with proceeds benefiting the Autism Healthcare Cooperative. The evening will feature a performance of Big Star’s #1 Record in its entirety, plus other selections from Big Star’s Radio City and Third/Sister Lovers albums. Stephens will be joined by Susanna Hoffs, The Lemon Twigs, Chris Price, and Luther Russell, plus a backing ensemble that includes Mike Mills, Chris Stamey, Jon Auer, Pat Sansone, Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris, Django Haskins, Jeff Crawford, Charles Cleaver, and Audley Freed. Tickets are available here .

“Don’t Lie To Me!” Tour Dates: 11/30 – Athens, GA @ Georgia Theatre 12/03 – Memphis, TN @ Crosstown Arts 12/04 – Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall 12/06 – Ardmore, PA @ Ardmore Music Hall 12/07 – Washington, D.C. @ Union Stage 12/09 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle *

* = The lineup for this show only will consist of Stephens, Auer, Mills, Stamey, joined by Mitch Easter and Brett Harris, plus special guests

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“I never travel too far / Without a little Big Star ,” Paul Westerberg of the Replacements famously once sang, getting children by the millions — or at least hundreds of thousands — to check out an under-appreciated band of the ’70s in the 1980s. If you want to hear Big Star’s music played live, that generally involves traveling very far, in a time machine. But not in Los Angeles tonight, where Jody Stephens , the sole surviving original member, will join up with a cast of estimable singers and musicians to present a full evening of Big Star songs, including a full 50th anniversary run-through of the band’s classic debut album, “#1 Record.”

Tickets are available online here or, if they last until showtime, at the door.

At a rehearsal Friday night at the Alex (a 1920s theater that was not actually rechristened just for this occasion), Stephens and members of the ensemble spoke with Variety about what it means that “#1 Record,” a flop at the time, is being remembered and celebrated a half-century after it seemingly sank into obscurity.

The “#1 Record” tribute will not be strictly limited to L.A. It presages a short tour of a handful of dates that will go down in December, albeit without the orchestra or most of the guest singers. Those coming gigs will just feature a five-piece band, albeit a fairly all-star quintet, consisting of Stephens on drums, Mills on bass and Sansone, Stamey and Auer on guitar.

It may be a little bit ironic that the debut is getting its revival due now, after there was a Wild Honey benefit and subsequent tour in the mid-2010s themed around the swan song “Big Star’s Third,” a much more peculiar, patchwork and subdued album than “#1 Record.” Wouldn’t it have made more sense to celebrate the most commercial and accessible Big Star album first, then get to “Third” later? And yet there is a substantial cult that likes the final album better than the first, precisely because of its darkness and relative weirdness. “Yeah,” says Auer, “but nothing about Big Star’s career has been very predictable, has it, really?”

One of the unexpected developments has been young people taking a liking to Big Star decades after the group came and went like a shooting star. Among them are the band the Lemon Twigs, consisting of two Long Island brothers now in their 20s, whose devotion to Big Star is well known; they had Stephens sit in on their latest album, and used to perform a Chilton solo song in concert when they were first coming to fame as a teenaged phenomenon.

“I heard them for the first time when I was 14 or 15,” says singer Michael D’Adarrio. “My girlfiend at the time was into Big Star, and then they were my favorite band after that. I became Chilton-obsessed.”

“The man is Chilton- deranged ,” corrected his brother, Brian D’Addario.

For Stephens, the respect is mutual. “When the tour comes in December, that’ll be a five-piece thing, so this is kind of a one-off,” he said. “It’s pretty exciting to have the Lemon Twigs, Brian and Michael — there’s a lot of energy there — and Susanna Hoffs. Of course Mike Mills, Pat Sensone, Jon Auer and Chris Stamey are kind of core members. This week we also have Luther Russell, my partner in Those Pretty Wrongs, joining us for some things, and we’re doing a pretty long song (from that current band) called ‘It’s About Love,’ because Chris thought it would be appropriate to share with people in this day and age, which it is. And it’s always just mind-blowing to have strings. I try to play quieter drums when the strings are playing, because I’d rather hear them, you know? It’s a unique experience in having an orchestra that joins us and then we pare down to five people — it’s a pretty dynamic performance.”

Singer-songwriter Chris Price, who sings lead on “When My Baby’s Beside Me” and found himself getting roped in to add harmony vocals on other songs during rehearsals, is a big fan of “#1 Record” as the album that contains most of the “hits” and happens to be more rocking — including “In the Street,” which many years later became the theme song for “That ’70s Show,” via a Cheap Trick cover.

“This is definitely their most polished record, of the three,” Price said of “#1 Record.” “It feels like the title was meant to be ironic or tongue-in-cheek, but it is a very polished record that has a ton of real commercial appeal and has endured for 50 years as a one of those pristine, great records of that era. I know they get associated a lot with sort of inspiring every garage band — like everyone who heard them formed a band. But Big Star was making top-tier-sounding records. I mean, the stuff that came out of Ardent in those days was some of the best sounds that anyone was making, especially on ‘#1 Record.’ But obviously all of their albums are great for different reasons. There’s no need to compare the three when you have them all.”

Auer puts the band’s obscurity in their shoulda-been heyday down to label disinterest or lack of ability to promote. “It’s like the record label is the delivery service,” he said backstage. “You can have this great piece of art and if it doesn’t get delivered properly, then no one’s ever gonna receive it. And it happens to a lot of bands, right? But I think Big Star is a big example — arguably the top example — of the band that should have been more successful but wasn’t. To have that much good stuff be that mismanaged for that long, and look at it now… over time it’s risen because of just the sheer quality of it, I think. I mean, ‘Ballad of El Goodo,’ how could that not have been a hit, or ‘September Gurls’? It’s as good as anything you heard on ‘70s radio, easily. It’s shocking. It wasn’t their fault.

Luther Russell, Stephens’ current musical partner in Those Pretty Wrongs and a participant in this weekend’s show, said he was one of those who got into “Third” before “#1.” “I heard about this band Big Star from being a fan of The Replacements when I was a kid. And I was walking around San Francisco with a buddy, 16 or 17, and I bought some records on the street and one of ’em was ‘Big Star’s Third,’ and that’s the one I started with. I was like, ‘What the fuck?’ That was the first one I had, which is a very strange place to start, but then I worked my way backwards. When I did get ‘#1 Record,’ I was like, ‘Oh! This is, like, Beatle-y; it’s very clean pop. Like, I didn’t realize — I thought they were just this weird band. So it’s cool just sitting back and listening to these guys play the first record back, where you get a real appreciation for it. It’s pretty stunning — just good rock ‘n’ roll.”

“Actually,” said Auer, “you could say that ‘#1 Record’ is the true Chris Bell/Chilton collaboration record too, even though it sure sounds like parts of ‘Radio City’ (the middle album) were written by Chris Bell, before they parted ways (prior to its recording).” (Auer’s appreciation for Bell’s contributions is well known, as the Posies made his ‘I Am the Cosmos’ a staple of their set from the late ’80s forward.)

“But I guess ‘Third’ is the cult record. I always think of ‘Third’ as being like Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin’ or something — that dark record. Starting with that is like starting with Lou Reed’s ‘Berlin’ and working your way back to ‘Walk on the Wild Side’ or something.” But when they were making the debut album, Auer relays, “Chilton called it ‘power pop for audiophiles.'”  

The fact that all this mostly volunteer effort is for charity makes the concentration of hours that go into such a careful reproduction worth it. Paul Rock’s Wild Honey charity, which he started to help autistic youth like his own son, has been putting on these benefits since the ’90s, with salutes to the Beatles, the Buffalo Springfield, the Beach Boys, the Band … there seems to be a “B” theme going, although they’ve snuck the Kinks and some others from the alphabet in, too.

“Not to keep heaping praise on people,” said Auer, “but I mean, how many better organizations are there than Wild Honey doing things for the right reason? This definitely qualifies as a labor of love, and I wholeheartedly support that.”

Said Stephens, “Aside from the music, it’s the people that get together for it that enhances that experience and makes it a community of people getting together. You know, it’s about love,” he added, quoting his own song title. “What can I say?”

Stephens’ ever-amiable presence and still-powerhouse drumming are a big part of the draw for many of the musicians. “Jody was very young — I think he was only 19 or 20 when he recorded the drums for the first album,” said Russell. “That’s pretty staggering, I think, because they’re pretty iconic drum parts. And he does ’em now note for note. And he still looks 19, the son of a bitch.”

“That’s right,” agreed Auer. “If Dorian Gray was a drummer.”

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50 years on: Power-packed tribute concert to celebrate Big Star’s ‘#1 Record’ | Testa

• Updated: Nov. 30, 2022, 4:57 p.m. |
• Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 2:19 p.m.

Jody Stephens, an original member of Big Star, will perform in a tribute concert to the band at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. (Stevo Rood photo)

• Jim Testa | For The Jersey Journal

One of the greatest records most people have never heard will have its 50th anniversary celebrated on Sunday, Dec. 4, at Jersey City’s White Eagle Hall when a group of indie rock stalwarts pays tribute to Big Star’s debut album, “#1 Record.”

A commercial failure on its release in 1972, “#1 Record” and Big Star’s other releases, “Radio City” and “3rd,” have grown in stature over the years, lauded by critics and often cited by superstars as diverse as REM and KISS as a major influence. The band showcased the songwriting and vocals of Alex Chilton (who at 16 had sung lead on the Box Tops’ hit “The Letter”) and Chris Bell, bassist Andy Hummel, and powerhouse drummer Jody Stephens.

Big Star found a new audience in the 1980s when the Bangles had a hit with “Septembur Gurls” and The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg wrote the song “Alex Chilton,” which included the line “I never travel far / without a little Big Star.”

The band got another bump in 1998 when “In the Street” became the theme song for television’s “That ‘70s Show.”

Rolling Stone hailed the group as “one of the most mythic and influential cult acts in all of rock & roll.”

Stephens, the band’s only surviving member, will be behind the kit at White Eagle Hall for the tribute concert, which he’s taking on the road with shows in Athens, Georgia, and Memphis before coming to Jersey City. The mini-tour will continue on to Ardmore, Pennsylvania; Washington, D.C.; and Carrboro, North Carolina.

Stephens will be surrounded by an impressive cast of musicians: REM’s Mike Mills, the Posies’ Jon Auer, Wilco’s Pat Sansone, and Chris Stamey (who formed the landmark Winston-Salem-to-Hoboken power-pop combo the dB’s after playing with Chilton’s post-Big Star solo band in the late 1970s). Also on the bill will be twentysomething heartthrobs the Lemon Twigs.

The ensemble will play “#1 Record” in its entirety and, following an intermission, a second set of favorites from the other Big Star albums as well as solo work from Chilton and Bell.

“I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to still be playing these songs,” enthused Stephens, now VP of Production at Memphis’ Ardent Studios, where Big Star recorded “#1 Record” 50 years ago . (Stephens has worked there in production and promotion since 1987.)

“I think a big reason the album holds up so well is (producer) John Fry,” said Stephens. “Sonically, it sparkles. Y’know, (pop music critic) Bud Scoppa once held up John Fry’s work on the Big Star stuff as the standard for other mix engineers to aspire to. John just had this incredible musical sense of the sonics and placement of instruments in a mix.

“And Chris (Bell) and Alex (Chilton) on this record just have the most emotive voices, there are just deep emotions in those voices that still connect with a lot of people, including me. And then there was (bassist) Andy Hummel. We were all sympathetic to what was going on. I think it’s a reflection of where we were in our lives. And I think any time you can do that successfully, you’ve got something that’s going to hang around a while.”

Ironically, the public only started to notice Big Star when other artists talked about the band in interviews and covered their songs.

“Thank God for Peter (Buck) and Michael (Stipe) of REM, that’s how we grew our audience,” Stephens said. “And then certainly Paul Westerberg and the ‘Alex Chilton’ song, and Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream. There were a lot of key players who kept our name in print, not to mention the writers. There were so many critics likening certain bands to Big Star and keeping our name out there. So we had a lot of help. There was a real community that built an audience for the band.”

Bell, who only officially appears on Big Star’s “#1 Record,” died tragically in a car accident in 1978 at the age of 27. Chilton reunited with Stephens in a revived version of Big Star (along with Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies) in 1998, but passed away from natural causes in 2010, days before Big Star was to perform at the SXSW Music Festival. Hummel died of cancer later that year.

“It certainly would be wonderful to still have Alex and Chris and Andy here, but I don’t find it sad that we’re playing this music without them,” Stephens said. “I see it as a joy to be able to do this and be a part of the legacy that they were so much a part of. What a nice bit of themselves to leave behind musically.”

“Don’t Lie to Me: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Big Star’s ‘#1 Record’” will be performed at White Eagle Hall, 337 Newark Ave., Jersey City, on Sunday, Dec. 4. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 (plus fees) and available at whiteeaglehalljc.com .

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Joining Stephens – the last surviving member of Big Star – will be Chris Stamey (dB’s), Mike Mills (REM), Jon Auer (The Posies) and Pat Sansone (Wilco).

In addition to #1 Record, the line-up will also play songs from the rest of the Big Star catalogue.

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The last surviving member of Big Star , drummer Jody Stephens has announced a US tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band’s seminal #1 Record .

Under the banner ‘Big Star’, Stephens will be joined by R.E.M.’s Mike Mills , Wilco’s Pat Sansone , The Posies’ Jon Auer and The dB’s Chris Stamey across six shows, playing the album in full.

The Memphis-based rock band dropped the debut record in 1972, which quickly garnered praise from critics and punters alike, most of whom cited the vocals of Chris Bell and Alex Chilton and their guitar work.

It also featured instant classics such as In The Street , Thirteen and Give Me Another Chance .

Speaking with Flood Magazine around the album’s reissue in 2020, Stephens said he didn’t have any expectations around its initial release.

“We did this great record, at such an amazing time - it was like a record of ‘how I spent my summer vacation,’ in a way,” he said.

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“I just marvelled at the way it all came together. I’d gone from being in what was primarily a cover band, where all the songs were laid out for everybody, with nothing much to create; you just had to have your chops up and be able to perform what someone else had written.

“So with #1 Record , I had to create these drum parts, which was challenging. But once I got into it and just let go, then I could tune in to Alex or Chris, and the rest took care of itself.”

For those interested, the Don’t Lie To Me! tour kicks off in late November in Georgia before making its way across the US in the two weeks that follow.

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Big Star’s #1 Record Turns 50

R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, plus members of the Posies and Wilco, join Big Star drummer Jody Stephens on a tour to celebrate the anniversary of the Memphis band’s not-so-hit debut album

By Jim Beaugez

October 27, 2022

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There’s irony, and then there’s naming your band Big Star and your debut album  #1 Record only to see sales stiff at just a few thousand copies, causing your bandmate to quit and your music to recede into relative obscurity.

In 1972, though, on the eve of the record’s release, Memphis power-poppers Big Star seemed poised for the big time. Co-frontman Alex Chilton had already tasted success with the Box Tops, whose 1967 hit “ The Letter ” thrust him, at 16, into the spotlight. Now a few years older and a bit more jaded, Chilton joined co-frontman Chris Bell, bassist Andy Hummel, and Stephens on drums to form Big Star, drawing the attention and support of Memphis label Ardent Records. 

When #1 Record dropped, Rolling Stone praised it, and radio stations in New York and Boston added the band to their playlists. The only problem: Nobody could find the record in stores. “[The deejays] would call the record stores and get a gauge on what the response was, and they weren’t selling any records because they didn’t have any to sell,” says Jody Stephens, Big Star’s drummer and the band’s sole surviving member. “So, they stopped playing it.”

After #1 Record crashed on impact, Bell quit. The band continued as a trio, releasing Radio City in 1974. Hummel eventually left, and Chilton and Stephens pieced together another album, a shambolic affair released as Third in 1978.

While few people heard Big Star, the band made a seismic impression on those who did. Guitarist Peter Buck introduced them to Mike Mills, who would soon become his bandmate in R.E.M. “When I heard Big Star, I recognized people who did what I wanted to do,” Mills says. “They wrote songs that both rocked and were sensitive and beautiful, sometimes at the same time. It was an encapsulation of everything I believed a band should be.”

Big Star was also a massive influence on eighties college rock, the tag given to the decade’s surge of jangly power-pop bands. When Minneapolis punks the Replacements recorded their 1987 album, Pleased To Meet Me , they included the tribute song “ Alex Chilton .” (The semi-reclusive Chilton played on another track, “ Can’t Hardly Wait .”) The band’s biggest break came when their song “ In the Street ” was rerecorded by Cheap Trick and selected as the theme song to the late-nineties and early 2000s sitcom That ’70s Show.

A reformed Big Star—led by Chilton and Stephens, with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies rounding out the lineup—performed and recorded sporadically beginning in 1993. Tragedy struck days before the band’s scheduled performance at South by Southwest in 2010, though, when Chilton died of a heart attack. Stephens rallied Evan Dando, Chris Stamey, and Curt Kirkwood to play the festival as a tribute to his friend.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of #1 Record , Stephens has recruited Mills, Stamey, Auer, and Wilco’s Pat Sansone for a six-city tour in November and December, where they’ll perform the album in full each night. 

We spoke with Stephens about his memories of creating #1 Record and its legacy.

When you think of #1 Record , what memories shine brightest?

It was a new adventure for me, because my brother and I had been in cover bands and all of a sudden, I’m sitting down and having to create my own drum parts with some really talented guys. This was a whole new ballgame. I was seventeen, I think, when “ My Life is Right ” was cut, and then eighteen when we did the record, so I just remember feeling really lucky to be there and a bit timid about things.

Does the title reflect the feeling going into the album?

I think that might have been a bit tongue-in-cheek, but Chris was dead serious about the music and the production of that music and its direction. He lived and breathed it. It’s not a reference to it being our first album, it’s a chart reference. I think that was just in keeping with that audacity or whatever it was. At the time, I had trouble telling people what the name of the band was because I thought it was a little pretentious, but getting into it and tracking [songs] like “ The Ballad of El Goodo ” was such a rush, because I think we were all a good fit for each other.

The band’s SXSW appearance in 2010 turned into a tribute to Alex, who had passed away three days earlier. What are your recollections from that day?

I was in the middle of the [festival’s] registration hall when I got a call from Alex’s wife, and she told me he had passed. All of a sudden, you hear something like that and you feel really isolated. It was devastating and such a complete surprise. I just went back to the hotel room and made a few phone calls to Jon [Auer] and Ken [Stringfellow] about whether to play or not, but I don’t think any of us had the idea of not playing. We quickly turned it into a tribute to Alex and got some wonderful folks to join us. Andy Hummel was there and joined us on a few songs.

Back in 1972, Alex had already been through the hit parade with “The Letter.” Did success seem inevitable for Big Star?

For me, it was kind of pie-in-the-sky to think it was gonna go anywhere. However, I think it was a foregone conclusion for Chris, and I think that’s what was so upsetting to him—that it didn’t really get in the record stores and it didn’t get to where he wanted it to be.

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Big Star's '#1 Record' At 50

Modern power pop artists discuss the lasting influence of this mythic debut album. The ballad of Big Star is an epic tale filled with unbridled talent, artistic ambition, commercial failure, tragedy, obscurity, resurrection, and, ultimately, lasting influence as towering power pop icons.

Big Star is delayed gratification incarnate. What’s more power pop than that? And it all starts with #1 Record (Ardent/Stax, 1972), the stunning debut that turned 50 this year.

In the five decades since its release, this 12-song collection has cast a long neon shadow across musical generations—from ‘80s/‘90s artists like the Bangles , Teenage Fanclub , the Posies , Matthew Sweet and Elliott Smith , to modern power pop/power pop-adjacent acts like Dazy , 2nd Grade , Nick Frater , Uni Boys , Radio Days …and countless others in between.

“I think one of the coolest things about #1 Record , and Big Star in general, is that you appreciate them more and more as you get older and hear more music. You hear the impact it’s had on so many different great bands and it makes you love the songs even more,” said James Goodson , the one-man, Richmond, VA-based band Dazy.

Dazy’s debut album, OUTOFBODY (Lame-O Records, 2022), deftly combines the ‘60s pop hooks Big Star loved with the ‘90s alternative rock energy that Big Star helped shape—but Dazy doesn’t sound like Big Star. Instead, their impact on bands like Dazy is felt through the multi-decade rock and roll relay race of shared influences.

“I got into Big Star through Teenage Fanclub,” Goodson said. “I remember being kind of surprised when I first heard #1 Record because, coming off of the early Teenage Fanclub records, I was expecting a louder band. But the songwriting is so catchy and has this sweetness to it that you connect with really quickly.”

Goodson counts “The Ballad of El Goodo” among his favorite #1 Record songs, while gushing about the one-two punch of “Thirteen” and “Don’t Lie To Me”: “I love that they have this really delicate song go right into a totally rowdy rocker. ‘Thirteen’ ends and you hear them talking in the studio and then ‘Don’t Lie To Me’ just knocks you over.”

Memphis-based Big Star formed in 1971, recording three albums in their original four-year run. Only #1 Record features the complete original line up of Chris Bell (guitar/vocals), Alex Chilton (guitar/vocals), Andy Hummel (bass) and Jody Stephens (drums).

“Having grown up together in the Memphis garage rock scene, Chris and Alex came into Big Star with an existing chemistry,” said Rich Tupica , author of There Was A Light: The Cosmic History of Chris Bell and the Rise of Big Star (Permuted Press). “They both had amazing songs they’d been honing over the previous months. Coming into the project, Big Star, with such a refined batch of songs made their chemistry ignite quickly. It also allowed them to just listen to each other’s songs and add accents and tweaks.”

“They wrote (the songs) apart from each other, but worked them over in the studio and at rehearsals together. Chris meticulously layered the songs with endless overdubs and alterations he and Alex worked on, so the end result is a pristine documentation of that songwriting partnership,” Tupica said.

But that partnership didn’t last long. Bell, the band member most involved with the production of #1 Record , quit for good during the early writing for a second album; Hummel was gone shortly after the release of Radio City . Only Chilton and Stephens remained to complete the collection that later became Third/Sister Lovers ( PVC , 1978).

By 1975, Big Star—critical darlings considered one of America’s most promising guitar pop groups—had fully imploded. That would be the end of the story for ninety-nine-point-nine percent of bands, but the cosmos had other plans for these talented underdogs.

Big Star was resurrected—at first in the late ‘70s U.K. music press—and then in the ‘80s by U.S. college rock bands like R.E.M. , the dB’s and the Replacements who elevated their heroes to the power pop pantheon alongside Badfinger and Raspberries where they still reside today.

“Anybody who’s strummed the intro to ‘September Gurls’ with huge jangly downstrokes knows how goddamn great it feels to play this kind of music, and that’s the feeling that motivates me to do what I do,” said Peter Gill , singer/songwriter for Philadelphia’s 2nd Grade whose third album, Easy Listening (Double Double Whammy, 2022), is a shining example of modern power pop at its best.

Based on the renewed interest in their music, Chilton and Stephens reformed Big Star in the mid-‘90s. They performed occasionally into the 2000s with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of the Posies (Hummel declined to participate), in addition to releasing a fourth studio album, In Space (Rykodisc, 2005).

“I remember Chris and Alex introducing the song ‘The Ballad of El Goodo’ in rehearsal. That was pretty exciting because I had been in cover bands all my life and never really was called to create drum parts for songs. It’s an incredible song and it’s pretty inspirational,” Stephens said by phone from Ardent Studios in Memphis where he serves as Vice President.

Ardent has been Big Star’s home base ever since studio/label founder and #1 Record producer John Fry took the band under his wing in the early ’70s. “He was a mentor to all of us and gave Chris, Alex and Andy keys to the studio—I didn’t want one [laughs]. They could come in and learn how to engineer, and Chris could sit at the console and work on guitar parts and sounds.”

It’s hard to imagine now from the depths of the digital home recording era, but this ability to record whenever the muse struck was an enormous luxury back then, especially for a new band. Fry’s mentorship allowed Big Star to develop their songwriting and sound in a focused way that is evident throughout their debut album.

“It all starts with how music impacts you,” Stephens said. “John Fry was a huge part of that sonically, and then John King , the promotions guy at Ardent, made sure (Big Star’s music) got into the hands of all the rock writers—iconic people whose opinions were respected. People like Mike Mills (R.E.M.) read about Big Star and would say nice things about us. And that’s basically why we are where we are today. It was just a nice chain of events.”

As the sole surviving member of Big Star (Bell died in 1978; Chilton and Hummel both died in 2010), Stephens will be drumming for a series of all-star #1 Record 50th anniversary performances. The first show is a Wild Honey benefit concert in Los Angeles on November 5. The band will feature Mills, Chris Stamey (the dB’s) and Pat Sansone ( Wilco ), among many others; special guests include Susanna Hoffs , Chris Price , The Lemon Twigs , and Auer, in addition to Luther Russell (Stephens’ partner in the duo Those Pretty Wrongs ).

That one-off performance will be followed by the 6-date Don’t Lie To Me! tour in late November and early December (see cities and dates on poster image above). The core band on those shows will feature Mills, Auer, Stamey and Sansone, along with a few special guests.

It’s widely accepted that Big Star reached a jangly power pop pinnacle with the Radio City track “September Gurls,” but many of the elements that make that song so perfect can be found all over #1 Record . Big Star pre-dated wide usage of the term “power pop,” but their catalog is a sort of sub-genre starter kit that certain kinds of songwriters have been tapping into ever since.

“Between Big Star’s album-pacing style, twangy jangly guitar sounds, sweet and cynical vocal inflections, and that signature jazzy chord produced by barring every string with a single finger, there’s a lot we’ve borrowed from them,” Gill said. (2nd Grade’s song “Teenage Overpopulation” from Easy Listening also includes a clever “Paint It Black” lyrical nod to Big Star’s “Thirteen.”)

“My perennial favorite song from #1 Record has got to be ‘When My Baby’s Beside Me’. In contrast to much of the album, ‘When My Baby’s Beside Me’ seems less a sonic manifestation of adolescent emotional extremes, and more a tightly-crafted, pure pop confection. It’s like a love letter to the Stax radio hits of Alex’s teenage years, as well as a clean and uncomplicated contribution to the great American pop canon,” Gill said.

Like 2nd Grade, Croydon-based British tunesmith Nick Frater’s brand of modern pop rock often gets compared to Big Star. Frater discovered Third/Sister Lovers as a ’90s teen thanks to Mojo magazine, but didn’t hear #1 Record until a few years later. “Big Star are one of the cornerstones of the ‘70s version of the music we all love. As with those sort of influences, it’s impossible to deny, whether conscious or not,” Frater said.

It’s true that Big Star’s look and sound conjure a specific post- Beatles rock era, but the songwriting is timeless. Decades later, their pull remains so powerful that a kid from the new Millennium can still get swept up by their music.

“My father turned me onto Big Star when I was ten-years-old or so. He would download music from his library onto an iPod for me and would choose select songs from the records he had. ‘Feel,’ ‘In The Street’ and ‘Ballad of El Goodo’ were on that iPod,” said Uni Boys singer/guitarist, Noah Nash . Uni Boys is a SoCal quartet that serves up classic ‘70s/’80s power pop on their third album, Do It All Next Week (Curation Records, 2022).

These days, Nash favors Chilton’s songs like “The Ballad of El Goodo” and “Give Me Another Chance,” but says the Bell-penned tracks “Feel” and “Don’t Lie To Me” still hold a special place in his heart. As a songwriter, Nash admits he was more intentional about mimicking Big Star when he was younger, but sees subtle influences in Uni Boys tracks like “Caroline Kills.”

“I always loved #1 Record , but my relationship with it changed as I became a better musician. I could better understand the genius behind their perfect mix of good melody, great harmony, amazing singing, playing and songwriting,” said Radio Days singer/guitarist, Dario Persi .

The high-energy trio has released four albums, including Rave On! (Screaming Apple Records, 2021), in addition to a handful of E.P.s and 7-inches. Their hooky sound draws on a variety of influences, from British Invasion bands to the Ramones , the Beat to the Rubinoos , but Dario says that Big Star is foundational.

“‘The Ballad of El Goodo’ is my favorite Big Star song ever. I just love everything about it, from the production to the songwriting and the lyrics. I always get emotional when I listen to it, even after all these years,” Persi said. “’Thirteen’ is a timeless classic. And ‘In the Streets’ shows the rock and roll side of Big Star with that amazing guitar riff. Wish I could have heard it live! It must have been amazing.”

If you’re like Persi and never got to see Big Star play live—either in the ’70s or during the ’90s/‘00s Chilton/Stephens reunion era—you don’t want to miss these #1 Record anniversary performances (I got my tickets for LA).

But if you aren’t lucky enough to live near one of the cities where Stephens and crew will be performing, just listen to #1 Record to remind yourself why people are still raving about this mythic album 50 years after it was released.

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Big Star was truly an ambitious band, calling themselves stars from the very beginning and naming their first album #1 Record. Unfortunately their immense talent at crafting some of the catchiest and most emotive songs in rock and roll history did not become recognized until after they had disbanded.

Big Star had the ability to crank out power-pop songs as if they were the Beatles. In fact Chris Bell and Alex Chilton followed the Beatles model of songwriting as they were the two primary songwriters for the group as McCartney and Lennon were the main songwriters for the Beatles. During live performances Bell and Chilton would switch back and forth singing vocals on the songs they wrote. Although #1 Record received great critical praise, it unfortunately was a commercial failure due to a lack of wide distribution. This downturn for Big Star influenced Chris Bell to leave the band. Alex Chilton however remained with the band to write more music and tour. Due to popular bands such as R.E.M. citing Big Star as a major influence caused a revival in popularity of Big Star in the late 80’s. Big Star impressed fans in the early 90’s by reforming with Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens returning as original members. Big Star was now playing to larger audiences who vigorously embraced and respected them. Fans loved their catchy rhythms and jangly guitar sounds that they were so great at creating. Alex Chilton was well renowned for his pristine vocals and his catchy guitar playing, which incorporated tasty solos. Unfortunately the death of Alex Chilton in 2010 saw the dissolution of Big Star.

To this day Big Star’s influence can strongly be seen in the music world. Such artists as Wilco and Elliott Smith lauded their music and performed various covers of their songs. Their song “In The Street” is highly recognizable as the theme song for “That ‘70s Show”. Although Big Star is no longer a band, their music is still being performed live. Big Star’s drummer, Jody Stephens, has teamed up with such musicians as R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, Wilco’s Pat Sansone, and The dB’s Chris Stamey to go on tour and perform Big Star’s third album in its entirety. Big Star was a paramount figure in influencing what rock and roll is today and to see their style being re-imagined through other bands is a complete joy.

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The Minnesota Racing Commission voted Monday to approve an additional form of gaming, historical horse racing, at Canterbury Park and Running Aces.

Historical horse racing (HHR) is a machine-based game that allows users to wager on past horse races. It has been used in several other states to generate additional money for live racing purses. In January, Canterbury and Running Aces asked the commission to approve on-track advance deposit wagering on HHR, which they argued it could do without legislative approval.

The commission was not expected to make a decision at Monday's meeting. But after more than 3½ hours of discussion, including emotional testimony from Minnesota horse owners and breeders worried about the survival of their sport, it voted 5-1 to approve HHR, effective May 21.

"We are at a critical crossroads," said commissioner Raymond Dehn, who voted yes. "There is a lot at stake."

The Minnesota Indian Gaming Association (MIGA) and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), which operates Mystic Lake Casino, both spoke against the proposal and could pursue legal action to block HHR. One sports betting bill being discussed at the state legislature, the House version, also would prohibit HHR.

Andy Platto, MIGA's executive director, called the vote "an extreme violation of legislative authority." He said the group "will be looking at all available options" to stop the tracks from adding the games, which he described as "just like slot machines."

Canterbury's daily purses dropped 21% last season after the end of a 10-year deal with SMSC that added more than $7 million per year to the purse fund. The lower purses attracted fewer horses, leading to a 42% decline in wagering. Uncertainty about purses has decimated Minnesota's thoroughbred breeding industry, with only 78 foals — the lowest number ever — registered last year.

Monday's vote would allow 500 HHR terminals at each track. A study commissioned by the tracks estimates that in its second year, HHR would generate $5.9 million for purses, plus money for the state breeders' fund, retired racehorse programs and regulatory costs.

The commission voted to make its approval of HHR effective the day after the legislative session ends, in the hope that the tracks and tribes might negotiate while sports betting bills are being debated. It proceeded with the vote despite a requirement to consult with the tribes; the commission has requested a meeting, but it has not happened yet.

The current sports betting bills would allow only the tribes to conduct sports wagering. The House bill would give the tracks a $625,000 stipend to share, while the Senate bill would give them an amount capped at $3 million per year.

Track representatives and horsemen said Monday that racing could end in Minnesota without additional purse funding. Rick Bremer of Lake City, who has raced and bred racehorses for 30 years, said he is "desperately concerned this industry is going to die," adding that HHR "would have a substantial impact on breeders."

The HHR terminals proposed for Canterbury Park and Running Aces would offer pari-mutuel wagering, with the same type of bets allowed on actual races at the tracks. While track representatives argued they are "games of skill," since players can use handicapping information to place their bets, representatives for the tribes said HHR is a gambling device and game of chance that the commission cannot authorize.

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Big Brother star Charlie Doherty has announced she’s been diagnosed with a brain tumour, and revealed the difficulties she’s faced in finally being given an answer to her unusual symptoms.

The reality star, 39, appeared on the reality programme in 2016 , alongside the likes of Andrew Tate and Lateysha Grace, with Jason Burrill going on to win.

Charlie, who welcomed her son 16 months ago, revealed on Thursday that she has an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour in the brain.

Opening up about her diagnosis, she admitted it was ‘scary and shocking’, and has now told Metro.co.uk how hard it was for her to finally be diagnosed after a year of living with difficult symptoms.

In April 2023, Charlie came off a flight feeling like she had a ‘blocked’ right ear, a feeling that remained constant.

Eventually, she went to see a doctor, but was told it could have arisen from a cold or was a build-up of wax, or may have occurred from stress or a build-up of fluids, like water when she was washing her hair.

But Charlie wasn’t convinced by those suggestions, and her symptoms began to worsen in various settings.

She told us: ‘I was in a club one night and couldn’t stand properly, I was getting wobbly in my heels, and the louder the music was, the worse I was.

‘And I felt like saying, “Can you just turn the music down? This is unbearable.”

‘Everyone was like, “What’s wrong with you?” and I didn’t know, I just got this weird feeling in my ear, it was so sensitive to sound.’

‘Since then, it’s progressively gotten worse,’ she added. Now, if someone is talking to her standing on her right-side, Charlie has to ask them to move to the other.

A few months later, Charlie began noticing ‘beeping’ sounds in her ear, which she’d never felt before.

‘That’s been ongoing ever since, not everyday, but maybe twice a week I get this beeping, especially at night I hear it when it’s quiet. They said it was tinnitus and that can come from anxiety,’ she went on.

As a mum of a baby, Charlie admitted she’s thrown ‘off balance’ when he cries or screams in her right ear, saying: ‘It is really hard because he doesn’t understand.’

As the symptoms worsened, Charlie pushed for an MRI scan, and now feels like it was ‘a saving grace’, despite the shock and worry that’s come from her diagnosis, which was an ‘alien topic’ she’d never heard of before.

‘It was an initial shock, I was very upset and worried and scared as you would be, you go through all the emotions,’ she said, continuing: ‘It comes in waves because you think, it could be a lot worse, there’s a lot worse tumours out there to have, so I’m just trying to keep a positive mind on everything.’

She received her diagnosis just days ago on Tuesday, but had been dealing with symptoms for months and felt ‘fobbed off’ by doctors over the last year.

Charlie explained how last year she saw an ENT specialist for a hearing test shortly after her symptoms first began, but was told ‘everything is normal’ and a subsequent CT scan showed no worrying signs.

However, Charlie instinctively knew something was still wrong, and in following appointments with various doctors was told she had a ‘perforation’ in her ear – something she hadn’t yet been told by any of the specialist she’d seen.

Two weeks ago though, a doctor told Charlie they couldn’t see a perforation in her ear, but could see scar tissue, and eventually she was sent for an MRI, the results of which she found out on Tuesday.

She was told her ‘pea-sized tumour’ which sits on an outside nerve of her brain causes a risk of growing and pushing against her brain and causing further problems.

‘Straight away, you hear brain and tumour, and it’s not a good combination at all,’ she said, recalling the phone call.The news was particularly difficult as Charlie had suffered the deaths of two friends from brain tumours in the past.

Thankfully, hers is benign and is not pressing on her brain yet, and she awaits a consultation about treatment options.

After suffering with health anxiety, Charlie wanted to share her diagnosis so that she could hear from other people going through the same experience, whilst also speaking out for others who may feel like they’re going through it alone.

She wrote on Instagram yesterday: ‘So I received some rubbish news this week… I have been having some ongoing issues which has gone on a while and I pushed for an MRI which has resulted in them finding a brain tumour .

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‘I have been researching and finding out as much as I can and I basically wanted to share awareness that this is happening more and more and to younger people, I don’t know if this was caused by environmental factors but if I was to hazard a guess it could be from mobile phone use in my right ear for a number of years / sunbeds / nightclubs in loud music. 

‘That’s obviously just speculation as I don’t know enough about it yet. Other than it’s rare and does have treatment options.’

She went on: ‘If anyone knows or has had this kind of tumour please let me know best treatments to be looked at and any advice you can give.

‘To me this is a very alien subject scary and quite frankly shocking. The tumour is called an acoustic neuroma.

‘Sorry to share such a negative list but I am very health conscious and worried. And any information people can give me (as well as the professionals) is all appreciated right now. Love and peace.’

Charlie’s post was showered in love and support, with fans and friends alike sending their well-wishes and own experiences.

One asked the symptoms Charlie faced, ‘so others know what to look for’, with the TV star replying: ‘Muffled hearing, sensitivity to sound and a blocked feeling in one ear. A bit of dizziness.’

Follower @quinn_jj said: ‘So sorry to read about your diagnosis Charlie. I can’t imagine how you are feeling. I do know that this tumour doesn’t have a clue who it’s messing with.’

@tonisuecoulson added: ‘Hi Charlie I’m so sorry to hear this it’s a hard thing to come to term with . I had the same brain tumour had it removed last March and still getting use to the new me . Not sure if your size but there are normally three options watch and wait radiotherapy or the operation. I had to have the operation because mine had got too big . If you want to know anything drop me a line . I am in a group and all have it or had surgery and so helpful . Good luck.’

The NHS says an acoustic neuroma can grow on the nerve used for hearing and balance, and treatment includes brain surgery and stereotactic radio surgery.

They grow very slowly or not at all, but can be serious and cause a life-threatening build-up of fluid in the brain.

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Chiefs’ Travis Kelce says he will go see Taylor Swift on tour in Europe

The musical lineup has been announced ahead of the return of Kelce Jam next month at Azura Amphitheater.

Kelce Jam is Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s music festival, and since last year’s show he began dating someone really big in the music business: Taylor Swift.

In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Kelce was asked if he learned anything from Swift.

“I did: Don’t try and be Taylor , that’s what I learned,” Kelce said. “Yeah, she’s on a whole other stratosphere. She’s the best at what she does for a reason. It’s because she’s so articulate and just very dialed into every single thing that she does. And that’s the beauty of it. I’d be silly if I ever tried to take anything from what she does, other than just enjoy the people that show up. I think that’s one thing I could probably take away: She really relates to the people she’s performing in front of, and so I’ll take that.”

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Kelce was asked how the couple influences each other’s taste in music.

“It’s definitely been fun to experience her taste in music for sure,” Kelce said. “I mean, she’s so amazing at what she does. And to find that creativity, to see where she likes to pull things from and just really how she listens to music is very eye-opening to me. So it’s been fun getting to hear her taste on it.”

Swift is taking a break from her Eras Tour at the moment, but she’ll be heading to Europe next month. Kelce is in the offseason from the Chiefs, but he’ll still have work to do with the team this spring.

When asked if Kelce plans a trip to Europe to see Swift, he said: “Oh, you know, I’ve got to go support. You know it.”

Kelce also talked about how he and Swift both try to make time to see the other do their jobs.

“I think we’re both very career-driven,” Kelce said. “I think we both love what we do. And, you know, any chance that I can, you know, show my support to her and knowing that she’s shown me all the support in the world throughout the season. It’s just been an amazing experience.”

Here is the interview with Entertainment Tonight.

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Five Things to Know: Alex Fitzpatrick

Here are five things to know about DP World Tour rookie Alex Fitzpatrick , a rising star in the professional game.

The second series of Netflix’s Full Swing includes a focus on the Fitzpatrick brothers, particularly how younger sibling Alex seeks to emerge from the shadow of Major Championship winner Matt and blaze his own path to golf glory.

The episode provides an inside look at the brothers' shared pursuit of success, albeit with the pair - separated by a four-year age gap - at different stages in their professional careers.

Less than a year on from joining the paid ranks, we find Alex plying his trade on the European Challenge Tour, home of many future Major champions, while Matt is among the best in the world and competing on both the DP World Tour and PGA TOUR.

Like with most siblings, the duo are competitive but the cameras hone in on how supportive they are of each other, while also highlighting the challenges their parents Susan and Russell face in following their sons' fortunes around the world.

Since its filming, in which we see Alex dispel doubts to outperform his better-known sibling Matt on the Major scene, the former has earned his DP World Tour membership and is already making encouraging strides in his development.

Here's what you need to know about him.

Amateur highs

Alex won titles at every level of amateur golf and represented both England and Great Britain and Ireland in international competitions.

As a freshman at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, he played the 2018-19 season alongside Cameron Young, who was a senior. He reached the quarter-finals of the 2018 U.S. Amateur and was part of an England team, featuring future PGA TOUR member Harry Hall, that lost out to a Swedish side that featured Ludvig Åberg and Vincent Normann in the final of the European Amateur Team Championship in 2019. That same year, he made the first of two Walker Cup appearances and was part of a winning International team at the Arnold Palmer Cup in 2020.

While still an amateur, he made the cut at the 2021 Cazoo Open supported by Gareth Bale, before playing at the PGA TOUR's Valspar Championship prior to his debut in the professional ranks at the 2022 Horizon Irish Open.

Brookline memories

Brookline will forever hold a special place in the heart of the Fitzpatrick family. After all, it was the scene of a childhood memory that will forever remain ingrained in both Alex and Matt and where the latter achieved the greatest moment of his career so far.

In 2013, Alex carried the bag for Matt as he won the U.S. Amateur at The Country Club in Boston, Massachusetts and nine years later was greenside to see his older brother win his first Major Championship at the U.S. Open. In the immediate aftermath, Alex Fitzpatrick revealed how his brother’s U.S. Open triumph came at a cost following a last-minute change of plans.

“I actually flew home yesterday (Saturday) afternoon and then flew straight back when I saw he was tied for the lead. It’s been a hectic 24 hours but it was definitely worth the 150 dollars coming back. I couldn’t be prouder of him. It’s his dedication to getting better each day. If you look at 99 per cent of the field, none of them would go through what he does to get better, even one per cent a day.”

Just like in 2013, the Fitzpatrick family stayed with the same host family, Will and Jennifer Fulton, and their three children, Sam, Annabelle and George.

Matt Fitzpatrick, a Major Champion. That’s pretty cool. Proud of you @mattfitz94 🏆🐿 pic.twitter.com/x8X7kfU4Bk — Alex (@FitzAlex99) June 20, 2022

At home on the big stage

Alex secured his full playing privileges on the DP World Tour for this season through a series of strong results last summer summer, a period in which he also claimed his first professional victory at the British Challenge presented by Modest! Golf Management on the European Challenge Tour.

A month earlier, he made a splash on one of the biggest stages in golf as he outperformed brother Matt for the first time in a professional event by finishing in a tie for 17th on his debut in The Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, having come through Final Qualifying at West Lancashire. Late on in the Full Swing episode, Alex is heard saying, "It's the first day I feel like I've become my own person."

Later that month, he finished second at the ISPS HANDA World Invitational presented by AVIV Clinics in Northern Ireland, while he was also in contention to emulate brother Matt as a winner of the Omega European Masters. In his rookie season on the DP World Tour, he has so far registered five top-20 finishes.

His golfer girlfriend

While Alex will not be in the field for the Masters Tournament, the first men's Major of the season, he is experiencing the famed venue for the first time as the caddie for his girlfriend Rachel Kuehn in this week's Augusta National Women's Amateur. Alex met American Keuhn, ranked 15th in Women's Amateur Golf Rankings, at Wake Forest.

This won't be the first time he has caddied for her, having done so on the LPGA Tour last year. She made her LPGA Tour debut at the 2023 Amundi Evian Championship and is seen supporting Alex at events during the filming of Full Swing . Alex has admitted he has a greater competitive rivalry with his girlfriend, with the pair seen taking part in chipping and putting contests. She is the daughter of Brenda Kuehn, a former high-level golfer herself who once played the U.S. Women's Open when eight months pregnant with Rachel.

His love of Sheffield United

When you talk about the Fitzpatrick brothers, it is hard to ignore their love of English football club Sheffield United. Both are long-time supporters of their hometown club and been regular visitors over the years to Bramall Lane. Former Blades boss Neil Warnock was present to see Alex win his maiden title as a professional at St. Mellion last summer, something that made brother Alex jealous.

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Big names look to find some form in the final event before the masters.

Only one tournament separates players from the first major championship of the season. The 2024 Texas Open will serve as the appetizer for the main dish that is the Masters once again this year, and the tournament welcomes a litany of stars hoping to find some form before making the trip to Augusta National.

In an up-and-down season that has seen everything from longshots winning to world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler going back-to-back, players such as Rory McIlroy, Max Homa, Jordan Spieth and Collin Morikawa have been left searching for answers. McIlroy tees it up in San Antonio for the second time in the last three years as looks for the elusive Masters victory. 

Making good on his word of committing to a busier schedule, McIlroy's appearance in the Texas Open will mark his eighth tournament of the season. McIlroy is without a top 10 on the PGA Tour so far this year as he battles inconsistencies with his long game. 

He is not alone. Jordan Spieth is fresh off missing back-to-back cuts at the Valspar Championship and the Players Championship. The winner of this event in 2021, Spieth hopes to rediscover some magic in his home state before the Masters, where he always seems to contend no matter his play leading into it.

While Spieth has always been a bit of a volatile player, the ever-reliable Morikawa has not been clicking. The two-time major champion has been without his greatest weapon — his iron play — in the early stages of the year, and the results (or lack thereof) have been indicative of this.

These three are joined in the field by a number of other major contenders including Genesis Invitational winner Hideki Matsuyama, Max Homa, former U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick, Champion Golfer of the Year Brian Harman, Tommy Fleetwood, Ludvig Åberg and reigning champion Corey Conners.

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Dates:  Apr. 4-7 |  Location:  TPC San Antonio (Oaks Course) — San Antonio, Texas Par:  72 |  Yardage:  7,438 |  Purse:  $9,200,000

2024 Texas Open field, odds

• Rory McIlroy (9-1): McIlroy has experienced a disappointing start to the year, but he may be beginning to find his footing. Connecting on four straight top 25s, the 34-year-old's game has been riddled by the big number. Already in 2024, McIlroy has hit 13 balls in the water and carded more double bogeys than he had in all of 2023. The big left miss continues to pop up at the most inopportune time, and the iron play is not in a place where he is comfortable. He has stated he has two swings going (one for his driver and one for his irons), and that will need to change if he plans to contend this week. More importantly, though, it bodes well for next week in Augusta.
• Ludvig Åberg (12-1)
• Hideki Matsuyama (18-1): The man from Japan has looked like his normal self over the past two months. Racing to the finish line en route to victory at Riviera, Matsuyama continues his good play at TPC Sawgrass where he notched another top-10 finish. He ranks fifth in the world in strokes gained tee to green and first around the green since the beginning of the calendar year. 
• Jordan Spieth (18-1): It has been a bad couple months for Spieth after a really nice January. He contended at The Sentry and the WM Phoenix Open the first week of February but has since fallen off a cliff. A DQ from the Genesis Invitational has been followed by a T30 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and a pair of missed cuts. The iron play has been sloppy, but as we have seen throughout his career, that change quickly.
• Max Homa (22-1)
• Collin Morikawa (22-1):  What type of player is Morikawa without his elite-level iron play? Well, we have received the answer in the early parts of 2024. Outside of the Sentry, Morikawa has struggled relative to his normal levels with his scoring clubs and has gained four strokes on approach in only one tournament (the Genesis Invitational). Without his superpower in his corner, the two-time major champion has been a non-factor as he ranks 52nd on the PGA Tour in strokes gained approach.
• Corey Conners (22-1)
• Matt Fitzpatrick (25-1): It had been a bit of a quiet start to the season for Fitzpatrick before bursting onto the Players Championship leaderboard. Resulting in a top-five finish, Fitzpatrick's play at TPC Sawgrass reminded golf fans what he is capable of with a cooperative driver or two. The Englishman appears to have found the form with the big stick, and that could be the tipping point in things to come as he has poked his head on leaderboards around this time of year the past few seasons.
• Tommy Fleetwood (30-1)
• Alex Noren (30-1)

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