NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Alex Chilton on 22 February 2024. Alex Chilton has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 30 episodes and was first played on 12 August 2014.

Alex Chilton (Memphis, Tennessee, December 28, 1950 – New Orleans, Louisiana, March 17, 2010) was an American songwriter, guitarist, singer, and producer, best known for his work with the pop-music bands The Box Tops and Big Star. Chilton's early commercial sales success in the 1960s as a teen vocalist for The Box Tops was not repeated in later years with Big Star and in his indie music solo…