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Keith Richards

Born: December 18, 1943

Keith Richards is the only child of Bertrand Richards and Doris Richards (née Dupree). He was born at Livingston Hospital in Dartford, Kent. His father was a factory worker who was injured in World War II during the Normandy invasion. Richards' paternal grandparents were Socialists and civic leaders whose family originated from Wales. His maternal grandfather, Augustus Theodore Dupree, who toured Britain with a jazz big band, "Gus Dupree and his Boys", fostered Richards' interest in guitar. Richards' mother bought him his first guitar and he played at home, listening to recordings by Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and others

Hackney Diamonds (2CD)

Label: Rolling Stones Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: CD1: Angry; Get Close; Depending On You; Bite My Head Off; Whole Wide World; Dreamy Skies; Mess It Up; Live By the Sword; Driving Me Too Hard; Tell Me Straight; Sweet Sounds of Heaven; Rolling Stone Blues. CD2 – Live at Racket, NYC: Shattered; Angry; Whole Wide World; Bite My Head Off; Jumpin’ Jack Flash; Sweet Sounds of Heaven.

Rolling Stones: Live At The Wiltern (2CD/DVD)

by Doug Collette
March 10, 2024

Cowed as the Rolling Stones may have been by the tragedy that was Altamont in December 1969, 'the greatest rock and roll band in the world' nevertheless came to take some risks as their career evolved in the wake of the Mick Jagger/Keith Richards rapprochement in the late Eighties. Machine-like as the operation became ...

Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds (2CD)

by Doug Collette
March 2, 2024

The Rolling Stones have taken some risks of greater and lesser proportion over the course of their sixty-plus- year career, but perhaps no gamble is so great as the decision by the surviving members of the band to continue on after the passing of drummer Charlie Watts. With the blessing of their co-founder in ...

Spirit: La famiglia scende in campo

by Maurizio Comandini
August 21, 2023

Randy California, nato nel 1951 a Los Angeles come Randy Craig Wolfe, iniziò a suonare la chitarra giovanissimo, aiutato dalla madre, una musicista folk, che gli insegnò le prime posizioni sulla tastiera. La madre Bernice era sorella di Ed Pearl, proprietario del locale Ash Grove e il giovane Randy si ritrovò a vivere in prima persona ...

Jim Josselyn: Shape Shifter

by Kyle Simpler
August 17, 2023

Keith Richards once said if “you don't know the blues, there's no point in picking up the guitar." This is certainly true about rock, but it could just as easily apply to jazz. Many of the great jazz guitarists have roots in the blues, and Jim Josselyn is no exception. His album Shape Shifter offers a ...

El Mocambo 1977

Label: Rolling Stones Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: TRACKS: CD 1: Honky Tonk Women; All Down The Line; Hand Of Fate; Route 66; Fool To Cry; Crazy Mama; Mannish Boy; Crackin’ Up; Dance Little Sister; Around And Around; Tumbling Dice. CD 2: Hot Stuff; Star Star; Let’s Spend The Night Together; Worried Life Blues; Little Red Rooster; It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It); Rip This Joint; Brown Sugar; Jumpin’ Jack Flash; Melody; Luxury; Worried About You.

The Black Crowes At The First Security Amphitheater

by C. Michael Bailey
September 11, 2022

The Black Crowes First Security Amphitheater The Black Crowes Present: Shake Your Money Maker Tour Little Rock, AR August 23, 2022 By the end of 2024, all members of the Baby Boom generation (1945 -1964) will have turned 60 years old, switching from middle age to elderly according to people ...

The Rolling Stones: Licked Live In NYC

by Doug Collette
June 25, 2022

Rolling Stones Licked Live In NYC Mercury Studios 2022 It is no little poetic justice, but also a perfectly appropriate gesture of respect on its own terms that, when the Rolling Stones first appear on the Madison Square Garden stage in Licked Live In NYC, vocalist Mick Jagger is ...

June 2022: Constellations

by C. Michael Bailey
June 15, 2022

ChimyTina Constellations La Reserve 2022 ChimyTina is a collision moniker for the duo of bassist Dan “Chimy" Chmeilinski and vocalist Martina DaSilva. They are part of a daring group of singers/bassists perfecting the most musically intimate of performance formats. With the bass as the “harmony" instrument supporting a vocalist, ...