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The Rolling Stones

Active since: 1962

By the time the Rolling Stones began calling themselves “The World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band” in the late '60s, they had already staked out an impressive claim on the title. As the self-consciously dangerous alternative to the bouncy Mersey beat of the Beatles in the British Invasion, the Stones had pioneered the gritty, hard-driving blues-based rock & roll that came to define hard rock. With assured front man Mick Jagger combining with the guitar talents of Keith Richards and Brian Jones, backed by the solid rhythm section of bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts, the Stones became the breakout band of the British blues scene, eclipsing many others. The Stones had an impressive and prolific output of popular hits during the 1960’s with a string of songs which are considered classics and standards

Rolling Stones And Grateful Dead: Stoking The Eternal Flame

by Doug Collette
February 26, 2023

Notwithstanding the almost clockwork regularity of archival releases (with and without bonus material), upon quick reflection, the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead would not appear to have much in common. But some concentrated contemplation reveals how many traits these bands actually share and that's even apart from their remarkable longevity. With sixty-plus years and counting ...

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.

Donald Fagen: An Essential Top 10 Albums

by Peter Jones
October 9, 2022

Actually, the whole notion of a Donald Fagen Top Ten is tricky. Artists like Chet Baker made well over a hundred albums, whereas in half a century Fagen has only released 13 official studio albums, whether with Steely Dan or under his own name, along with a handful of live sets. The process of selecting the ...

Sisters from Another Jazz Mother? Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
August 16, 2022

Music geekery is at the heart of this week's edition. Over the years, time and time again I have come across songs that left me thinking... “Wait... there's a melody in this chorus or this solo that really reminds me of another song... but I can't quite put my finger on it... “ And every time ...

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 ...

The Rolling Stones: El Mocambo 1977

by Doug Collette
June 4, 2022

The die-cut design of the double-CD cover for the Rolling Stones' El Mocambo 1977 mitigates at least to some degree the borderline amateurish cover art. But reversing the pink and blue covers of the twenty-page booklet inside the dual-fold package achieves a greater end than simply altering the simplistic cosmetics; its extraction also reveals a Paul ...

There Was A Fire: Jews, Music, And The American Dream

by Kyle Simpler
December 17, 2021

There Was A Fire: Jews, Music, And The American Dream Ben Sidran 405 Pages ISBN: # 9780578800691 Nardis Books 2021 Ben Sidran has established himself as a formidable talent in the jazz world as both a pianist and a songwriter. He has recorded almost forty solo albums and ...

Live From Café De Loge, Bar Lume And The Missy Sippy Blues & Roots Club

by Martin Longley
August 18, 2021

Wolf Vanwymeersch Café De Loge Gent, Belgium July 14, 2021 Towards the end of the Gent Jazz festival, there's an intersection with the usually much bigger Gentse Feesten street celebration. In July 2021, this hedonistic explosion was defused, but several venues presented intimate shows on the same dates, ...

The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang: Live on Copacabana Beach DVD/CD

by Doug Collette
July 17, 2021

Rolling Stones A Bigger Bang: Live on Copacabana Beach UME/Mercury Studios/Rolling Stones Records 2021 Rolling Stones concerts have been synonymous with spectacle since the Seventies, but never more so than in recent years, especially in the case of their free concerts as documented on A Bigger Bang: Live on Copacabana Beach. ...