Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2016 19:29:06 GMT
You might argue that the Rolling Stones have long been a gimlet-eyed heritage operation, with Messrs Jagger, Richards, Watts and Wood shareholders in a profitable legend that pumps out product and tours to a moneyed audience of heavily co-invested baby boomers willing to shore up that giant mouth logo with their cash. The zeitgeist largely goes on elsewhere.
Occasionally, though, the Stones put something truly electrifying to all comers: Keith Richards’s 2010 autobiography, for instance, or this unexpected album of blues covers, recorded over a three-day period in December 2015.
If you’re wavering on track one – a good-time cover of Just Your Fool, originally popularised by harmonica player Little Walter, a mainstay of this album – then track two, Howlin’ Wolf’s Commit a Crime, seals the deal. In comes the disreputable guitar of Keith Richards, circling like a jackal. It’s not hard to imagine Charlie Watts cranking out this strutting beat with a sly grin.
