new rolling stones album

[mopinko]

it's a tribute to the blues, heavy on chicago blues.
folks are excited here, cuz they often just show up at a club in chicago while they are on tour. the blues clubs will at least get a boost that way.
chicago blues can really use the bump.

[Miles Archer]

1. I've never been a huge fan of the songwriting in the Ron Wood years

I was a big fan of Wood in Faces, and it was probably a wise move to not replicate what Mick Taylor brought to the band, but after Some Girls, Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You, I had a hard time caring about most of the band's new material. Their last album, A Bigger Bang, was certainly better than what has to stand as the worst of the Wood era, Dirty Work. Jagger basically said that on Dirty Work, the band hated each others' guts, he was physically not in good shape at all, and even though it caused no small amount of grief between him and Keef, he's glad they didn't tour behind it.

The Wood albums...Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, Undercover, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Bridges To Babylon and A Bigger Bang...I can pull one CD's worth of tracks from all 9 albums that I actually want to listen to.

So it was probably a very smart idea to not overthink this album, to simply go into the studio for a few days and bang out an album's worth of tracks that rely on the band's strengths without straining the muse too much.

Magic only happens when it's ready to happen, you know?

[mopinko]

2. it's a back to the roots kind of thing.

i am not the world's biggest stones fan. i am, however, a huge chicago/roots blues fan. that is what has me excited.
plus, i am a total and complete sucker for anything filmed in chicago, even if it is a quick couple seconds on a sign. stones have a long connection to chicago. i am so happy to see them honor it.

(and maybe this might point them/someone toward rescuing muddy waters' home. it is in danger of the wrecking ball, and no funds are to be found so far to save it. really sad. the heirs still own it, but have no money to do the right thing by it.)

[Miles Archer]

3. Yep...the infamous story of Muddy standing on a ladder painting Chess Studios.

Props to Leonard for putting some cash in his pocket at a time when his records weren't selling, but still...

I saw Buddy Guy live at the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, CA...on a "package tour" with The Fabulous Thunderbirds (Jimmy Vaughn had moved on at this point), Dr. John, and BB King.

The theater, as the name implies, was a round, rotating stage. It had about a dozen aisles that led up to the stage, one with a big red neon star over the dressing room that the performers came down. The split second after the announcer said "BUDDY GUY" he split the freaking sky wide open with the opening notes to "Sweet Home Chicago." He walked down the aisle playing it and ascended to the stage and it was 30 straight minutes of shred.

If you're a Chicago Blues fan you are probably very familiar with the stories of Muddy mentoring Buddy, specifically the one where Buddy was crying about being broke and away from home and Muddy put him in the back seat of his station wagon, gave him a loaf of bread and some bologna to make a sandwich, and slapped him across the face and told him to get his act together.

My favorite all-time Buddy performance has to be "My Time After A While" from "Real Deal Live." Around the 5 minute mark he just starts channeling Muddy and it's pretty freaking inspiring and terrifying all at the same time.

[panader0]

4. I was 13 when this came out in early '64:

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I started researching who the original performers of the songs were and
discovered the blues. I've been a big fan and player ever since.

[mopinko]

5. this got a glowing revue on sound opinions on wbez

https://www.wbez.org/shows/sound-opinions/dc3aadf3-c9cf-45d5-be63-ebb6e0c904d7

they played another cut from it, and i cant wait. gonna go buy the disc.