Happy 75th to Keith Richards. Here is a bit about him via his ballad, “Coming Down Again,” from Goat’s Head Soup, excerpted from my book, Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones. It is missing some of the formatting and footnotes, so grab yourself a copy of the book. Coming Down …
Happy 75th Keith. Excerpt from Rocks Off: “Coming Down Again.” Read More »
“Good Time Woman,” one of the outtakes included in the expanded Exile On Main St. box set, just came up today on shuffle in my car. It is the most complete of a number of iterations, a handful of recorded versions familiar to Stones fans from bootlegs that led to “Tumbling Dice,. Chris Kimsey explained to …
My uncle, a mentor, had been murdered the day before and I was still stunned, but the waves of emotion were beginning to boil up and seep through in that state of shock when I finally went to see Aretha Franklin perform for the first time, in 2009. My wife and I had gotten tickets …
I was on a treadmill circa 2002 when this song first punched me in the gut. When Tom Waits came to the last bridge and verse of “Take It With Me,” it took the wind out me and I had to stop running. Children are playing at the end of the day Strangers are singing …