1. How I Wish 1, 2. Struggle 1, 3. Locked Away 1, 4. What She Wanted, 5. Breakin, 6. It Means A Lot 1, 7. Almost Hear You Sigh 1, 8. Almost Hear You Sigh 1, 9. She Put The Mark On Me, 10. Take It So Hard, 11. Struggle.  

This new release from DAC label presents some well known solo outtakes from Keith Richards solo album coupled together with two other songs taken from NBC Saturday Night Live. There is no new song but the sound quality is stunning and we can believe the label's claim on cover that it comes from a master recording. Songs that we know from titles like "Tell Me What You Wanna Hear", "Breakin", "Crazy Mix", "Bloody Red Rooster" and on WLR Solo Works. The collection starts with some early versions , first an instrumental   "How I Wish" that presents massive stereo separation, followed by an over 8 minute version of "Struggle". The openly melancholic "Locked Away" is after, without chorus but still with intact catchy guitar riffs. "What She Wanted" is a short jam that features some basic Richards rhythm figures while "Breakin" is a famous 12.30 outtake that gave origin to another boot title where the song was presented in two slightly different forms. The funky "It Means A Lot" is here shown with a protruding bass that cannot however overcome the vitriolic guitar that with all its angular solos clearly drives the song despite some keyboard intrusions. What follows is a totally different scene musically speaking because the two versions of "Almost Hear You Sigh" were discarded by Richards for his first solo album maybe because they didn't fit its mood (here the melody is driven by the keyboards and guitar fills in) and subsequently used by the Stones on Steel Wheels: they are well known and here presented without any hiss at all. The perfect interaction between keyboards and guitars in leading the song s rhythm is achieved without any doubt on "She Put The Mark On Me" an over 14-minute epic which is about the quintessential Richards signature tune, here is in its best shape with no hiss and no saturation (only complaint is its abrupt ending). The disc terminates with the two live songs performed on Saturday Night Live a few days (5) after the launch of the album.