Side One: Say It s Not You, 2. Don t, 3. Apartment No. 9, 4. Sing Me Back Home, 5. Oh What A Feeling, 6. All I Have To Do Is Dream, 7. Whola Lotta Shakin Going On

Side Two: 1. Blue Monday, 2. Nearness Of You, 3. She Still Comes Around, 4. Worried Life Blues, 5. Say It s Not You, 6. Apartment No.9.

This vinyl release presents yet another work dedicated to the soul of the Stones, this time bringing over his piano demos recorded at Long View Farm in 1981 and at Toronto in 1977, two very different circumstances where Keith Richards entered the studio. In 1977 he was in Toronto, just a week after the El Mocambo club gigs with the Stones while the Long View Farm visit was his way to test the studio where the Stones would rehearse for their 1981 US Tour. In both circumstances the tunes played presents the melancholic and soft side of the rocker interpreting classic tunes which seem so distant from anything he recorded with the Stones to puzzle purists, from Hoagy Carmichael s Nearness Of You to Glenn Sutton s She Still Comes Around, Merle Haggard Sing Me Back Home and George Jones Apartment No.9 they cover many of the deep emotions of a lone player.   The songs are played by Richards mostly on piano (hence the title of this album) with elementary   but effective playing and great vulnerability revealed by the vocals;  they all portray a sense of loneliness and deep regret which could be coming from his personal life experiences of the times. This release comes from an unnamed label, there is no trace of a name even on the disc matrix and, most disturbing, no way to discern Side A to Side B except listening; anyway these tracks have been bootlegged many times and lots of collectors have this stuff from Unknown Dreams onwards, so this release could appeal just to newcomers or die hard collectors. It is pressed on a good looking orange or white vinyl album wrapped in a jacket with Keith Richards classic early 80s close up photo on front cover and the famous shot with Pope Declares: Keith Richards Is God on the back. The album is dedicated to the memory of Johnny Thunders, Gram Parsons and Nikki Sudden