JAGGER, MICK
- CD
BLUES SESSIONS
| LABEL: |
| Sister Morphine 61 |
| SOURCE: |
| early-mid May 1992 Sound Recorders St. Los Angeles: Track 1: Take 4; Track 2: Take 2; Track 3: Take 3, Track 4: Take 3; Track 5: Take 2; Track 6: Take 2; Track 7: Take 4; Track 8: Take 3; Track 9: Take 1; Track 10: Take 3; Track 11: Take 3; Track 12: Take 1; Track 12: Take 1; Alternates & Others: Track 13: Soundcheck; Track 14: Take 5; Track 15: Take 1; Track 16: Take 3; Track 17: Take 1; Track 18: Take 2. |
| FORMAT: |
| 1CDR |
| RUNNING TIME: |
| 59:30 |
| SOUND/SOURCE: |
| Stereo Soundboard |
| PACKAGING: |
| Single Slimline Jewelcase |
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| Blues Sessions front |
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SOUND 9 / PACKAGING 9
/ PERFORMANCE 10
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| TRACK LIST: |
1. Blues With A Feeling, 2. You Better Watch Yourself, 3. Still A Fool, 4. Checking Up On My Baby, 5. One Way Out, 6. Talk To Me Baby, 7. Evil, 8. That Ain't Your Business, 9. Shake '
em On Down, 10. Don't Go No Further, 11. Dream Girl Blues, 12. Forty Days And Forty Nights, 13. Mean
Old World, 14. Blues With A Feeling, 15. One Way Out, 16. Evil, 17. Dream Girl Blues, 18. Forty Days And Forty Nights.
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| REVIEW: |
In middle May 1992 Mick Jagger, while working on his solo album Wandering Spirit, took a brief night out in a Los Angeles club jamming with the Red Devils a blues band that allowed him to go back to his roots. He love them and decided to try to record some blues standards with them. The recordings were supposed to be released but came in the way of Jagger promoting his solo album and have been postponed too many times, an unknown member of the Red Devils, frustrated with continuous delays gave a cassette tape of the session away.
Possibly produced by Rick Rubin these sessions have been focus of many bootlegs, held “A rare collection of fiery blues recorded live in the studio” as written on the cover of The Nature Of My Game, the first CD release of the sessions from Mecca; the album came out also from Rabbit Records as Famous Blues Sessions, containing all takes, even the ones hardly listenable marred by hiss; later Blues With A Feeling by VGP with a selected number of takes before receiving equalizing treatment by Mickboy on Mean Ol’ World by Torn & Frayed, about each release with its own songs order. Now it is time for a Sister Morphine treatment, after last year one track "Checking Up On My Baby" was officially released on The Very Best of Mick Jagger, showing the raw punch and blues style excellence the song offered and increasing fans regret for not having the whole set available officially. This release almost completes the task as the sound output is very good and stereo, great quality is achieved without allowing hiss throughout. Remarkable players are Lester Butler on harp and Gene Taylor on piano and Paul Size and Dave Lee Bartel on tasty guitars that help coloring each number with intense creativity that fits in well with Jagger overstretched vocals that attempt to recreate the mid 50s -60s blues style that was on the original versions of these songs from Little Walter, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elmore James, Willie Dixon-Howlin Wolf, Skip James, Bukka White and Bernard Roth.
This is a great collection that has been given proper treatment by the Sister allowing blues and Stones fans to taste a back to the roots chapter that has been just dreamed for, so far.
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