The Rolling Stones - 1971 - Exile Outtakes
Famously recorded in France while the Stones were in "tax exile" in the basement of Richards' rented Villa Nellcote seaside mansion, "Exile on Main Street" is a long murky trip through traditional blues, country, folk, boogie woogie, rock & roll and everything in between. It's also, in a word, excellent. The history of these sessions is the stuff of legend with varied musical guests, such as Gram Parsons, popping in and out. These demos/alternate versions only magnify the loose, debauched and creative atmosphere at the Villa Nellcote in the summer of 1971.
01 - Shine A Light
02 - Sweet Virginia
03 - Good Time Woman
04 - Loving Cup
05 - Stop Breaking Down
06 - Shake Your Hips
07 - Let It Loose (instrumental)
08 - Sweet Black Angel (instrumental)
09 - I Don't Know The Reason
10 - Highway Child
11 - All Down The Line
12 - I Ain't Lying
13 - Ventilator Blues
14 - Exile On Main Street Blues
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In the spring of 1971, nine years into their existence as the world's greatest rock & roll band, the Rolling Stones learned to their great dismay that they were not only broke but would also have to leave England to avoid paying British income tax. They decamped to the French Riviera -- aptly described by Somerset Maugham as "a sunny place for shady people," where all forms of aberrant behavior had always been tolerated so long as the bill was always paid on time -- and began recording their new album in the basement of Villa Nellcote, Keith Richards' villa in the south of France, on the run from media censure, British drug police (Jagger and Richards already knew the view from behind bars) and the country's onerous tax code. The result was the Stones' only double album, the classic "Exile on Main Street."
Upon the first ten to twenty listens, Exile comes off as a real f@cking mess, and doesn't begin to reveal its true self and the charms within for even longer. But such is the case with most lasting art and Exile is no different. It is a long murky trip through traditional blues, country, folk, boogie woogie, rock & roll and everything in between.
Gritty, grimy, glorious, one of the sleaziest albums of all time, - it doesn't get any Stonesier than this sprawling killer recorded during Keith's heroin days in a castle in the South of France. The perfect soup captures them at their most elegantly wasted, translating their sex-and-drugs lifestyle into some of the raunchiest R&R offset by horns aplenty and pal Gram Parsons, who strongly influenced their flirtations with C&W -- you can almost smell the Jack Daniels coming through.
Rock verite -- basement rock & roll, call it what you will -- it is the scuzziest, dirtiest, most chaotic album release of a great rock band at the height of its powers, driving home ironically detached cynicism with undiminishing arrogance. It is one of the ten greatest rock records of all time. Literally recorded in a basement with a mobile unit, it may have been another calculated statement, but like most of the Stones' messages at the time, this one rang true on many levels. Exile on Main Street is tough, dense music which pertains to its times and to the continuing spirit of rock & roll. The CD improves the clarity of the sound (which some may find equivalent to colorizing a black-and-white movie), but the murky power persists, pulsing with its carnival rhythms. All that, and it's got "Tumbling Dice," too.
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