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Nice!

Thanks for the link.
Look forward to the full album.

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSFsJ1jLLKVNczGBri5ET9n6XuVHvD5o7zr1Y1PdcByylekGRNQ

Thanks, Soldatti

First impression - musically it's quite lovely, but dragged down by a pretty horrible over the top lead vocal.

Mick didnt record his vocal with the rest of the band, but added an overdub from his studio in France via pro-tools. It shows, unfortunately. I guess there was no producer on hand to rein in those vocal histrionics. It's really not in keeping with the other performances on the record. Otherwise, it's a pretty good cover version which bodes well for the rest of the album.

See what ya mean, Gazza! Guess he can't help himself!

But I like it.

Thanks Soldatti!! :willya

Gazza wrote on Mar 20^th, 2011 at 12:06pm:

could be lower in the mix... less drawn out. oh well, i'm no record producer... i just play one here!

It sounds PERFECT to me! Thanks for posting it, Saldatti.

I like it....nice harp outro too......tough to judge the mix until ya play er loud on a good stereo so we'll see....I'm really looking forward to the album with fingers crossed.

They sure don't sound like a teenagers band , but anyway it's better than nothing !

nice groove, not as raucous as dylans take..this week the fortieth ann of him cutting it too!!

A new recording by The Glimmers is all good - even if they were on different continents.

Like that signature little KR flourish at the end of 'Watching The River Flow'.

And Bill recording with them again? Who'd a thunk.
Ever smoove, of course.

The Japanese distributor of 'Boogie 4 Stu' has posted a YouTube clip with snippets of the album tracks - www.wardrecords.com

Listen for the Ronnie & Keith vocals on 'Worried Life Blues'.

There's also a nice note posted from Charlie, Ronnie and the others sending their best wishes to everyone in Japan.

It's ok. Seems kind of par for the course. Like you had 4 guys all cut something and then it got pasted together. Maybe if they were all in the same place,you know like a band. It would probably sound better. :interestingstuffronnie

Sounds very Bigger Bangish. We ain't going out like this.

Some Guy wrote on Mar 21^st, 2011 at 8:30am:

Sounds very Bigger Bangish. We ain't going out like this.

I wish Don Was....wasn't...................

too mannered and not enough UMPH.....Charlie with those damn bundled wacker sticks Mick too broad and yet again not guitar driven..let alone the lack of prominent piano.

pretty weak versus their best

This is Charlie and Mick's show. Not a lot of guitar on first listen but it sure does swing. Has an old time and upbeat feel to it. I like Keef's twangy lead mixed in with the horns and Ronnie is in there too. I noticed them on second listen with headphones. Nice harp to play the song out with the drums and horns.

For me, this feels alive. I like it. You can dance to it too. Grab a woman and have a twirl.

Steel Wheels wrote on Mar 21^st, 2011 at 7:02pm:

makes me feel like grabbin a bottle o jack and swiggin it...........

gimmekeef wrote on Mar 21^st, 2011 at 10:52am:

Some Guy wrote on Mar 21^st, 2011 at 8:30am:

Sounds very Bigger Bangish. We ain't going out like this.

I wish Don Was....wasn't...................

Agree with Gazza but I still love it because it has that unique Stones stamp on it. If any one of them did this on their own, it would sound vastly different. It does seem like a pasted job though which is incredibly annoying because these guys who are all loaded can't get together and record a song for someone as important as Ian Stewart. Instead of guys I should say Mick and Keith. It strikes me less as a Bigger Bang and more like the sound on Stripped.

Tis better than nought.

I like it - though Jagger sounds older than Dylan.

andrews27 wrote on Mar 26^th, 2011 at 8:44am:

I like it - though Jagger sounds older than Dylan.

I'll take Jagger's over the top vocals over Dylan's nails on a chalkboard voice anyday. :willya

Thanks Soldatti!

Yes, vocals a little high on the mix indeed, but I like it, yes I do 8-)

Well, Bill German uploaded another tr4ack from this CD that I'm sure we all gonna buy... don't we?

"Worried Life Blues" (with Keith and Ronnie sharing lead vocals; Charlie on drums)

http://www.beggarsbanquetonline.com/news.htm

WOW

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 9:35pm:

Wow indeed! 8-)
Wouldn't a Stones full blues album be just...
I mean Aerosmith did it. Why the hell not?

Keef sounds good on Worried life Blues! good vocals unlike Ronnie..Sadly Woody 's part on accoustic slide is very low in the mix :aimama

TRIBUTE TO PAL GETS KEITH RICHARDS AND MICK JAGGER TOGETHER

Monday April 4,2011
By Daily Express Reporter

Keith Richards took a swipe at Sir Mick Jagger in
his explosive memoirs

JUST months after Keith Richards took a swipe at Sir Mick Jagger in his explosive memoirs, the pair have been reunited on a new tribute album to their late band mate.

The duo joined forces with the rest of The Rolling Stones in honour of Ian Stewart who co-founded the group in 1962.

Manager Andrew Loog Oldham axed Stewart from the stage line-up in 1963 but he remained on board as their road manager and pianist on recordings until his death in 1985.

Now Jagger and Richards, both 67, have teamed up with fellow Stones Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former bassist Bill Wyman to record a version of Bob Dylan’s 'Watching The River Flow' on a new charity album, 'Boogie 4 Stu', a tribute to the Scot.

Jagger and Richards contributed their respective parts on different continents, however.

“Charlie and Ronnie were already playing on the album and then Keith recorded his parts in New York, including 'Watching The River Flow',” we’re told. “This was emailed to Mick in France and he sent it back with a vocal and harmonica track. Bill also put the bassline on.”

Speculation has been rife about relations between Mick and Keith of late following the much-publicised release of the latter’s autobiography Life last year. The guitarist highlighted old tensions between the pair, at one stage describing the singer as “unbearable” and mocking the size of his manhood.

Richards has since insisted the pair are closer than ever, despite the recent controversy.

The band’s last studio album was recorded back in 2005, and a much speculated upon world tour marking their 50th anniversary has yet to be confirmed.

Stewart died aged 47 from a heart attack. While his burly appearance was considered out of step with the rest of the band by Loog Oldham back in the early Sixties, he remained close to the Stones for the rest of his life, mischievously referring to them as his “little three-chord wonders”.

Daily Express

Together, but separately...

Ginda wrote on Apr 5^th, 2011 at 11:15am:

"Richards has since insisted the pair are closer than ever, despite the recent controversy."

If only Mick's todger was that size we wouldn't have a problem. :paristhong

left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 5^th, 2011 at 7:19am:

Stewart died aged 47 from a heart attack. While his burly appearance was considered out of step with the rest of the band by Loog Oldham back in the early Sixties, he remained close to the Stones for the rest of his life, mischievously referring to them as his “little three-chord wonders”.

And "you little shower of shit." :smilestu

left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 6^th, 2011 at 7:01am:

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f256/leftshoeshuffle/Boogie%20For%20Stu/B4S.jpg

Full album is streaming here

Great stuff...

Many thanks. That's not one to listen to while driving - afraid I'd pull a Del Griffith and have a wreck. [smiley=wink.gif] I couldn't help but think what a fine job Elvis could have done on Lonely Avenue.

Worried Life Blues is pretty sweet too. Keith and Ronnie trading vocals sounds great. Their respective whiskey and cigarette soaked voices play well on that tune. And just hearing the whole band together again on Watching the River Flow is brilliant! I'm reminded of our dear friend Maxlugar always praising Bill's "little hands that could". All I can do is smile, mix another cocktail, and nod in drunken solidarity.

Jeesh, you'd think that they could get it into their heads that this is the kind of record that they should record themselves as a band! I'd wager my bottom dollar that Mick is the one that has little interest in doing a mature honest to goodness Stones' album without all the concern about being so smitten by the flavor of the month crap that he tends to emulate. Hey Mick, sometimes it's good to look back!!

Riffy

Sixth Stone gets his place in history

Ian Stewart’s face didn’t fit the band’s image but his contribution to their success is at last being celebrated, says Maureen Paton

This one's for Stu: Ian Stewart (front row, left) was deemed too old and too square for the Stones

By Maureen Paton 06 Apr 2011

He was a member of the coolest band in the world, yet he was never scared to be square. It’s one of life’s great ironies that those card-carrying rock and roll outlaws, the Rolling Stones, would have got nowhere without the “vision”, as Keith Richards puts it, of the unlikely looking Sixth Stone. The Fife-born Ian Stewart was not your usual skinny, pouting rock star but a stocky, Neanderthal-jawed, one-time ICI shipping clerk in cardigans, polo shirts and Hush Puppies who nailed down brilliant boogie-woogie piano and became the group’s musical conscience and reality check. Always known as Stu, he was one for golf rather than groupies, a real-ale enthusiast and a rhythm and blues purist with a jazz background and a no-nonsense, headmasterly air who joshingly put the other Stones in their place as “three-chord wonders”. The epitome of the musician’s musician, he played on every Stones album, with the exception of Beggars Banquet, from 1964 to the 1986 Dirty Work, released the year after his death.

Ian Stewart died at the age of 47 in December 1985 from a heart attack while waiting to be examined for breathing difficulties by a Harley Street doctor. It’s another irony that the unstoned Stewart, despite being drug-free through all the band’s well-documented years of debauchery, should die young. According to Brian Jones’s replacement, Mick Taylor: “Stu looked on it [drug-taking] as a load of silliness.” Stewart’s lifestyle mistake was a much more mundane one, according to Ben Waters, the man who is now effectively his musical heir on the rhythm and blues circuit: “By all accounts, Stu had a terrible diet — that’s what let him down.”

Stewart was closest to his fellow hardcore jazz nut Charlie Watts and Keith Richards, who admired his ability to be his own man as much as his musicianship. And Richards’s recent memoir Life describes the “shattering” news of Stewart’s death as “the hardest hit I had ever had, apart from my son [Tara] dying [of cot death].” Two months later, in February 1986, the Stones played a tribute gig with Stewart’s other band, Rocket 88, at London’s 100 Club, and in 1989 they asked for his name to be included when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

But Stewart’s chequered story proves the marketing power of the manager to demote someone whose face didn’t fit the image: such enthusiastic blueshounds as the young Rolling Stones were no different in this respect from the manufactured pretty-boy bands of today. In 1963, a year after Stewart had booked the band’s first rehearsal in a Soho pub, the Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, decided to drop the Scotsman from the line-up. With a large undershot jaw, the result of a childhood illness, Stewart was judged too ugly and, with four years’ advantage on Mick Jagger, too old for a band that was being marketed as the leather-clad, bad-boy alternative to the besuited Beatles.

But instead of flouncing out, the rock-steady Sixth Stone decided to stay on to become a session musician and road manager in his own band. The new role enabled the image-averse Stewart to avoid all the hassle of the spotlight while hanging on to his cherished role as musical guru, a shrewd strategy from the man who never wanted the baggage of stardom.

It has taken just over 25 years since Stewart’s death for an album tribute to emerge to this backroom powerhouse, put together by another boogie-woogie man from a younger generation. The 37-year-old Ben Waters was just eight when he saw Stewart play live at a West Country gig arranged by his aunt and uncle, Eva and Ray Harvey, the parents of the singer PJ Harvey and old friends of Stewart’s. Waters, a fan of Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis from childhood, became obsessed with imitating Stewart’s style, so much so that he was asked to play piano in Rocket 88 after his death.

“A lot of pianists are quite staccato,” says Waters, “but Stu had a very rolling, full sound. That’s why he was so good in bands, because he brought it all together, and the Stones were always at their best when he played with them.”

As Mick Jagger put it: “When Stu was playing, the band swung a lot harder than when he wasn’t.”

Towards the end of last year, Waters decided to try to fulfil his long-held dream of making an album in memory of Stewart. In what he calls “a combination of luck and coincidence” within the tight-knit world of rhythm and blues enthusiasts, he persuaded the Stones to guest-star on Boogie 4 Stu (a title borrowed from a track Stewart played on for the Led Zeppelin album Physical Graffiti) alongside Waters’s cousin P J Harvey, jazz saxophonists Willy and Alex Garnett and Don Weller and 76-year-old blues shouter Hamish Maxwell.

Although Waters, who has worked with Jagger’s brother Chris for years, had played piano for parties at Mick and Jerry Hall’s Richmond house, he had a much closer connection with Charlie Watts, who plays drums in his band, the ABC&D of Boogie Woogie. “Charlie came on board and then told me, 'You’ve got to ask Keith too’,”says Waters, recalling how he went on to recruit Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman and Mick Jagger in what became a kind of domino effect.

Jools Holland, Waters’s long-term mentor who also guests on the album, offered his Deptford recording studio free of charge, although Waters had to fly to New York with the hard drive to record Richards’s guitar and vocals while Jagger emailed back his contribution – characteristically snarling vocals and harmonica on Bob Dylan’s Watching the River Flow – from the South of France. With proceeds going to the British Heart Foundation, the album can boast the first Wyman recording with his former fellow Stones since 1992 — something that perhaps only the ghost of Ian Stewart could have pulled off. As Wyman acknowledged in a London concert last month to launch the album: “We wouldn’t go on stage until Stu said, 'OK, you shower of shits, you’re on’.”

There was, Waters says, a potentially sticky moment when Richards wanted to do the vocals on the same song, Worried Life Blues, that Wood had just recorded. “So I asked Keith how he would feel if he and Ronnie alternated verses. And Keith said, 'Fine’.”

The album has clearly been a labour of love for Waters, who looks a little like his role model and is equally happy to chase the music rather than the fame. “Stu was so grounded that he probably propelled the band to a higher level, because they could always rely on him.” Which is not a bad epitaph for anyone.

'Boogie 4 Stu' is released on April 11 by Eagle Records

The Telegraph

Love 'Roomin' House Boogie'.
The Riff riffin' and Bill laying down the bottom, Anno Domini 2011.

Good call on 'Lonely Avenue', ginda.
PJ Harvey's take is smoky and subtle, but The King - with some help from The Jordanaires/Sweet Inspirations - would've been full-on revelatin'...

:smilestu

Riffhard wrote on Apr 7^th, 2011 at 12:00am:

It's a genuine pleasure to say - Riffy, I agree with you! I'll have a Jack & Coke, please.

left shoe shuffle wrote on Apr 7^th, 2011 at 8:07am:

Yessir. I've got to say, it's a pleasure to be able to discuss current Stones musical activity. Bless Ben Waters for making it possible and thank you (and others) for making these clips available.

Riffhard wrote on Apr 7^th, 2011 at 12:00am:

Riffy I agree with you. It isn't looking back. Just be what you are. The Stones are a blues based band. What's wrong with making a blues album? Mick, You can do it!

Mick certainly CAN do it. I'm afraid the B4S is as close as we're going to get. Doesn't hurt to hope though.

Scottish Rolling Stone who gathered lots of star friends

MARK SMITH
8 Apr 2011

WITH his boxer’s chin and golfer’s cardigans, Ian Stewart certainly didn’t look like a member of The Rolling Stones, but he was – and now the contribution the Scot made to the band is being recognised in a new tribute album.

Stewart was born in Pittenweem, Fife, and died in 1985. He the Stones after answering an advert in a music magazine in 1962 but was sacked the following year when a new manager decided he did not have the right look.

Instead of walking away, Stewart, who was a talented pianist, became the band’s roadie and driver but still played on their records and on tour. He also remained close to Mick Jagger and the other Stones who always considered him part of the group.

Keith Richards said of him: “To me The Rolling Stones are his band. Without his knowledge and organisation,we’d be nowhere.”

Now, 25 years after Stewart collapsed and died when he was only 47, pianist Ben Waters has produced the 'Boogie 4 Stu' album to honour Stewart.

The album, which features new recordings by all the Stones, including Bill Wyman who hasn’t recorded with his former colleagues since 1992, started out as a small charity project to raise money for the British Heart Foundation but grew and grew.

Waters said: “When I told Charlie Watts I was going to record the album, he asked to be on it. I asked Jools Holland if I could hire his studio. He said I could have it for free and that he would like to play on the album too, as Ian was a mate.

“Letters to other friends and former colleagues of Stu outlining the project elicited the simple response, Where do we need to be and when?”

Waters said everyone involved in the 'Boogie 4 Stu' album knew Stewart really well. “I felt many music fans needed an introduction to the man and his music. To some, he was a roadie that played a bit of piano, to his friends and fans the opposite was true.”

Stewart’s wife, Cynthia Stewart Dillane, said the Stones liked her husband because he was always honest with them. He didn’t, for example, like 'Sympathy for the Devil' and thought their Some Girls sessions in 1977 sounded like Status Quo.

“Stu always told the truth,” said Cynthia. “He was the one person who would call it as he saw it. A rare thing around the Stones, I can tell you.”

Stewart came from an unlikely rock background. A keen golfer, he was born in the East Neuk of Fife but raised in Surrey. He had been discharged from the RAF for health reasons and was working at ICI when he saw an advert in Jazz News looking for musicians to start a new group. Jagger and Richards were recruited later.

About a year later, however, he was ditched by new manager Andrew Loog Oldham but never seemed to resent it. In an interview in 1984, he said “I wouldn’t really complain too much about it. It was the right thing to do at the time.”

A year after that interview, Stewart, who did not live the sex and drugs rock lifestyle, died of a heart attack his doctor’s waiting room.

Waters hopes the album will highlight Stewart’s talent. Among many others, Stewart also played with Led Zeppelin and had his own band Rocket 88. The album is released on Monday.

Herald Scotland

:smilestu

I didn't buy Keith's book but I will buy Boogie 4 Stu. I hope sales are brisk on Monday and the days to follow.

Mick n Keith both sounded GOOD.

thanks for the link Voodoo 8-)

now to- Boogie 4 Stu...... :areyoufuckingserious

I Love it And will buy several copies when it comes out...can't wait. I love Boogie Woogie .................This album is great and with Stones on it its.... Great Great. This will this years Christmas Gifts,,,,,,,,,,,,
Big Joe Turner Would Be Happy.....Hard to have the blues long listening to this music.............
Stu was apparently a great guy, his influence was great........... it's about time.............................I was a Stu fan :sad...And now I am a bigger STU Fan :smilestu
Bring It On Home To Me Yes JC I love it
This Music makes me either want to Drink :booze Fight :wtf1 or you know :aimama !

Thanks again for posting the stream. Good stuff. Can't wait to get the album. :areyoufuckingserious

Now I've got air guitar & drums down pat, but this Boogie 4 Stu air piano is a challenge. Seriously, can anyone here listen to it and keep your feet and hands still?

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