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Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts and Bill and official release of "Let's go steady again"
Oct 4^th, 2021 at 1:49pm

The Rolling Stones’ producer Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts: “It’s all in the style”

The longtime Stones producer and engineer remembers a “gentleman”

By Chris Kimsey
4th October 2021

https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/interviews/rolling-stones-producer-chris-kimsey...

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The Wick Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 1,066	Re: The Rolling Stones’ producer Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts: “It’s all in the style” Reply #1 - Oct 4^th, 2021 at 2:43pm Thanks. I was waiting for his statements but hadn't seen them. As always, he has some of the best insights about the band. Very interesting comment about Bill as well.
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Re: The Rolling Stones’ producer Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts: “It’s all in the style”
Reply #2 - Oct 4^th, 2021 at 2:50pm

Speaking of Chris Kimsey, his wife Kristi's much bootlegged duet with Keith on 'Let's Go Steady Again' during the 'Emotional Rescue' sessions is finally getting an official download release. (this probably explains why its not on the Tattoo You Deluxe - it was the most obvious candidate for the obligatory Keith 'solo' track). I'll try and track down the other interview I found on facebook (once its up and running again) about how it came about. Ronnie plays bass and sax on the recording and Charlie is on drums.

As I Look Back is a compilation of recently uncovered songs by singer-songwriter Kristi Kimsey that were recorded between 1977 and 1979 in three different countries.

Almost all of the tracks were recorded in 1978 at Longview Farm Studios in Massachusetts with the exception of Let’s Go Steady Again which was recorded in 1979 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau Bahamas and Trying To Get Back To You (Hook End) which was recorded in 1977 by Alvin Lee at his Space Studios in Hook End, UK.

Alvin and Mick Ralphs walked into the studio while I was singing and playing the piano and said ‘Let’s record this now!’

The core musicians for the 9-song EP were: Kristy on vocals & acoustic guitar, Frank Carillo on electric & acoustic guitar, David Donen on drums & percussion, Kevin Keane on bass, Jan Fairchild on keyboards, and Kristi’s husband Chris Kimsey playing percussion – as well as producing the project.

Ollie Clark played lead guitar and Mick Ralphs played guitar and organ on the Hook End version of Trying To Get Back To You.

Everything was cut live with very few overdubs. It was such a thrill to hear my songs come to life with wonderful talented musicians.

All songs on the album were written by Kristi Kimsey herself except for Sweet Elvis, which she co-wrote with Frank Carillo and Chris Kimsey, and Let’s Go Steady Again which was written by James W. Alexander (Abkco Music Inc.). The later features a duet of Kristi with Keith Richards who appears courtesy of Mindless Records LLC.

At Compass Point Studios, Keith invited me to sing
‘Let’s Go Steady Again’ with him, which was a one-take wonder!

Cassette tapes from these sessions were recently tracked down by Chris Kimsey. He has now mastered them for release on his new record label Undercover Music.

As I Look Back is available on iTunes, Amazon Music, Bandcamp, Spotify, and all other major platforms.

https://chriskimsey.com/2021/09/24/album-kristi-kimsey-as-i-look-back/

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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: The Rolling Stones’ producer Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts: “It’s all in the style” Reply #3 - Oct 4^th, 2021 at 3:16pm Here the Spotify link to listen NOW! https://open.spotify.com/track/0D0Ih5F1TR3xKWMjP8mjYT?si=9a933c112cc14e6c
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Re: The Rolling Stones’ producer Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts: “It’s all in the style”
Reply #4 - Oct 4^th, 2021 at 7:55pm

Found the article on the background to the session.

It was posted on Martin Elliott's excellent 'Stones Sessions' facebook page on October 1st (thanks, Martin) :

https://www.facebook.com/StonesSessions

LET'S GO STEADY AGAIN

A classic out-take featuring a duet between Keith Richards and Kristi Kimsey (Chris Kimsey's wife) on this 1959 James Alexander-penned Sam Cooke tune, which was the B-side to Only Sixteen. Neil Sedaka later covered it in 1963 and enjoyed a single chart entry with it.

On one occasion in Nassau, when Keith was working late, he called Kristi in the middle of the night and asked if she could pop down to the studio. Explaining that she might not give her best vocal performance she agreed to meet up the next day. She walked into the studio and listened to the backing track recorded the previous night, with Ron Wood on bass, guitar and saxophone. Then, with Keith, she took to the stage - much to husband Chris Kimsey's surprise - and improvised the duet, not even agreeing which lines they would sing. Kristi recalled that, for some reason, the control room was full of onlookers but together the cut was made. It is a splendid ballad full of soulful ramblings. There is an alternative mix with less guitar (* a - 2.51). Chris was very proud that she did such a fantastic performance on it. “She did really good! I mean, yeah, really really good! I mean, she had no time to learn the song. It was as if they had always sung together. It was quite special.” During the Covid ‘Lockdown’ of 2020/2021 Chris Kimsey and Kristi Kimsey went through their DAT tapes of Kristi’s solo recordings. They prepared a retrospective album of her songs from their stay at Long View Farm, Massachusetts in 1978 where they had been working with Frank Carillo on his album RINGS AROUND THE MOON. Chris was the producer and Kristi featured as a backing vocalist along with Yvonne Elliman. After dinner in the evenings Carillo’s band backed Kristi on her compositions. This mainly constituted her album released in September 2021 AS I LOOK BACK. Chris had the idea to contact Keith and he kindly agreed that her joint recording of Let’s Go Steady could also be included.

The recording is available for streaming and download from the usual sources. Further information:
https://undercover-music.com

personnel :
Keith - lead vocal, guitar, piano
Ronnie - guitar, bass, sax
Charlie - drums
Kristi Kimsey - lead vocal

Recorded at Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, Jan-Feb 1979.

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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts and Bill and official release of "Let's go steady again" Reply #5 - Oct 5^th, 2021 at 10:40am Changed the subject to include the release "Let's go steady again"
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland Unholy Trinity Admin Offline The Stones are back you bastards!!!! Posts: 17,957 Wonderland Gender:	Re: Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts and Bill and official release of "Let's go steady again" Reply #6 - Oct 5^th, 2021 at 8:49pm Check this interview by our friend Marcelo Sonaglioni from Argentina that he made with Chris Kimsey in 2017 https://sonaglioni.wordpress.com/2017/09/09/with-chris-kimsey-producer-extraordi...
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Nora Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 98 alkmaar Holland Gender:	Re: Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts and Bill and official release of "Let's go steady again" Reply #7 - Oct 6^th, 2021 at 2:20am Great song, love it. Jeroen Waiting for Apartment no 9
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Gazza Unholy Trinity Admin Offline Rat Bastid "We piss anywhere, man.." Posts: 13,231 Belfast, UK Gender:	Re: Chris Kimsey on Charlie Watts and Bill and official release of "Let's go steady again" Reply #8 - Oct 6^th, 2021 at 6:43am Mathijs reckons its Bill on bass and Bobby on sax which is probably a decent shout. The sax style certainly sounds more like Bobby than Ronnie to my ears.
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