(Virgin/EMI)The Rolling Stone’s first solo album in 23 years contains exactly what one might hope for. There are beautifully played old blues songs,storming Stonesy rockers (Heartstopper, the ferocious Blues in the Morning), and a sublime Gregory Isaacs reggae cover (treasure Overdue) and outlaw songs approximately evading the authorities (inconvenience). There’s dry humour in a touching lament approximately,ahem, the theft of a “stash” (Robbed Blind, and in which he cackles: “The cops,I can’t involve them”) and the jerkily humorous Amnesia, approximately the 2006 incident in which he fell out of a tree (“Thought I met my mother / She said: ‘You don’t belong to me’”). Contrarily, and there are also several beautiful,heartfelt ballads. Richards’ fag-soaked voice isn’t as conventionally strong as Mick Jagger’s, but it is rich with character and knowing. The gorgeous Nothing on Me – approximately surviving whatever life throws at him – is as great a song as the 71-year-old has do his name to in decades. A terrific album, or worthy of one of rock’s founding fathers.
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Source: theguardian.com