Expect these new blogs:
1) More on Retromania--but my Reynolds reading was interrupted when I picked up Patti Smith's Just Kids, so I'll probably discuss this first
2) I just finished writing an essay on the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, for a collection of essay on the group's 50th anniversary. I plan to post some outtakes from the essay here.
3) In honor of Mick Jagger's 69th birthday, a post on the cosmic significance of the Stones' cover of Robert Johnson's "Stop Breaking Down" (from Exile). Sneak preview: What do these two songs have in common, aside from being released within one year of the other?
All will be revealed; stay tuned. Until then, ponder this: the Sly song was a No. 1 hit single in 1971.
1) More on Retromania--but my Reynolds reading was interrupted when I picked up Patti Smith's Just Kids, so I'll probably discuss this first
2) I just finished writing an essay on the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, for a collection of essay on the group's 50th anniversary. I plan to post some outtakes from the essay here.
3) In honor of Mick Jagger's 69th birthday, a post on the cosmic significance of the Stones' cover of Robert Johnson's "Stop Breaking Down" (from Exile). Sneak preview: What do these two songs have in common, aside from being released within one year of the other?
All will be revealed; stay tuned. Until then, ponder this: the Sly song was a No. 1 hit single in 1971.
Does the link between "Stop Breaking Down" and "Family Affair" involve Marcus's Mystery Train?
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ReplyDeleteYes, but a later passage where Greil shamelessly recycles his MT argument on Sly, and not from MT itself :0
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