STICKY FINGERS
Forty years ago today, The Rolling Stones released their seminal ‘70’s album, Sticky Fingers. With landmark songs like “Brown Sugar,†“Sway,†“Wild Horses,†“Bitch,†“Sister Morphine,†“Dead Flowers†and “Moonlight Mile,†Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were reaching their creative and commercial zenith.
The now well-regarded album that followed, 1972’s Exile on Main Street, was grittier and more complex. But the polished songs on this record are arguably just as audacious and even better executed, much like its predecessor Let It Bleed. Interestingly, early versions of songs that would appear on Exile were rehearsed during these sessions. Continue reading “”