At times, these musicians and others lived on the recording studio premises with the band creating an extremely open and creative collaboration for the album.
Guitarist Mick Taylor, who replaced Brian Jones in the band shortly before Jones died in 1969, is a magnificent blues player who brought an intensity and elegance to these epic tracks. John, the late Billy Preston and pianist Nicky Hopkins. The album pulled together an electric array of talent including Dr. Exile reveals a sprawling mix of genres with undertones of blues, country, R&B and gospel mixed with lyrics that fervently demand for release and liberation. The Stones nixed the influences of a flower-child era and directed their creative process with the edgier, excessive, "more is more2 approach of the `70s. These atypical circumstances surrounding the recording process greatly affected the album’s outcome which was highly reflective and influenced by the sociopolitical turbulence that marked the late `60s and early `70s.
The original 18-track double-album was recorded in various stages at multiple locations, including Olympic Studios in London, Keith Richard’s mansion Nellcote in France, and in Los Angeles where the literal 'Main Street' influenced the album title.
Alternate versions of 'Soul Survivor' and 'Loving Cup' also are a part of the Exile bonus materials. The unearthed tracks which include such titles as 'Plundered My Soul', 'Dancing in the Light', 'Following the River' and 'Pass The Wine' have undergone a unique evolution, while staying true to the essence of the 1972 album. This new compilation features 10 tracks originally recorded during the Exile era and only recently discovered while working on the reissue project. Upon its release more than three decades ago, 'Exile on Main Street' innovatively wove varying musical genres, instruments and even artists into a compelling rhythmic masterpiece. Regarded as one of the greatest albums in Rock 'n' Roll history and one of the most defining of the Stones' catalogue. Half Speed ReMasters HiRes Re-Issue of the classic Stones album.
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