RON WOOD/I'VE GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO K 56065 (-74) UK

I wanted this long before I got a chance to hear it. Supergroups and odd collaborations always tickles me and here's a surplus of such delights. Ron Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Rod Stewart, George Harrison and Ian McLagan all on the same original album. And it's not only temporary guest appearances. Harrison plays and sings on one track - "Far East Man" - (uncredited), but apart from that it's common sessions. At the time it was made The Faces was on the edge of break-up and Wood would replace Taylor in Stones a year later. So it's a transition album for sure. Two of the tracks are original Jagger/Richards compositions, "Far East Man" (wich also occured in another version on GH:s "Dark Horse LP) is by Harrison/Wood and "I Can Feel The Fire" by Jagger/Wood. The music is a mix of contemporary Faces and Stones and recorded in Woods basement studio it comes through as very relaxed. Some of it sounds surprisingly ordinary, but a few tracks stands out - e.g. "I Can Feel The Fire" with Jaggers lead vocals could have placed on any seventies Stones album. First US on WB (BS 2819), also early issues Japan (P-8505W) and Germany (WB 56065). Premiere UK with label as shown here, thin matt cover and picture/credit insert. (RÅ*)(SXÅH*)