After getting praise for his first solo album - the 1974 "Monkey Grip" - which also sold quite ok, this follow-up mostly recieved thumbs down from critics and didn't manage well in the shops. With such participants it's kind of a mystery it didn't do better. Backing consisting of Ronnie Wood, Nicky Hopkins, Al Kooper, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Joe Walsh, Jim Keltner and Dallas Taylor among others and the whole thing overseen by Record Plant legend Gary Kellgren. I'm listening now for the first time and what I get is not all bad. He's not a great singer, but that's a shortfall he shares with a couple of hundred or so other rock vocalists. To go on with the negative - a couple of the songs sound way too perky and/or overproduced for my taste. But there are good moments too. The soft reggae-rock "Soul Satisfying" is smooth listening, "Every Sixty Seconds" a blues with some very nice guitar work, "Wine And Wimmen" quite pushy rock and "No More Foolin" dirty blues. Also on the positive side - the mixes and audio are tophole. Apart from maybe "No More Foolin" this is far from Rolling Stones, but partly up to par anyway and I guess whatever likes it get it's a must in any serious Stones collection. Issued and reissued pretty much all over the world on vinyl and/or CD through the years, also US cassette. US 2006 CD on Castle Music came with six bonus tracks. Premiere UK had label as shown here in a glossy cover with glossy picture/lyric/credit inner. (RÅ)
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