Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: November-December 2004, March-April
& June 2005
Recording locations: La
Fourchette, Posé sur Cisse, France & Ocean Way Recording Studios,
Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don
Was & The Glimmer
Twins Chief
engineer: Krish
Sharma
Mixer: Jack
Joseph Puig Performed onstage: 2006
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Keith Richards
Acoustic guitars: Keith Richards
Slide acoustic guitar: Mick Jagger
Pianos: Keith Richards & Don Was Don Was
Lead vocal: Keith Richards
Backing vocals: Keith Richards & Mick Jagger
TrackTalk
I like to surprise people. Hey, I grew up with (that Hoagy Carmichael/Cole Porter) thing, man! My mother played me jazz and all the standards. That stuff just drips off of me. My mother played me Sarah Vaughan, Billy Eckstine, Ellla Fitgerald, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie... It's just that rock and roll suddenly came along and totally diverted my attention.
It's about Patti, but then it has that universal
thing going on. I thought: There can't be anybody in the world who hasn't
had this feeling. It was nice to keep it short - just three verses.
I was flopped out on the couch with a drink and my acoustic guitar. I ended
up playing piano on it, too.
Yeah there's some deep stuff (on the album)
but at the same time, humor is absolutely important to a rock and roll
record. When you think about the first rock and roll records, you hear
Great Balls of Fire and Poison Ivy and Along Came Jones
and a lot of Chuck Berry, and there's a lot of humor in it. And it has
to sort of balance out. I mean, I really hate the dirges. I like it better
to make you laugh in one line and make you cry in the next.