Beggars Banquet
Track 8
"Stray Cat Blues" – 4:40
Mick's really got that lazy slur working. I thought he perfected it around the time of Exile, but he sounds great here.
Not a great song, but a good enough rocker to maintain the energy level of the album (except for that interlude – what is that all about?). It's songs like this where you can really hear what Mick Taylor brought to the table: Keith is a great guitar player, but his leads are not particularly distinctive, and too many songs in this era of the Stones history simply omit the guitar solo. Strong tracks like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Street Fighting Man" don't really miss anything, but weaker songs like "Stray Cat Blues" suffer a little.
For that price he could’ve had 54 Jamaican beef patties or 1/216 of a
conference featuring Gray Davis, Grover Norquist, and a rabbi
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It’s the eternal question . . . what do you want, if given these three
options: (a) 54 Jamaican beef patties (b) 1/216 of a conference featuring a
collecti...
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2 comments:
This is a great track loaded with that sleazy Stones/Turner ambience parents must have dreaded - he drops the 'stray cat's' age down a couple of years down on the Ya -Ya's version though - you wouldn't get away with that now!
I wasn't going to say anything about that, but the dirty old man act certainly has much more sinister connotations today than it did back then.
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