Artist’s Choice: Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones Rock/Blues CD

Track Listing
1. Pt. 1 – (Part 1) Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag
2. I’m Still in Love With You
3. I Can’t Turn You Loose
4. Still a Fool
5. 32-20 Blues
6. C’mon Everybody
7. The Girl Can’t Help It
8. Flamingo
9. Jail Bait
10. If You Want Me to Stay
11. In a Dis a Time
12. By Your Side
13. Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do)
14. This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
15. You Shook Me
16. I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times

Album Notes
Features favorite songs by various artists chosen by members of The Rolling Stones.Includes liner notes by The Rolling Stones.This is part of Virgin Records “Artist’s Choice” series.Released as part of Hear Music’s ongoing Artist’s Choice series, where major artists pick “the music that matters to them,” the 2003 compilation Artist’s Choice: Rolling Stones finds Mick, Keith, Charlie, and Ronnie running through 16 recordings of their favorite songs by other artists. It should come as no surprise that blues, R&B, soul, old-time rock & roll and reggae with a hint of funk form the core of the collection, since that’s what’s at the root of the Stones. In fact, the only left-field choices are Mick’s pick of Sade’s “By Your Side” and Ronnie hauling out the Beach Boys’ “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” at the end of the record. But even if this is a bit predictable, it is a good selection of songs — hard to go wrong with Robert Johnson, Otis Redding, Eddie Cochran, Andre Williams, Sly & the Family Stone, the Isley Brothers, and (of course) Muddy Waters, after all — and the track-by-track commentary by the Stones is entertaining and lively (no more so when Keith assumes the still-alive Andre Williams is dead and, if he’s not, “he’s probably doing time”). You could do far worse with your money. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine