Even though I really love some of Mick Jagger´s solorecordings, it always strikes me that the Stones would have done this far better. There is one exception though; Evening Gown from Wandering Spirit. I think it is a perfect recording of a beautiful song. The band (the piano, the acoustic guitar, the steelguitar and drums) sounds just great, and Jagger´s singing is (once again) unique.

Cheers,
Gunnar

Agree - must be one of the most beautiful country songs ever written and recorded.

Agreed. I think it is one of the best songs recorded by anyone in the Stones over the past 20 years. Could have worked well as a Stones song but it sounds just fine the way it is. Hope there are a few country songs on the new album.

The whole wandering spirit album should have been made by the Stones, but its hard to know how much better they would make it. Its Mick Jaggers best solo moment and it he can never do it again. He is today a pathetic man. The Webster Hall 93 dvd shows a band with Mick Jagger that you want the Stones to be there with him!?!

Great new version with Jerry Lee Lewis.

johang what the heck are you saying,blak-bink-puke,jagger is pathetic,he has been stellar on the bigger bang tour.

john scialfa

RIGHT ON! Mick has been incredible on this tour. Voice is in fine form, great moves, and seems to really be enjoying himself!

The negetivity here is pathetic!

I was just thinking tonight about the "golden period" that songwriters or other artists go through. There is a time, inthe youth when the artists is still hungry, still impressionable, still wants badly to make his mark, when all gels and coincides. At this time they create like never before or again. Not yet too knowledgeable, still staryyeyed, yet already poised. Lennon and McCartney, Jagger/Richards, Elton, Prince, Dylan, Bowie all went through this period. 'Then I was thinking about songwriters who still write truly great songs late in life and career. Becasue it really doesn't happen much anymore. I have seen footage of Jagger,of Paul McC and of Elton talking about this. Steven Sondheim talking about it. That they couild never do it again.

But Jagger still manages to write some truly beautiful songs at this time. "Eevening Gown is one of them.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

What you express, I use to call "Living in their own shadow", CD.
And you have to be born about 1940-45 to make such a success.
Since the 70s the market has become too huge for
breaktrus of that volume. Plus they had the 'opportuinty'
to protest against a bigotte and cemented, patriarch, bourgeoise,
mediocracy, paranoic society.. Of course the Western World still
listens to these name calling; yet its much more complex,
where our new Minister Of State Finances wears a little
pony tail and wears a ring in his left ear.

great