video: [youtu.be]This is the greatest blues guitar solo I have ever heard.The closing one

Cover: Little Red Rooster / Stop Breaking Down
Original: Who's Driving Your Plane / Black Limousine / C***S***** Blues

Prodigal Son, Commit a Crime, Stop Breaking Down. Original: Back of My Hand.

I don't believe it's their best but Break The Spell should nontheless come up somewhere in the list

All tracks mentioned here are great I think adding Confessing the Blues.

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Nikkei
I don't believe it's their best but Break The Spell should nontheless come up somewhere in the list

Yes, especially Ronnie's bass lines are brilliant!

Ronnie's Worried Life Blues is worth mentioning, not only because is a great version but also because Bill, Charlie and Mick Taylor are playing with him.

Covers: 'Two Trains Runnin' [Bootleg], also 'Hillside Blues' [also Bootleg]

Hoodoo Blues .... just plain filthy work ....
Little Rain ... the gentlest most delicate fragile piece of blues ...

And hey lets not forget Stop Breakin' Down
where they took Johnsons country blues inta rock land ......


anyone remember the first time they heard King Bee & Mona ...... STUNNING



ROCKMAN

Lots of em, rare and released, I still go back to Love In Vain from Ya-Yas...pure blues bliss

Bill and Charlie play on some tracks on the Howlin' Wolf London sessions. Great stuff.

Mick's Red Devils jams are worth honorable mention. [www.youtube.com]

Honorable mention: Mick, Jeff Beck, and Booker T. at the White House performing a great cover of Commit a Crime back in 2012.
Jeff plays a couple of smokin' hot sizzlin' solos reminiscent of Hendrix while Mick commands the stage throughout the entire performance....
Overall, preferable to the Blue and Lonesome version imo.




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Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......

I like that version more than the B&L one too.. and on B&L they somehow miss these lyrics:
You mixed my drinks, with a can of Red Devil lye
Then you sit down, watch me, hopin that I might die

sad!

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Taylor1
Stop Breaking Down on Exile is the best Stones' blues album cover. Also great is Cant be Satisfied, Prodigal Son and Little Red Rooster . Mick Tylor's solo on the Ladies and Gentlemen Ft Worth performance of Love In Vain is the greatest blues song solo I have ever heard

Good choices.

Not to forget the Jimmy Reed Tribute Tour by Ronnie Wood and Mick Taylor. Will be released in the near future Ronnie said in the recent interview.

Not pure blues, but what a fun recording!



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Still A Fool from Jagger's place 68 is a gem as well.

I do feel the best stuff is when they add something to the format, someone mentioned YGM from the 75-76 tour, that 2nd part where they turn the beat around for a few seconds with the added texture from Preston is just heaven!

Break The Spell shouldn't work but it does, such an underrated little gem.

Wish I'd Never Met Ya is also a larger than life blues. Great!



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Stones Original Blues:

Spider & the Fly (Paradiso)
Back of My Hand (Bigger Bang)
Stoned (for lyrics alone!)

Stones Blues Covers:

Prodigal Son (Beggars Banquet or YaYas' Box)
Shake Your Hips (Exile)
Little Red Rooster (El Mocambo)

Other amazing Stones' blues:

Mannish Boy (El Mocambo)
Little Rain (Blue & Lonesome)
Hoodoo Blues (B&L)
I Can't Be Satisfied (Milan 2006)
Meet Me in the Bottom (Brixton 1995)
Hide Your Love (Goats Head Soup) - ask Mick Taylor
Hate to See You Go (B&L)
Commit A Crime (B&L)
2120 S. Michigan Ave.

Utter sh!te (sorry, if it's your fav):

I Got the Blues (this gives me the runs)
Down in the Hole (really scraping the bottom of the barrel here)

stonesstein

Kick me like you did before
I can't even feel the pain no more
Rocks Off, 1972

Best blues number in my opinion is "Love in Vain" live, both the version recorded in New York in 1969 ("Ya-Yas Out") and the 1973 version recorded in Belgium ("Bedspring Symphony") The song is a cover of a Robert Johnson classic. What I like about these recordings is how slow and sad they are. The song is a very, very sad one. A man takes the lady he loves to board a train, after which he watches the train disappear down the track. The subject requires all musicians who play the song to feel deep into their sorrow. Jagger hurts when he sings the song. The guitars are mournful. The drumming sets the pace, making sure everybody stays slow and sad.

People often say the Rolling Stones, unlike most rock musicians, are good musicians, and often it's true. It's one reason I like the band so well. These live recordings of "Love in Vain" demonstrate what great musicians the Rolling Stones are.

Live at the Ritz (Bo Diddley and Ronnie Wood) should also be mentioned here. Great stuff.

Love ta hear Mick and Stones havin' a
go at doing a cover of Crawlin' King Snake ..... dirty style ...



ROCKMAN

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stonesstein
Stones Original Blues:

Spider & the Fly (Paradiso)
Back of My Hand (Bigger Bang)
Stoned (for lyrics alone!)

Stones Blues Covers:

Prodigal Son (Beggars Banquet or YaYas' Box)
Shake Your Hips (Exile)
Little Red Rooster (El Mocambo)

Other amazing Stones' blues:

Mannish Boy (El Mocambo)
Little Rain (Blue & Lonesome)
Hoodoo Blues (B&L)
I Can't Be Satisfied (Milan 2006)
Meet Me in the Bottom (Brixton 1995)
Hide Your Love (Goats Head Soup) - ask Mick Taylor
Hate to See You Go (B&L)
Commit A Crime (B&L)
2120 S. Michigan Ave.

Utter sh!te (sorry, if it's your fav):

I Got the Blues (this gives me the runs)
Down in the Hole (really scraping the bottom of the barrel here)

Nice list, stonesstein! But there are still a lot more. You are forgiven over the two "sh*te" songs

I'm a GHOST living in a ghost town

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Rockman
Love ta hear Mick and Stones havin' a
go at doing a cover of Crawlin' King Snake ..... dirty style ...

Yeah, a great John Lee song. But Don't tease me, Rockman, because I feel tempted to get my classic blues CDs out and you'll get "nuts" over "my" list.
I'm already happy with whatever blues songs the Stones come up with. Blue and Lonesome was a long awaited album for me (and so many, surely you too )



I'm a GHOST living in a ghost town

Marriage madness, Mick Taylor with John Mayall. One guitar masterpiece lesson

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Hairball
Honorable mention: Mick, Jeff Beck, and Booker T. at the White House performing a great cover of Commit a Crime back in 2012.
Jeff plays a couple of smokin' hot sizzlin' solos reminiscent of Hendrix while Mick commands the stage throughout the entire performance....
Overall, preferable to the Blue and Lonesome version imo.

Yeah this was great...I remember watching it live while at work on my PC, if memory serves. Just fabulous.