Talk Is Cheap

Occupation

  • Keith Richards: guitar, vocals, percussion
  • Waddy Wachtel: Guitar
  • Steve Jordan: drums, backing vocals, percussion
  • Charley Drayton: bass, drums, backing vocals
  • Ivan Neville: keyboard, piano
  • Bernie Worrell: Organ, Clavinet
  • Sarah Dash: backing vocals
  • Stanley " Buckwheat " Dural: accordion
  • Bobby Keys: Saxophone
  • And other

Talk Is Cheap is the first solo album of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards. It was released on 3 October 1988 on Virgin Records. His backing band was called X - Pensive Winos.

Genesis

In 1987 the Rolling Stones were in a great crisis. The differences between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were at a new peak. Mick Jagger devoted himself in the 1980s, mainly his solo career in 1987, he released his second solo album, Primitive Cool. Keith Richards then decided to also release an album without the Rolling Stones. Most members of his backing band Pensive Winos X - he already knew of the work on the Chuck Berry documentary Hail! Hail! Rock ' n' Roll.

Talk Is Cheap was recorded at Air Studios in Montserrat ( Caribbean) and at Le Studio in Montreal ( Canada). Richards wrote the pieces together with drummer Steve Jordan and produced the album with this.

After the release the band went on tour of eleven cities in the United States. She played almost exclusively his own pieces.

Music style

Stylistically, it is not possible to classify the album. I Could Have Stood You Up (with the former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor as a guest) is classic rock 'n ' roll, other songs reflect Richard's penchant for reggae resist. The title All have a very groovy, intricate rhythm, also for the Richards guitar playing is known. Keith Richards calls that " the roll " in rock music again needs to get more weight: " Everyone talks about rock these days; The problem is, they forget the roll. "

The title You Do not Move Me, is understood because of various expressions in the text that can be related to Mick Jagger as a settlement with Richards ', mica twin '.

Singles

Take It So Hard, Make No Mistake ( with Sarah Dash as a singing partner ) and Struggle ( as a promo - CD) were released as singles.

Title list

All pieces were written by Keith Richards and Steve Jordan.

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