Shane’s Rock Challenge: MICK JAGGER with THE RED DEVILS – 1991 – Blues Sessions Bootleg

Shane’s Rock Challenge: MICK JAGGER with THE RED DEVILS – 1991 – Blues Sessions Bootleg
By Shane Pinnegar
7.5/10

It was 1992, The Stones were at loggerheads again, and Mick Jagger wanted to cut a record. On the recommendation of uber-producer Rick Rubin Jagger enlisted a group of New Orleans reprobates called The Red Devils, who had a reputation for walking on the wildside, and they laid down thirteen raw and dirty old blues tracks in about the same number of hours, taking no more than a few takes at each.

Then… he shelved the tapes, never to be seen or heard again.

The surviving members of the band insist that they were under the impression the recordings were to be for Jagger’s next album, but a year or so later Wandering Spirit hit the shelves and these tapes weren’t to be made public, apart from one track – Checkin’ Up On My Baby – making The Very Best Of Mick Jagger compilation a couple of years later.

It’s a shame – the recordings are raw as hell and all the better for it, throbbing and pulsing with authenticity and grit. THIS is what Jagger should have done. Even more so, THIS is what The Stones should have done – then or now. Get back to their roots and remember why they did this to start with.

This is readily findable online and well worth investigating to be reminded what a great blues singer and harp blower Jagger can be when he lets his guard down.

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