exile on main street: the reissue
Posted: May 13th, 2010 | Author: dave | Filed under: good read, inspiration, music | Comments Off
The Rolling Stone’s Exile on Main Street is one of my favorite albums of all time. To me, it sounds like what a wild, reckless weekend should be: full of sloppy, late nights; words that are true in the moment; strutting and flirting; good friends coming and going, seemingly at random; and the biggest Sunday morning coming down ever, tagged with a round of redemption.
As, apparently, with all good things of my youth, it’s been dug up and reissued, repackaged, re-engineered with modern technology, and now with the stuff that we weren’t sure you’d enjoy the first time around!
Still, absolutely worth a listen.
The Wall Street Journal did a piece on how the album came together. NPR is streaming some of the tracks off of the reissue, and they brought together some musicians (Liz Phair, Robert Randolph, Alejandro Escovedo) to talk about what those tracks meant to them.
The reissue comes out May 18th. Amazon has samples of all of the tracks.