Get ready for Exile!

For many the best rock and roll album of all time, for me only the third greatest released by the Rolling Stones, "Exile On Main Street" will be soon re-released, remastered and with bonus discs added: one of them with extra tracks, second with video material. Allegedly even Mick Taylor added recently a few of his licks to the unfinished tracks. I'm all wet x) While getting ready for "Exile..." to come, you can grab some bootlegs with fine session material. See boots called "Hillside Blues" and "Taxile On Main Street". Also great is videotape of Montreux rehearsals from 1972 and audio bootleg called "Dallas Rehearsals 1972", all the material is in great quality and the band was on fire.

"Exile On Main Street" collected songs recorded between 1969 and 1971, but there aren't many outtakes. 6-minute version of "Loving Cup" with really drunk Mick on vocals always cheered me up, so did acoustic "All Down the Line". "I Ain't Signifying" is a good old-time barrelhouse blues tune. "I'm Going Down" and "Travellin' Man" are unfinished but very, very interesting takes on contemporary rock in 1971 :) There's also 10-minute-long heavy blues track called "Hillside Blues" also known as "I Don't Known the Reason Why". "(Can't Seem to) Get A Line On You" is an early take of "Shine A Light", amazing gospel tune with driving piano! Ans there's little short oddity called "Exile On Main Street Blues": a piano+vocals jingle promoting the new Stones' album, Mick wails: "exile on main street, a strange street to walk down" and mentions all titles of songs on the LP.

None of this is gonna end up on soon-to-be-released bonus disc so it's even better... :) Many new songs to be heard. Read an interview with Mick, Keith and producer Don Was here on the website of Rolling Stone magazine. Let's wait x) A feast's comin'.