It spawned the hit songs " Happy", a rare song that featured Keith Richards on lead vocals, country music ballad " Sweet Virginia", and worldwide top-ten hit " Tumbling Dice". contains frequently performed concert staples and was a number one charting album in six countries, including the UK, US, and Canada. These newly recorded tracks were combined with some tracks recorded at earlier sessions from 1969–1971, resulting in the Stones' first double album.Įxile on Main St. The resulting music was rooted in blues, rock and roll, swing, country and gospel, while the lyrics explored themes related to hedonism, sex and time. The recording was completed with overdub sessions at Los Angeles's Sunset Sound and included additional musicians such as pianist Nicky Hopkins, saxophonist Bobby Keys, drummer Jimmy Miller and horn player Jim Price. Working with a mobile recording studio, the loose and unorganised Nellcôte sessions went on for hours into the night, with personnel varying greatly from day to day. A collage of various images, the album's artwork, according to frontman Mick Jagger, reflects the Rolling Stones as "runaway outlaws using the blues as its weapon against the world", showcasing "feeling of joyful isolation, grinning in the face of a scary and unknown future". Recording began in 1969 in England during sessions for Sticky Fingers and continued in mid-1971 at a rented villa in the South of France named Nellcôte while the band lived abroad as tax exiles.
is the 10th British and 12th American studio album by the English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on by Rolling Stones Records. " Tumbling Dice" / " Sweet Black Angel"Įxile on Main St.
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