Notes

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Howdy doody whoever receives this record.
Here's a nice little piece of bullshit about this hot waxing which we cut one night in London, England while waiting for our guitar player to get out of bed. It was promptly forgotten (which may have been for the better) until it was unearthed from the family vaults by those two impressive entrepreneurs - Glyn Johns and Marshall Chess. It was they who convinced the artists that this historic jam of the giants should be unleashed on an unsuspecting public. As it cost about $2.98 to make the record, we thought the price of $3.98 was appropriate for the finished product. I think that is about what it is worth. No doubt some stores may even give it away. The album consists of the Rolling Stones' rhythm section; plus solos from two instrumentalists - Nicky 'Woof Woof' Hopkins and Ry Cooder; plus the numbled bathroom mumblings of myself. I hope you spend longer listening to this record than we did making it.

Yours faithfully

Mick Jagger

Produced by : Glyn Johns

Musicians :

Nicky Hopkins
Ry Cooder
Mick Jagger
Bill Wyman
Charlie Watts

Though many feel that the Stones were at their best when playing loose, sloppy rock & roll a la Exile on Main Street, with this 1972 release on Rolling Stones Records, the unrehearsed style of the album is more of a hindrance than a call to ragged glory. Not an official Rolling Stones release, the assembled band does contain three-fifths of the group (Jagger, Wyman and Watts) along with session man extraordinaire Nicky Hopkins and guitarist Ry Cooder. The band stumbles through keyboard-dominated original numbers such as "Boudoir Stomp" and "Edward's Thrump Up," as well as more conventional cuts like a cover of Elmore James' "It Hurts Me Too." Yet, the songs never get beyond giving the listener the impression they were thrown together during a drunken night's rehearsals. In that sense the album is a bit of a letdown; though any Stones fan would surely clamor for lost material from the band's golden age, Jamming With Edward instead makes one wish it had never been released.