« Back to Top Level | Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts

Nicky Hopkins, Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts - Jamming with Edward! (1969)

Track listing:
  1. The Boudoir Stomp 5:14
  2. It Hurts Me Too 5:13
  3. Edward's Thrump Up 8:11
  4. Blow With Ry 11:05
  5. Interlude a la el Hopo [Includes 'The Loveliest Night of the Year'] 2:04
  6. Highland Fling 4:21

Notes

Though many feel that the Stones were at their best when playing loose, sloppy rock & roll à la Exile on Main St., 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 (Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, and Charlie 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.