Keith Richards - Crosseyed Heart (2015) {Japan SHM-CD }

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Keith Richards brings the third solo album for the first time since in 23 years. This Japanese edition exclusively features SHM-CD format + bonus track. Keith Richards took his time to complete Crosseyed Heart. It arrives 23 years after Main Offender, his last solo studio album, but also 11 years after A Bigger Bang, the last official Rolling Stones record, but Richards hasn't exactly been quiet in all those years. He helped Mick Jagger flesh out the leftover demos for expanded editions of Exile on Main St. and Some Girls – conspiracists argued some of the writing happened in the new millennium – and toured with the Stones on various anniversaries, but the feather in his cap was Life, the 2010 memoir that established Keith as a razor-sharp raconteur for the masses that may never have paid attention to Talk Is Cheap.





Bookended by acoustic numbers – the first is the charmingly tossed-off title track, a song that feels clipped in its conclusion, the last a version of Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene," with the lyrics slightly modified – the album does indeed bear the suggestion of a construction, a record that slides from obsession to obsession without calling attention to transitions.



Nothing here is surprising, not the overdriven Chess boogie of "Blues in the Morning" or the ska shuffle of "Love Overdue," but that familiarity is an asset, because Keith luxuriates in his detours so much he winds up synthesizing his affections into a signature, a move highlighted by the soulful crawl of the Norah Jones duet "Illusion," a song where both singers seem seduced by the slow groove. "Illusion" mildly recalls "Make No Mistake," but where that Talk Is Cheap number underlined its Stax connections, Crosseyed Heart isn't so edgy: Keith no longer has to prove what he has to contribute to either the Stones or the culture at large, so he settles into his favorite sounds, loving to play the blues, rock & roll, country, and folk he's always savored, then sliding into the open-chord boogie that's unmistakably his.





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01 - Crosseyed Heart

02 - Heartstopper

03 - Amnesia

04 - Robbed Blind

05 - Trouble

06 - Love Overdue

07 - Nothing On Me

08 - Suspicious

09 - Blues In The Morning

10 - Something For Nothing

11 - Illusion

12 - Just a Gift

13 - Goodnight Irene

14 - Substantial Damage

15 - Lover's Plea

16 - Love Overdue (Featuring Lee "Scratch" Perry) - bonus track



*2015 Mindless Records {Japan SHM-CD | UICY-15429  }