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Ron Wood I've Got My Own Album To Do (1974)
Originally Released 1974\nCD Edition Released September 13, 1994\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: For his first album, Ron Wood enlisted Keith Richards and the Faces' pianist Ian McLagan as support and turned in a loose, good-humored album that catches fire on the swaggering "Take a Look at the Guy," the earnest cover of "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody," and the grinding R&B workout "Crotch Music." -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nGreat Album For Seventies/Eighties Stones or Faces Fans, January 23, 2007\nReviewer: John M. Lacey (Cairo, Egypt)\nI bought this on a whim after purchasing the excellent Faces box set. What can I say except that this is an excellent album! I remember seeing this on vinyl in my roommate's Stones collection and never bothered to listen to it....what a mistake! All of the songs could have easily been on any 1970's Stones album and reveal what a great talent Ron Wood is. A+++ \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nWhat a great find!, December 9, 2006\nReviewer: C. M. Scheben (San Francisco, CA)\nI thought i knew all the important Rolling Stones and affiliates Albums of that period. I had been trying to squeeze the most remote b-sides out of my Leon Russel, Dr John and Gram Parsons Albums and then...i came accross a copy of this Ron Wood - I've Got My Own Album To Do.! Apart from the fact that in light of history i find this a very witty title this is a f***ing great album. You can tell that everybody spent a lot of time in jamaica (lot's of reggae influences in the groove department) and it has these brilliant junkie riffs that keith richards and ron wood are so famous for. rightfully so. listen to it back to back with 461 ocean boulevard by eric clapton, who was not only on heroin too but hung out in jamaica with the boys but i think crashed his ferrari around the same time as keith crashed his Rolls, and you realize who has the better right (rhythm) hand. clearly Ron and Keith. Plus you have the not credited participation of mick jagger and rod stewart which makes this album great just because of who played on it. And they produced quality songs. Ron could have been somebody. He could have been a contender... but i guess the lure of playing with the rolling stones makes you reconsider your purpose in life, mind all the chicks, dope and arena tours. Now that Mick Jagger has officially turned himself into Jane Fonda doing aerobics, it's very nice to hear music from a time when all these guys still mattered and when they were on top of their game and not completely washed up.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nIn the shadow of a legend, March 22, 2006\nReviewer: Yuma (Charlottesville, Va.)\nAlways a very competent guitarist, (he seemed confused and annoyed at the Super Bowl, though) he remains an impostor. In attempting to fill the shoes of Brian Jones, he failed miserably where Mick Taylor at times was able to succeed. No great Stones albums since Sticky Fingers...a sad fact that is an indictment on RW as well as on the shadow of a band that remains.\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\ngem, April 17, 2004\nReviewer: Johnny Blades "sirin101" (Wellington New Zealand)\nThis was made around the same time as Ron's future band The Rolling Stones cobbled together their last album with the man he would replace on guitar, Mick Taylor. That album, It's Only Rock n Roll, is a dark and rather below-par effort compared to the great Stones albums that preceded it. The truth is, with Taylor, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger all guesting on it, Ron's album is a better album than It's Only Rock n Roll, and in no small way another chapter in the Stones catalogue. In some ways, I've Got My Own Album to Do is the great forgotten Stones album, under Wood's direction.\nA fine collection of songs with a real patchwork quilt of material. A few things should be pointed out about why this album is great: firstly, the players are top notch - not only the aforementioned Stones, but in Andy Newmark and Willie Weeks a world class rythm section, Ian McLagan and Rod Stewart from the Faces, among others, feature on the LP; secondly, the songs are strong, showing how good Ron really is, or was before his talent underwent subjugation in the Stones; and thirdly, the album has stood the test of time and reflects perfectly the good-time spirit that Ron is all about because the LP was clearly made in the name of fun and passion for music - it has a home studio feel to it, yet it's grunty and slick in parts too. A diverse album of different rock, funk, blues and even pop grooves.\nRon's voice aint bad either, and he uses Jagger and Stewatr's well-known voices sparingly, to his credit, bringing them in like lead instruments, or texturing them with his own wiry crow.\nThere's a cople of Jagger/Richards originals on this album, and they can be considered Rolling Stones songs (even if Charlie and Bil werent on them!) and one of them 'Sure the One You Need' is on the highlights of the album, just beautiful Chuck Berry rock that Keith and Ron churn out so well. 'Can You Feel the Fire?' and 'You Mystify Me' are excellent too. Overall, I cannot see a weak song on this album, and the jam or funk songs are more than mere filler tracks.\nRock on Ron. Maybe you should write more with the Stones\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nRonnie has good company, October 2, 2000\nReviewer: "tdshalseytaylor" (Grosse Ile, MI USA)\nAccording to rock legend, Keith Richards met Wood's wife at a club one night. She invited Keith over to check it out; he stayed for four months! Ron must be a good guy to have all these guys help him out on this good sounding eight track recording. You can almost hear the Guinness being poured....Chris Robinson (crowes) wishes he was invited. If you like homemade basement tapes, get this!\n\n\nHalf.com Details \nContributing artists: Keith Richards \nProducer: Gary Kellgren, Ron Wood \n\nAlbum Notes\nPersonnel: Ron Wood (vocals, guitar); Ian McLagan (keyboards); Willie Weeks (bass); Andy Newmark (drums).\n\nUp until the early 1970's, Ron Wood was known primarily as a sideman in various bands (The Creation, the Jeff Beck Group, and the Faces). In 1974, Wood took a step out from out of the shadows and issued his first solo release, I'VE GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO. His debut has a definite 'home made' feel to it, with such all-star friends as the Face's keyboardist/pianist Ian McLagan and the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards join Wood in the festivities. Standouts include a pair of Richards tracks ("Act Together" and "Sure the One You Need"), a cover of "If You Gotta Make A Fool of Somebody," and the crude n' bluesy album closer, "Crotch Music."\n\nIndustry Reviews\n4 Stars - Excellent - ...There's a pub-styled chug-a-lug, a loose country feel, boozesque sub-Faces harmonies to the whole affair that is...rather wee-wee-hours-effective...\nQ Magazine (01/01/1995)\n\n\nROLLING STONE REVIEW\nRon Wood, whose role in the Faces has paralleled Keith Richard's function in the Rolling Stones, has put together what is less a solo album than a friendly, late-night session involving the front men of the Faces and the Stones. But I've Got My Own Album To Do is still a Wood album in that he wrote six of the 11 songs (including "Far East Man" with George Harrison), and he's the only musician involved who could maintain such a happy-go-lucky attitude about a personal project. The charm of the album is its simultaneous display of spirited playing and disarming casualness.\n\nAppropriately, Keith Richard is almost as visible as Wood throughout: He takes the lead vocal on "Sure the One You Need," one of the two new Jagger/Richard compositions he debuts on the album, and his gritty guitar work and brittle vocals complement Wood's not dissimilar playing and singing. Ian McLagan's keyboards are as prominent here as they are integral to the Faces' sound, and there are vocal performances from Rod Stewart and Mick Jagger, although they're not credited.\n\nAside from the closing cut--a merely competent soul instrumental--everything on the album is infused with one-take spontaneity, but none more so than a rendition of "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody," sung with staggering sincerity by Wood, Stewart and Richard. Wood's "I Can Feel the Fire" (on which Jagger sings) manages at once to be a syncopated reggae tune and a swaggering, Stones-like rocker, its gears miraculously meshing. Two other originals, "Mystifies Me" (sung with Stewart) and "Cancel Everything" (a duet with Keith) are fine, affecting ballads that suggest Wood should write more often.\n\nWood's gregariousness and lack of egocentricity have resulted in that rare item -- a one-off album that (like the Alvin Lee/Mylon LeFevre collaboration of last year) documents a group of players in a moment of musical and interpersonal harmony. (RS 173 -- Nov 7, 1974) -- BUD SCOPPA
This rock cd contains 11 tracks and runs 47min 31sec.
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