Mick Jagger interview: 'Exile on Main St.' revisited
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in Richards' mansion in the south of France, where the Rolling Stones recorded "Exile on Main Street." View more pictures from the original "Exile on Main St." recording session.
The latest re-release of the Rolling Stones’ 1972 masterpiece, “Exile on Main St.,” will be available next week, and it’s the most ambitious repackaging yet. It includes a deluxe edition with bonus tracks, a documentary DVD and hard-cover book. (Read Kot's review of the album HERE.)
It presents the original album intact and sounding better than ever with newly remastered sound. But the liner notes and documentary footage skim the surface of just what went on in Keith Richards’ villa-turned-recording-studio in the south of France during the summer of 1971.More troubling: The 10 previously unreleased tracks – the main reason many Stones aficionados will bother shelling out for this pricey reissue ($29.98 to $179.98) -- shed little new light on the past; instead most of them feature freshly overdubbed vocals by Mick Jagger, a misguided attempt to update an album that needs no updating.
I spoke in the last few days with both Jagger and Richards about the reissue. It’s clear that Richards wasn’t heavily involved in the remixes of the previously unreleased “Exile”-era tracks. Instead he proclaimed his allegiance to the sanctity of the 1971 session recordings; the 18 album tracks on the original “Exile” were not remixed, only remastered.
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