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...singer and two guitarists belonged to a tiny circle of stubborn white blues players headed by Alexis Komer, himself a guitarist and leader of band called Blues Incorporated. Komer, though a talented musician, was destined to leave his mark as a matchmaker, not a performer. By letting punks like Jagger, Richards and Jones sit in with Blues Inc., he gave them an opportunity to prove they were as good as they said they were...
...later in person, to the United States, where they sought the gritty texture and bitter taste of the music played by American Blacks. "Blues" or "rhythm and blues"--the labels were imprecise and unimportant. When the pace picked up and the beat straightened out, it became "rock and roll." Jagger, Richards and Jones thought they would bring the real thing back to Britain. Once they got moving, they ended up bringing it back to this country as well-changed, of course, and unlike anything heard before on either side of the Atlantic...
...another in a series of tributes to the group's spiritual homeland. (See review below.) As always, the music bears a mixture of sentiments: raucous enthusiasm tempered by ironic self-knowledge. The Stones appreciated the distance between themselves and the songs they sang from the start: Mick Jagger was not the first Mannish Boy, after...
...Jagger worked the hardest of all to play off the American traditions and create something new. Listen to the first Stones single, a standard Berry track called "Come On," and you can pick up the taunting combination of Cockney chop and Southern drawl--both self-consciously nurtured--which the singer has toyed with since then...
After a maiden British tour with Bo Diddley, the Stones released their first album in 1964. It countered the early Beatles' cheerful harmonies with a rough-edged interpretation of what Jagger. Richards and Jones imagined America sounded like. Dominated by covers of American hits. The Rolling Stones, prepared critics and fans for the Stones first big single, "Not Fade Away," an aging Buddy Holly rattler which Richards souped up Chicago style...