Keith Richards

Keith Richards-Crosseyed Heart-24BIT-96KHZ-WEB-FLAC-2015-OBZEN
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:58:07 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
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Keith Richards – Talk Is Cheap (2019 – Remaster) [Deluxe Version] (1988/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:25 minutes | 1,78 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

It wasn’t until 1988 that Keith Richards, at the age of 45, finally launched his solo career. Mick Jagger had recently preceded him with the albums She’s the Boss in 1985 and Primitive Cool in 1987, both of which were met with some commercial success, but are now somewhat forgotten from the history of rock’n’roll. With a smaller public reception, Talk is Cheap is evidently more rock oriented than Jagger’s albums. The master of riffs brings his influential know-how to a collection of relaxed tracks. He is supported by Steve Jordan’s solid drum rhythms and Charley Drayton’s bass. Somewhere between classic Stones rock, vintage honky-tonk, and hints of New-Orleans delta blues, Richards displays himself as more a crafter of melodies than a conventional songwriter. This solo debut resembles, above anything, an enormous, joyous jam session between friends. Such friends include: Ivan Neville (piano), Bobby Keys (sax), Waddy Wachtel (guitar), Bootsy Collins (bass), Chuck Leavell (keys), Maceo Parker (saxo), Mick Taylor (guitar), Bernie Worrell (keys) and Willie Mitchell. All in all, without his eternal other half, Keith Richards copes fairly well. Hence his return one year later with the album Steel Wheels …  – Max Dembo

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Keith Richards – Talk Is Cheap (1988/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:09 minutes | 549 MB | Genre: Rock
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Legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards solo release. If you like the Stones, check out Talk Is Cheap and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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Keith Richards – Main Offender (1992/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:54 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Rock
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“Main Offender” is the second studio album by Keith Richards, released in 1992 between the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels and Voodoo Lounge projects.

Richards teamed with Talk Is Cheap collaborator Steve Jordan and added Waddy Wachtel to the mix both in composing and producing Main Offender. Sessions with Richards’ group of musician friends known as “The X-Pensive Winos” took place in California and New York City from March to September 1992, with touring in Europe’s autumn and early 1993 in North America.

When Richards reunited with Mick Jagger (who recorded Wandering Spirit while Richards was making Main Offender) in mid-1993 to start work on Voodoo Lounge, Jagger complimented him on Main Offender,[citation needed] and used the single “Wicked as It Seems” as inspiration for The Rolling Stones’ next single, “Love Is Strong”.

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Keith Richards – Live at the Hollywood Palladium (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:05 minutes | 1,71 GB | Genre: Rock
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Newly remastered 13 track live album in Mediabook packaging, recorded Live on the Talk is Cheap Tour at the Hollywood Palladium on December 15th, 1988.

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Keith Richards – Main Offender (2021 Remaster) [Deluxe Edition] (1992/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:04:04 minutes | 1,56 GB | Genre: Rock
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Keith Richard’s 1992 album Main Offender is being reissued in March across four physical formats, including a five-disc super deluxe box set.

All formats feature a remastered edition of the album (overseen by the original producer Steve Jordan) while the 2CD deluxe edition and the five disc (3LP+2CD) deluxe box set offer a bonus album Winos Live in London ’92.
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Keith Richards – Crosseyed Heart (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:07 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
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Three albums in 71 years spent on this earth would suggest a work-rate that is not particularly infernal. However, Keith Richards does not only work for himself, but as a principal songwriter for a little known band called The Rolling Stones… Emerging from the shadows on the 18th September, Crosseyed Heart is the third studio offering from the human riff, whose last solo venture dates from as far back as 1992’s Main Offender. With nothing to prove, and perhaps nothing to gain, Richards allows himself to have fantastic fun on a disc that reaches nearly an hour. It has no frills, and is all the more endearing for it. Surrounded by three long-time collaborators, namely Waddy Wachtel (guitar), Ivan Neville (keyboards), and the album’s co-composer Steve Jordan (drums), Richards brilliantly slaloms between rock, blues, country and reggae, wielding his eternally potent image as a rakish, ethereal tramp. The production on Crosseyed Heart merits a mention, sticking firmly to the guitarist’s blueprint, and thereby bringing a touch of authenticity to the disc. But it is, finally, in the ballads and slower songs that Keith Richards works wonders here (the acoustic opening to the bluesy track ‘Crosseyed Heart’ reminded Qobuz of Robert Johnson; as did ‘Robbed Blind’ and ‘Suspicious’). It is a delight to see this living God of Rock leave his status in the changing room, and play and sing in a simple, direct way. We wish to alert your attention, finally, to two further tracks, a cover of ‘Goodnight Irene’ by Leadbelly, and the track ‘Illusion’, which features guest vocals from Norah Jones.
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