Keith Richards will mark the 30th anniversary of the release of his debut solo album ‘Talk Is Cheap’ with an expanded edition in April.
The new 2019 version of ‘Talk Is Cheap’ will be a six-disc box with a stack of accessories including an extra six never-before released tracks.
“This album holds up,“ Keith Richards says. “I’ve been listening to it and not through the mists of nostalgia either because it doesn’t affect me that way. This is more than the sum of its parts. I really admire it. We were having fun and you can hear it.”
Talk Is Cheap expanded edition
• In 1988, on a break from his band the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards released his first ever solo album, Talk Is Cheap. This universally respected debut is an eleven track masterclass in everything that’s good about rock ‘n roll and features guest appearances from an all-star cast including Sarah Dash, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, the Memphis Horns, Patti Sciafia and Mick Taylor.
• Remastered from the original tapes by Richards’ collaborator, Steve Jordan, the album’s joyous swagger is re-energised and permeates through each and every song. Talk Is Cheap sounds as good today as it did thirty years ago; in Keith’s words: “As fresh as the day it was made.”
• Contents are cased in an exquisite deluxe folio pack, wrapped in Fender style guitar case material.
• Remastered 180g LP album
• 180g LP of bonus material – Features 6 never before released tracks
• 7” single Take It So Hard / I Could Have Stood You Up
• 7” single Make No Mistake / It Means A Lot
• Remastered CD album
• CD containing bonus material – Features 6 never before released tracks featuring Mick Taylor, Bootsy Collins, & Johnnie Johnson
• Extensive 80 page hardback book with Anthony DeCurtis written essay featuring a new interview with Keith, including extensive rare and unseen photos from personal archives.
• Tour laminate
• 2X lyric sheets
• Reproduction Talk is Cheap playback invite
• Talk is Cheap tour guitar pick
• 2x posters
‘Talk Is Cheap’ will be released as CD, vinyl, Deluxe and Super Deluxe box set.
‘Talk Is Cheap’ Single CD and vinyl full tracklisting:
1. Big Enough
2. Take It So Hard
3. Struggle
4. I Could Have Stood You Up
5. Make No Mistake
6. You Don’t Move Me
7. How I Wish
8. Rockawhile
9. Whip It Up
10. Locked Away
11. It Means A Lot
‘Talk Is Cheap’ Deluxe & Super Deluxe Box Set includes these extra bonus tracks:
1. Blues Jam
2. My Babe
3. Slim
4. Big Town Playboy
5. Mark On Me
6. Brute Force
Personnel
• Keith Richards – lead vocals and guitar
• Sarah Dash – background vocals, duet on “Make No Mistake”
• Charley Drayton – bass guitar (tracks: 2, 3, 5 to 7, 9 to 11)
• Steve Jordan – drums, percussion, and backing vocals
• Ivan Neville – piano and keyboards (tracks: 2, 3, 7, 10, 11)
• Patti Scialfa – background vocals
• Waddy Wachtel – acoustic, electric, and slide guitar (tracks: 2, 3, 6 to 11) and production consultant
Additional musicians
• Bootsy Collins – bass guitar on “Big Enough”
• Michael Doucet – violin on “Locked Away”
• Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural – accordion on “You Don’t Move Me”, “Rockawhile”, and “Locked Away”
• Johnny Johnson – piano on “I Could Have Stood You Up”
• Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone on “I Could Have Stood You Up” and “Whip It Up”
• Chuck Leavell – organ on “I Could Have Stood You Up”
• Maceo Parker – alto saxophone on “Big Enough”
• Joey Spampinato – bass guitar on “I Could Have Stood You Up” and “Rockawhile”
• Mick Taylor – guitar on “I Could Have Stood You Up”
• Bernie Worrell – organ on “Big Enough” and “You Don’t Move Me” and clavinet on “Make No Mistake” & “Rockawhile”
• Ben Cauley, Jack Hale, Jimmi Kinnard, Andrew Love, James Mitchell, Willie Mitchell (also responsible for horn arrangements), • Gary Topper, The Memphis Horns: Horns
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