Wandering Spirit (2015 Remastered Version) Mick Jagger

• 1 Wired All Night 04:06
• 2 Sweet Thing 04:19
• 3 Out of Focus 04:36
• 4 Don't Tear Me Up 04:13
• 5 Put Me in the Trash 03:35
• 6 Use Me 04:29
• 7 Evening Gown 03:32
• 8 Mother of a Man 04:18
• 9 Think 02:59
• 10 Wandering Spirit 04:19
• 11 Hang On To Me Tonight 04:37
• 12 I've Been Lonely For So Long 03:29
• 13 Angel in My Heart 03:28
• 14 Handsome Molly 02:06
• Total Runtime 54:06

Info for Wandering Spirit (2015 Remastered Version)

Mick Jagger’s third proper solo album, “Wandering Spirit” was released in Feb. 1993. The third single “Don’t Tear Me Up” topped the US Billboard Rock Tracks list for two weeks. Critics raved about the album noting Mick’s abandonment of synthesizers in favor of a lean and mean guitar sound. They also noted that his voice seemed to have developed a deeper bottom end without sacrificing any of the highs.

For this go around, Mick engaged the noted rock producer Rick Rubin, whose muscular production work on the Cult’s “Electric” as well as the Chili Peppers “Blood Sugar Sex, Majik” had caught Mick’s attention.

A variety of musicians contributed performances to the album including Flea on bass, Billy Preston and Benmont Tench on organ and piano, and Jim Keltner on drums. Mick himself is credited with lead vocals, guitar, clavinet, harmonica and percussion.

Mick’s compositions were very wide ranging on this release (in a similar vein to the way he and Keith had composed songs for earlier Rolling Stones records). In fact Mick is quoted at the time as saying that “Actually it is not really a rock album per se. I don’t want to put anyone off, but if you look at it, there are only maybe three rock songs on it in the traditional form. The rest is R&B, or country, or gospel influenced, or rockabilly, or whatever. To me this is like a 92, 93 record. I’m not trying to go into any new form of music, because there is nothing out there that I want to push or get involved with that I am not already involved with.”

In Micks own words: “I was very relaxed about this record. No overall atmosphere of hostility. The rest of the Stones had all made solo LP’s. Charlie made his Charlie Parker album. Keith made his second solo album and Ronnie made a record. Even Bill made a record. In the process of writing my record there were a couple of songs where I said that’s going to sound great with The Stones, so I won’t use it. I’ve done many musical styles at one time or another, successfully or not. I’ve just never done them on one record. It can be slightly worrying, if it flies in too many directions. I guess a solo album is my chance to express some other musical thing. With a solo album you can do a folk song with just a fiddle if you want, because no one’s going to say anything.”

Mick Jagger, vocals, guitar, clavinet, harmonica, percussion
Matt Clifford, virginal, harpsichord, conductor, string arrangement
David Bianco, Moog synthesizer
Benmont Tench, piano and organ
Billy Preston, piano, organ, and clavinet
Jay Dee Maness, pedal steel guitar
Jimmy Rip, guitar and percussion
Frank Simes, guitar
Brendan O'Brien, guitar
Courtney Pine, saxophone
Robin McKidd, fiddle
Doug Wimbish, bass on "Sweet Thing"
Flea, bass
John Pierce, bass (on tracks: 1, 4, 5, 7 to 11, 13, 14)
Curt Bisquera, drums
Jim Keltner, drums on "Evening Gown"
Lenny Castro, percussion
Lenny Kravitz, vocals on "Use Me"
Lynn Davis, backing vocals
Jeff Pescetto, backing vocals
Jean McClain, backing vocals
Pamela Quinlan, backing vocals

Produced by Mick Jagger and Rick Rubin

Digitally remastered

Mick Jagger
is one of the most recognisable and influential British musicians of the modern era. As lead singer and songwriter for The Rolling Stones, a prolific and much sought-after collaborator, a successful producer and a lauded solo artist in his own right, Mick has set and maintained the gold standard for popular performance and creativity for nearly five decades.

Michael Philip Jagger was born in 1943, in Dartford, Kent. A good student, Mick attended grammar school and then won a place at the prestigious London School of Economics. As has been well documented, he was a childhood friend of future Stones bandmate, guitarist and co-writer Keith Richards, with whom he lost touch during adolescence, before a chance meeting on the platform of the local railway station in 1960 brought them back together in their late teens. Discovering a shared passion for American rhythm and blues and rock’n’roll, they started hanging out, playing records and then making music.

They were playing drop-in, walk-on, pick-up parts in the British blues boom of the early sixties, as part of blues legend Alexis Korner’s scene, when they fell in with guitarist Brian Jones and keyboardist Ian Stewart, joining the former’s band The Rolling Stones in June 1962, where they were soon to be joined by Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. The rest wasn’t silence.

As Stones front man, Mick Jagger became one of the faces and voices of the 1960s. As co-songwriter with Keith Richards, he was responsible for an extraordinary series of hit singles and albums, from ‘Get Off My Cloud’ and ‘(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’, to Beggars Banquet and Exile On Main Street. The Rolling Stones matched The Beatles for musical virtuosity and star quality, playing the dark side Yin to the Fab Four’s Yang, with Jagger the high profile representative of this exalted role.

Mick was also prime mover behind the band’s move towards independence from the music industry, with the launch of their own Rolling Stones Records label in 1971and subsequent move into arena and stadium concerts. This perspicacious anticipation of changing taste in the music public helped turn The Rolling Stones into the world’s top concert attraction, leading to a series of record-breaking tour over the last four decades.

As a collaborator, Mick has duetted with Tina Turner, Peter Tosh, David Bowie, The Jacksons and Bono, and worked with a vast host of other musicians including Carly Simon, Ry Cooder, Living Colour, Lenny Kravitz, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Who’s Pete Townshend and Dave Stewart of Eurythmics fame. The Jagger-Stewart composition ‘Old Habits Die Hard’, which originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 2004 remake of Alfie, starring Jude Law and directed by Charles Syer, won the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Mick Jagger has released 15 solo singles and 5 solo albums, including She’s The Boss in 1985, Wandering Spirit in 1993 and Goddess In The Doorway in 2001. His vocal work, like his songwriting, defies categorisation. From menace, excitement, and dangerone moment, to soulful balladeering the next, Mick has always been about the songs and the music first, the style and genre second. The blues are and always have been his first love; but there have been many other affairs along the way.

He has brought a similar range and intensity to his film work. Performance, directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg in 1968, is probably the standout reference, but his performances in the title role of Tony Richardson’s Ned Kelly, in 1970, and in Geoff Murphy’s sci-fi film Freejack in 1992, are also attention-worthy.

Jagger’s filmography also includes cameos in Bent, Sean Mathias’ 1997 film adaptation of the controversial Martin Sherman play, and The Man From Elysian Fields, directed by George Hickenlooper in 2002, as well as the World War II drama Enigma, directed by Michael Apted, which he co-produced in 2001. The same year, his Jagged Films company produced Being Mick, a revealing documentary about the singer.

Acknowledged for his business acumen and success in developing and exploiting the Rolling Stones brand, Mick Jagger is also a noted sports fan, particularly cricket. He was knighted in 2003 styled Sir Michael Jagger, appropriately enough for Services to Music.

More can be found at RollingStones.com.

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