The first Rolling Stones album to feature a horn section. It was a move influenced by artists like Otis Redding and James Brown, which I guess helped the Stones move further away from their Brit-rock contemporaries and scratch out their own path.
Actually, the band had been putting their sticky fingers in quite a few musical pies over the year, and this one seems just right for them to stick their Andy Warhol crotch into... I'm really mixing my metaphors here, suffice to say that it's a good album!
'Wild Horses' has always been a bit of a favourite of mine. Billy Preston's organ work in 'I got the blues' is a thing of funky soulful brilliance. 'Sister Morphine' is nice, but with it being a Marianne Faithful co-write, I kind of wish she'd collaborated on the vocals too.
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