My favorite
Rolling Stone’s album is most likely Steel Wheels. It is
hard to believe when I think back that it was released in 1989. Of
note, it was also the first all digital Rolling Stone’s album.
It is interesting
to note in retrospect, that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had both
not worked together for some years prior to the Steel Wheels
Album, and were both pursuing less memorable solo albums (Mick
Jagger’s Primitive Cool, and Keith Richard’s better
received Talk Is Cheap). However, their former differences
were set aside after the induction of The Rolling Stones into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in early 1989. While their more recent
previous work had more modern underpinnings, for Steel Wheels
they wanted to return to their more classic signature, Stones sound.
Steel Wheels is considered their “Reunion album.” It took
the band five years after Steel Wheels for their next album, Voodoo
Lounge.
