The Rolling Stones, Now! by The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones, Now!, the band's third American studio album, came out on London Records in February 1965, and it's a snapshot of the Stones as a blues-and-R&B gang still leaning mostly on other people's material. Andrew Loog Oldham produced. Most of the tracks had already appeared in Britain, stitched together here with the recent American single, "Heart of Stone" backed with "What a Shame", plus two songs nobody had heard and an alternate take.

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote four of the songs; the rest come from the American rhythm and blues and rock and roll players, and the Stones attack them with a surly, greasy snap. Brian Jones's slide and harmonica, Bill Wyman's bass, Charlie Watts's drums and Ian Stewart's keyboards keep the grooves low and mean, and "Little Red Rooster" struts along at a slow, lewd crawl.

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