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Bill Wyman: Back to Basics

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Label: Proper Records
Released: 2015.06.22
Time:
 69:34
Category: Rock, Blues Rock
Producer(s): Bill Wyman, Andy Wright
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.billwyman.com
Appears with: The Rolling Stones
Purchase date: 2015
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] What & How & If & When & Why (B.Wyman) - 3:38
[2] I Lost My Ring (B.Wyman) - 3:37
[3] Love, Love, Love (B.Wyman) - 3:41
[4] Stuff (Can't Get Enough) (B.Wyman) - 4:05 *
[5] Running Back To You (B.Wyman) - 4:01
[6] She's Wonderful (B.Wyman) - 3:56
[7] Seventeen (B.Wyman) - 3:50
[8] I'll Pull You Through (B.Wyman) - 3:07
[9] November (B.Wyman) - 3:45
[10] Just A Friend Of Mine (B.Wyman) - 3:42
[11] It's A Lovely Day (B.Wyman) - 2:05
[12] I Got Time (B.Wyman) - 3:54

* - Back to Basics version 2015

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Bill Wyman - Bass, Vocals, Producer
Terry Taylor - Guitars
Robbie McIntosh - Guitars
Guy Fletcher - Keyboards
Graham Broad - Drums

Andy Wright - Producer

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2015 CD Proper Records - PRPCD125



It’s clear now, more than two decades later, that Bill Wyman didn’t leave the Rolling Stones because he felt boxed out by the Jagger-Richards songwriting juggernaut. The Stones have put out three full-length albums and a smattering of stand-alone things since, while Wyman has put out exactly none.

Well, until June 22, 2015, when their erstwhile bassist will issue Back to Basics via Proper Records — Bill Wyman’s first new solo project in 33 years. He’s joined by Robbie McIntosh (The Pretenders, Paul McCartney), Guy Fletcher (Mark Knopfler) and long-time collaborator Terry Taylor on an album produced by Andy Wright (Jeff Beck, the Eurythmics).

To be fair, however, he has been active with Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings, and that loose amalgam’s low-key, country-blues approach to music making permeates Back to Basics. This is more JJ Cale than it is “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and therein probably lies the creative divide between Wyman and his old bandmates.

And so, we have Bill Wyman employing an oaken vocal on “November,” to the accompaniment of a delicate Spanish guitar, and the aw-shucks shuffle of “I Got Time” — an ambling harp-flecked song that makes good on that promise. Those amiable asides are goosed along on Back to Basics with Wyman’s flinty scamper through the Blockheads-ish “What & How & If & When & Why” and a rousing, Ray Charlies-inspired update of “I’ll Pull You Through.”

Still, the overarching theme here — as it has been, really, since his similarly amiable 1974 solo debut Monkey Grip — is one of relaxed craftsmanship, as unpretentious and small-scale as his long-lost friends in the Rolling Stones are outsized and cocksure.

Nick Deriso - June 19, 2015
Copyright © 2015 Something Else!



Back To Basics does exactly what it says on the tin. It is unashamedly stripped back. The snappy lyrics are refreshingly audible and the instrumentation is clean, subtle and accomplished.

Back To Basics wears its influences on its sleeve – Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, JJ Cale – and there’s more than a passing nod to Bill’s own English background. It is that rare thing, a meld of styles and genres that actually work together – uplifting in a jaunty, dancey way and pensive in a bluesy, narrative way.

As might be expected from one of the world’s best known bass players Back To Basics drives along with a rhythmic muscularity, and then slows the pace for more autobiographical lyric and melody. It is an album that warrants repeated play. It is also an album that’s long overdue.

Bill Wyman’s last solo UK album, ‘Bill Wyman’, was released in 1982. Back To Basics comprises only his fourth ever UK solo release. But Bill has not been idle of course. 31 years in the Rolling Stones, author of seven learned books, globally exhibited photographer, metal detecting expert with his own brand of metal detector, producer, composer for film and TV and founder of the very successful Rhythm Kings’, who still release CD’s and tour regularly – he has had a pretty full calendar. It was only when archiving old demos last year he realised he had around 60 songs he’d never released.

He chose three songs that needed reworking and did just that. He put them together with a bunch of brand new songs and went into his studio to record them. The CD comprises 12 tracks in total, eight of which are brand new songs. Musicians joining Bill in the studio include long time collaborator/guitarist Terry Taylor, Guy Fletcher (Mark Knopfler), Graham Broad and Robbie McIntosh, while co-production credit goes to Andy Wright (Jeff Beck, Eurythmics, Simply Red).

On Bill Wyman’s Back To Basics you get music that’s the real deal… and you’re all the better for it.

billwyman.com



Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman will release Back to Basics, his first solo album in 33 years, on June 22nd via Proper Records.

Per a press release, the stripped-back album counts JJ Cale, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen among its influences, and came about after Wyman found approximately 60 unreleased songs while archiving old demos last year. He reworked five of those tracks, placing them alongside eight new songs.

Wyman was joined in the studio by guitarist, and longtime collaborator, Terry Taylor, as well as Guy Fletcher, Graham Broad and Robbie McIntosh. The album was co-produced by Andy Wright (Jeff Beck, Eurythmics).

Back to Basics marks Wyman's first solo album since his 1982 self-titled effort and is only his fourth solo release overall. "Initially I thought I'm a bit old for this," Wyman noted in the statement. "But then I thought all the old blues musicians played till they dropped so why don't I give it a go."

Despite the significant gap in solo material, Wyman has regularly toured and recorded with his band, the Rhythm Kings. He's also composed for TV and film, penned several books, held photo exhibitions, patented his own metal detector, and, in 2013, released, Bill Wyman's Scrapbook.  The latter was a limited edition coffee-table book filled with images from his London childhood up through his final full show with the Rolling Stones in 1990.

"I've always been interested in multiple things since I was a teenager," Wyman told Rolling Stone in 2013 of his Renaissance man ways. "I've always been interested in ancient cultures, archaeology, astronomy, photography, art – and as I grew up, I tried to learn more and embellish those things by reading books and documentaries and films.

"When I was in the band for 30 years, that was very difficult, because I didn't have the opportunity to spend much time doing that. But I did meet great artists in France, like Marc Chagall. I learned about art and I met historians. I met scientists. And I went to look at the stars in observatories, and it just opened my life to many, many different other aspects."

Jon Blistein - April 16, 2015
RollingStone.com
 

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