Am I Hard Enough?

If you're a Rolling Stones fan, I have a CD you should really hear. It's an album of Stones covers I picked up at The Warehouse the other day [for $9.99]. It's called Songs of Rolling Stones All Blues'd Up!. Here's the track list:

Luther Allison - You Can't Always Get What You Want
Johnny Copeland - Tumbling Dice
Junior Wells - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
Otis Clay - Wild Horses
Taj Mahal - Honky Tonk Women
Alvin "Youngblood" Hart - Sway
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Ventilator Blues
The Holmes Brothers - Beast Of Burden
Lucky Peterson - Under My Thumb
Bobby Womack - It's All Over Now
Larry McCray - Midnight Rambler
Joe Louis Walker - Heart Of Stone
Alvin "Youngblood" Hart - Moonlight Mile

Most of the versions are great covers [and hours can be spent discussing the merits of a good cover version]; some are even superb. In addition, rather agreeably, the album should really be called Songs of Rolling Stones All Blues'd, Soul'd and Gospel'd Up! because many of the artists totally nail the innate gospel-soul component of the Stones' [approximately] 70's material and bang out fully-powered screamin'-soul versions which generally kick yo' ass.

Other aspects which add greatly to the appeal of this CD:
1] No appearance of Robert Cray, in any form, anywhere
2] For that matter, no Albert King, B.B. King, or Johnny and/or Edgar Winters
3] Much muscular bass, Hammond organ, squelching guitar and ace drumming... and all nicely produced and recorded - no shitty cheap Warehouse CD styles here
4] Charmingly odd graphics on cover [see image]

In the same series there is also a set of Led Zeppelin covers which I picked up - it didn't make such a strong impression initially - and one of Eric Clapton material, which I sniffily passed on; also available, apparently, are discs of Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan tunes.