Music Friday: "All Down the Line" & "Stop Breaking Down"

One CD I've had in the car this week is the excellent album, Exile on Main Street by The Rolling Stones.

Like so many rock musicians, The Rolling Stones lifted heavily from the blues.

To my mind, Led Zeppelin is the only band to do a better job than the Rolling Stones in stealing African-American music reworking blues signatures into a rock-n-roll format. And Exile showcases the blues-appropriating acumen of the Stones.

The first tune is a video of the Stones circa 1972--good stuff. "All Down the Line" is track 15 on Exile on Main Street.





"Stop Breaking Down" is track 16 on the album, and it's a traditional blues song. The video features them playing with bluesman Robert Cray in 1995.