{"id":483199,"date":"2019-03-09T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=806183"},"modified":"2019-03-09T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T18:08:44","slug":"hear-keith-richards-unreleased-blues-shuffle-big-town-playboy-from-talk-is-cheap-reissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-keith-richards-unreleased-blues-shuffle-big-town-playboy-from-talk-is-cheap-reissue\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Keith Richards\u2019 Unreleased Blues Shuffle \u2018Big Town Playboy\u2019 From \u2018Talk Is Cheap\u2019 Reissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-09-at-9.24.09-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/keith-richards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_keith-richards\" data-tag=\"keith-richards\">Keith Richards<\/a> has shared the new lyric video for \u201cBig Town Playboy,\u201d an unreleased track that features on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/keith-richards-talk-is-cheap-30th-anniversary-779876\/\">the upcoming reissue<\/a> of the Rolling Stones guitarist\u2019s 1988 solo LP <em>Talk Is Cheap<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The blues shuffle, recorded during the same sessions that spawned <em>Talk Is Cheap<\/em>, features former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and Rock Hall-inducted blues pianist and Chuck Berry collaborator Johnnie Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album holds up,\u201d Richards previously said of the <em>Talk Is Cheap<\/em> 30th anniversary reissue. \u201cI\u2019ve been listening to it and not through the mists of nostalgia either because it doesn\u2019t affect me that way. This is more than the sum of its parts. I really admire it. We were having fun and you can hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Town Playboy\u201d is one of six unreleased tracks on the reissue, which also boasts the unearthed outtake \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/keith-richards-talk-is-cheap-30th-anniversary-779876\/\">My Babe<\/a>.\u201d In addition to standard CD and vinyl versions, the 30th anniversary reissue, due out March 29th, is available as a deluxe box set with an 80-page book featuring a new interview with Richards. A <a href=\"https:\/\/store.keithrichards.com\/talk-is-cheap-super-deluxe-box-set-1.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201csuper deluxe\u201d box set<\/a> that comes in a case that replaces Richards\u2019 guitar case made by the Fender Custom Shop and takes two weeks to create.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aging on the brass name plate is done in a high temperature metal tempering oven (Temperature, time, and exact process is a trade secret,\u201d Fender\u2019s director of wood technology Mike Born said in a statement. \u201cThe ash exterior is a multi-step process that is also proprietary, but is different than we use in aging guitars, due to the precision required to age a guitar in the appropriate areas that wear due to use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/keith-richards-big-town-playboy-806183\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Richards has shared the new lyric video for \u201cBig Town Playboy,\u201d an unreleased track that features on the upcoming reissue of the Rolling Stones guitarist\u2019s 1988 solo LP Talk Is Cheap. The blues shuffle, recorded during the same sessions that spawned Talk Is Cheap, features former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and Rock Hall-inducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 04:32:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}