12X5

Rolling Stones - 12 x 5 (DSD Remastered)

This is a DSD Remastered cd.

Dsd encoding is the same conversion technolgy used for Super Audio CD (SACD).

It's caprure every nuance of the original master tapes.

You will hear the "rawness"of the guitars,the voval quality and the natural distorion of the band as it sounded in the studio.



The Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals); Keith Richards, Brian Jones (guitar); Bill Wyman (bass); Charlie Watts (drums).
Includes the original release liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham.

Audio Remasterers: Jon Astley; Bob Ludwig; Steve Rosenthal; Teri Landi; Pascal Byrne.

12 X 5 includes material recorded by the Stones at Chicago's Chess Studios (home to the band's idols Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf) on their first US tour. Though this document of the group's early R&B period kicks off with a couple of covers from unsurprising sources (Chuck Berry's "Around and Around,") Mick and Keith waste little time in displaying their own compositional acumen. The acoustic-based, bluesy "Good Times, Bad Times" harkens back to even earlier, more seminal Stones influences than Berry, as does the instrumental "2120 South Michigan Avenue," where the blues-obsessed Jagger's harp is featured a la his hero Little Walter.

The downbeat, Arthur Alexanderish "Congratulations" is an effective expression of romantic melancholy, complete with acoustic guitar solo. The slide guitar chords on "Grown Up Wrong" echo another early blues influence, Elmore James. The milestones on this album are two R&B covers to which the Stones take more than a rote approach, "It's All Over Now" and the majestic "Time Is On My Side," which they make completely their own.


Around And Around
Confessin' The Blues
Empty Heart
Time Is On My Side
Good Times, Bad Times
It's All Over Now
2120 South Michigan Avenue
Under The Boardwalk
Congradulations
Grown Up Wrong
If You Need Me
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