And the Jury’s Still Out
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And the Jury’s Still Out
The Rolling Stones are approaching 60 years of recording, a career that spans the album-rock era and (with only a few others) helped set the direction for what we now view as classic rock.
The band long ago ceded that responsibility, following rather than driving trends, but it’s kept recording, kept touring — to decidedly mixed results since the Seventies. A new album is on its way — their 31st — and the single (and lead-off track) “Angry” is out.
 The song is a mid-tempo rocker, that feels very un-Stones-like, despite the unmistakable Jagger voice and the guitar sound, though Keith Richards and Ronnie Woods’ playing feels tamped down, as do Steve Jordan’s drums, which are probably the most prevalent sound on the record.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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