Billy Boy is back with them ol' Rolling ones! Yes, this next month, April, sees the release of a tribute to Ian Stewart, keys and roads for the Stones, Boogie 4 Stu. Main artist is English pianist Ben Waters. I've heard a couple of the tracks, and they swing!
On Dylan's Watching the river flow, the whole of the Stones of the 70's and 80's gets together for the first time since -92. Wyman playes a simple, but quite swinging bass line, the one I call 1+1, (root + the opposite, in this case G + D, guess educated musician's got another name for the movement. To confuse further, I also use the term 2+2, what Wyman uses on Everybody needs somebody. Though that's a completely different record).
As the end of Watching.. is beginning, Wyman, in a typical, and groovy (is there anybody out there still using that term "groovy?) way slides his way upwards the neck, but just like a teaser to remind us of what he used to do.
In all, (I llisten to Tribute 4 Stu while writing) a cool, relaxed and swinging record. Maybe even Groovy!
