Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap (1988)

Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap (1988)

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Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap

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Side one

"Big Enough" – 3:17

"Take It So Hard" – 3:11

"Struggle" – 4:10

"I Could Have Stood You Up" – 3:12

"Make No Mistake" – 4:53

"You Don't Move Me" – 4:48

Side two

"How I Wish" – 3:32

"Rockawhile" – 4:38

"Whip It Up" – 4:01

"Locked Away" – 5:48

"It Means a Lot" – 5:22

2019 reissue bonus tracks

"Blues Jam" (Keith Richards, Steve Jordan, Mick Taylor, Joey Spampinato, Johnnie Johnson, Chuck Leavell, Bobby Keys) – 4:39

"My Babe" (Willie Dixon) – 3:13

"Slim" (Richards, Jordan, Taylor, Spampinato, Johnson, Keys) – 10:18

"Big Town Playboy" (Little Johnny Jones) – 4:19

"Mark on Me" – 5:51

"Brute Force" – 4:00

Keith Richards Band Members / Musicians

Keith Richards – lead vocals, guitar

Steve Jordan – drums, percussion, bass on "Take It So Hard", backing vocals

Sarah Dash – backing vocals, duet on "Make No Mistake"

Charley Drayton – bass guitar, drums on "Take It So Hard", backing vocals

Ivan Neville – piano, keyboards, backing vocals

Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone on "I Could Have Stood You Up" and "Whip It Up"

Waddy Wachtel – acoustic, electric, and slide guitar, production consultant, backing vocals

Bootsy Collins – bass guitar on "Big Enough"

Michael Doucet – violin on "Locked Away"

Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural – accordion on "You Don't Move Me", "Rockawhile" and "Locked Away"

Johnnie Johnson – piano on "I Could Have Stood You Up"

Chuck Leavell – organ on "I Could Have Stood You Up"

Maceo Parker – alto saxophone on "Big Enough"

Joey Spampinato – bass guitar on "I Could Have Stood You Up" and "Rockawhile"

Mick Taylor – guitar on "I Could Have Stood You Up"

Bernie Worrell – organ on "Big Enough" and "You Don't Move Me", clavinet on "Make No Mistake" and "Rockawhile"

Jimmi Kinnard – bass guitar on "Make No Mistake"

Patti Scialfa – backing vocals

The Memphis Horns – horns

Willie Mitchell – horn arrangements

Talk Is Cheap is the debut solo album by Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, released in 1988. Recorded and released during a long-standing falling out with Mick Jagger, Talk Is Cheap received positive reviews upon its release.

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943), often referred to during the 1960s and 1970s as Keith Richard, is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder, guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. Rolling Stone magazine called Richards the creator of "rock's greatest single body of riffs" on guitar and ranked him fourth on its list of 100 best guitarists in 2011. The magazine lists fourteen songs that Richards wrote with the Rolling Stones' lead vocalist Mick Jagger on its "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

Keith Richards Discography - Studio albums

Talk Is Cheap (1988)

Main Offender (1992)

Crosseyed Heart (2015)

Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988

Vintage Vinos (compilation)