Artist: THE ROLLING STONES
Album: VOODOO LOUNGE REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1994/ 2009
EAN/UPS: 06025270157100
Media type: CD

Voodoo Lounge is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in July 1994. As their first new release under their new alliance with Virgin Records, it ended a five-year gap since their last studio album, Steel Wheels in 1989. Voodoo Lounge is also The Rolling Stones' first album without founding bassist Bill Wyman, who departed the line-up in early 1993. In 2009, Voodoo Lounge was remastered and reissued by Universal Music.

Following the release of Keith Richards' Main Offender and Mick Jagger's Wandering Spirit in 1992 and 1993 respectively, both leaders of The Rolling Stones began composing new songs in April 1993, deciding upon Don Was as co-producer for the upcoming sessions. In November, after rehearsing and recording at Ronnie Wood's house in Ireland that September, The Rolling Stones shifted their gear to Windmill Lane Studios in Dublin and began cutting Voodoo Lounge. Although not joining the band officially, Darryl Jones would be taking Bill Wyman's place as the group's regular bassist.

Producer Don Was - noted for his retro rock production sensibilities - was reportedly responsible for pushing the band towards more conventional territory in an attempt to reproduce the archetypal "Rolling Stones" sound, and moving them away from the rockabilly and African grooves they had reportedly been leaning on during the writing and early recording phases of Voodoo Lounge. The result was an essentially classicist recording that drew on the blues, R&B, and country that had informed the Stones classic late 1960s/early 1970s recordings. Although this approach pleased critics and the Stones rock-oriented fanbase, Jagger in particular expressed some dissatisfaction with Was' aesthetic, and would insist on a more diverse, contemporary production cast for the subsequent Bridges to Babylon. Nevertheless, Was (who has produced several Grammy-winning records) remains the Stones producer to this day. After a period of recording in Los Angeles in the first few months of 1994, Voodoo Lounge was complete and The Rolling Stones moved onto the rehearsals for the (yet another massive, worldwide) Voodoo Lounge Tour which would begin in August.

All songs by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

TRACKLIST:

1."Love Is Strong" – 3:50
2."You Got Me Rocking" – 3:35
3."Sparks Will Fly" – 3:16
4."The Worst" – 2:24
5."New Faces" – 2:52
6."Moon Is Up" – 3:42
7."Out of Tears" – 5:27
8."I Go Wild" – 4:23
9."Brand New Car" – 4:15
10."Sweethearts Together" – 4:45
11."Suck on the Jugular" – 4:28
12."Blinded by Rainbows" – 4:33
13."Baby Break It Down" – 4:09
14."Thru and Thru" – 6:15
15."Mean Disposition" – 4:08

LINE-UP:

Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitar, harmonica, maracas, castanets
Keith Richards – electric and acoustic guitar, lead and backing vocals, piano, bass guitar, tambourine
Charlie Watts – drums, tambourine
Ronnie Wood – electric, pedal steel, acoustic, slide, and lap steel guitar, backing vocals

Additional personnel:

Max Baca – bass guitar
David Campbell – string arrangement
Lenny Castro – percussion
Pierre de Beauport – acoustic guitar
Bernard Fowler – backing vocals
Frankie Gavin – fiddle, pennywhistle
Mark Isham – trumpet
Luis Jardim – percussion, shaker
Flaco Jimenez – accordion
Darryl Jones – bass guitar
Phil Jones – percussion
Chuck Leavell – piano, organ, harmonium, harpsichord
David McMurray – saxophone
Ivan Neville – backing vocals, organ
Benmont Tench – organ, piano, accordion
Bobby Womack – backing vocals