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Vinyl LP pressing. This is the result of some of Bill Wyman's rare visits to the recording studio singing and performing his own post-Rolling Stones material. Originally a 2015 , it was Bill Wyman's first solo album in 33 years. The album wears it's influences on it's sleeve - Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, JJ Cale - and there's more than a passing nod to Bill's own English background. It is that rare thing, a meld of styles and genres that actually work together - uplifting in a jaunty, dancey way and pensive in a bluesy, narrative way. As might be expected from one of the world's best known bass players, Back To Basics drives along with a rhythmic muscularity, and then slows the pace for more autobiographical lyric and melody. It is an album that warrants repeated play. It is also an album that was long overdue Album Tracks 1. What & How & If & When & Why 2. I Lost My Ring 3. Love, Love, Love 4. Stuff 5. Running Back to You 6. She's Wonderful 7. Seventeen 8. I'll Pull You Through 9. November 10. Just a Friend of Mine 11. It's a Lovely Day 12. I Got Time
