Talk Is Cheap and Main Offender (the first two solo albums from Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards)
are finally getting a digital release on all major global digital
services on Aug. 14, 2015. The albums (originally released on Virgin
Records/EMI) will be reissued by Richards' Mindless Records and will be
available for stream and download, according to a press release from
Richards' publicity team. Richards' third studio solo album, Crosseyed Heart, is set for release on Sept. 18, 2015.
Here is more information from the press release about the digital reissues of Talk Is Cheap and Main Offender:
Richards' first solo album, Talk Is Cheap, was RIAA-certified gold upon its initial release in 1988. Produced by Richards and partner-in-crime Steve Jordan, the album gave birth to Keith’s X-Pensive Winos band featuring Waddy Wachtel, Ivan Neville, Charley Drayton, and Sarah Dash. Some of the notable players on the record include Patti Scialfa, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor as well as the legendary Willie Mitchell and the Memphis Horns. Writing in 1988 in Rolling Stone, David Fricke called Talk Is Cheap “deliciously long on grooves” and “a joy to be heard in a pop era where too many records are ten-percent inspiration and ninety-percent remixing.” Talk Is Cheap yielded the hits “Take It So Hard,” “You Don’t Move Me” and “Struggle.”
1992 saw the release of Main Offender, which was produced by Richards, Jordan and X-Pensive Wino Waddy Wachtel. Recorded in California’s Bay Area and New York City, Main Offender reunited much of the cast of Talk Is Cheap and produced the hits “Wicked As It Seems” and “Eileen.” Reviewing the record for All Music, Cub Koda described Main Offender as “delightfully focused.”
Here is more information from the press release about the digital reissues of Talk Is Cheap and Main Offender:
Richards' first solo album, Talk Is Cheap, was RIAA-certified gold upon its initial release in 1988. Produced by Richards and partner-in-crime Steve Jordan, the album gave birth to Keith’s X-Pensive Winos band featuring Waddy Wachtel, Ivan Neville, Charley Drayton, and Sarah Dash. Some of the notable players on the record include Patti Scialfa, Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Maceo Parker, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor as well as the legendary Willie Mitchell and the Memphis Horns. Writing in 1988 in Rolling Stone, David Fricke called Talk Is Cheap “deliciously long on grooves” and “a joy to be heard in a pop era where too many records are ten-percent inspiration and ninety-percent remixing.” Talk Is Cheap yielded the hits “Take It So Hard,” “You Don’t Move Me” and “Struggle.”
1992 saw the release of Main Offender, which was produced by Richards, Jordan and X-Pensive Wino Waddy Wachtel. Recorded in California’s Bay Area and New York City, Main Offender reunited much of the cast of Talk Is Cheap and produced the hits “Wicked As It Seems” and “Eileen.” Reviewing the record for All Music, Cub Koda described Main Offender as “delightfully focused.”
