Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#397 in the Series) is The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers Before I go into a quick recap on The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, let me take a moment to once again discuss what Whale Wednesdays are all about. As you most likely know, we here at Cool Album of the Day like to showcase many albums from different genres. Since most of you are real audiophiles, most of the time you’ll be seeing titles that you know, but not always. I’m sure most of you specialize in one area or another.  Hopefully you’re seeing some names that you may not be familiar with at all, or most likely, you’ll see names that you’ve...

We’re you hoping for a new Rolling Stones album this year, or early next? Well, that’s not going to happen according to Keith Richards. However, there is some very good news as Keith confirmed on the Jimmy Fallon show that he does plan a new X-Pensive Winos album. This would be their third following 1988’s Talk is Cheap and 1992’s Main Offender. When asked about him trying to get the Stones together, he told Fallon “I’m trying to nail them down but I don’t want to crucify them, if you know what I mean.” Actually Keith, I don’t know what that means, but I get the idea. He did say that he and Winos’ drummer Steve Jordan have already been...

Today’s Cool Album of the Day (#297 in the Series, and #21 in the Live, Saturday Night Series) is Steve Earle and the Dukes, Shut Up and Die Like an Aviator. Steve Earle kicked off his career with two “4-Star”- country-rock, Americana, singer-songwriter styled albums. Then he decided to change his band and resurfaced with a bit of a harder sound.  That sound was evident on Copperhead Road and also on The Hard Way.  This live album was released from recordings of that tour. I loved those first two albums and was quite glad that a good chunk of them are represented here. We needed some good live versions of “Guitar Town, Someday, Good Ol’ Boy (Gettin’ Tough), I Ain’t...