From 1968 Beggar’s Banquet, 1969 Let it Bleed, 1971 Sticky Fingers through 1972’s Exile on Main Street, the Stones recorded some of the best blues-influenced rock music.
@dennis, if you’re interested, keep an eye open at your library for the Cambridge Companion to The Rolling Stones, released yesterday. I heard one of the authors (I believe it was Coelho) on NPR and ordered it myself. He’s a professor at BU, and talked about how the Stones introduced so many different styles of music to the world.
“The first collection of academic essays devoted to the Rolling Stones. Designed for use by students, rock scholars, and serious fans, it discusses the Stones' music and history from a wide range of interpretive perspectives, and covers the entire span of the group's career.”
About the Author
Victor Coelho is Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Early Music Studies at Boston University, as well as a lutenist and guitarist. His previous publications include Instrumentalists and Renaissance Culture (with Keith Polk, Cambridge, 2016), The Cambridge Companion to the Guitar (Cambridge, 2003), and Performance on Lute, Guitar, and Vihuela (Cambridge, 1997).
John Covach is Director of the University of Rochester Institute for Popular Music, Professor of Music in the College Music Department, and Professor of Theory at the Eastman School of Music. He is the principal author of the college textbook What's That Sound?: An Introduction to Rock Music (5th edition, 2018) and has co-edited Understanding Rock (1997), American Rock and the Classical Tradition (2000), Traditions, Institutions, and American Popular Music (2000), and Sounding Out Pop (2010).