The Rolling Stones’ deluxe reissue of Goats Head Soup has been out for a few weeks. The album was recorded in Kingston, Jamaica in late-1972, though an article in the magazine Rolling Stone notes, “Jagger jokes that the Stones may be the only band to make an album in Jamaica with ‘not the slightest influence of reggae on any of the tracks.'”
The most notable songs from the reggaeless original album were “Angie” and “Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)”, and an instrumental version of the latter is included on the deluxe reissue. Listen to the familiar original, with its timely first verse, and then the instrumental version. And count the “Doo Doo”s. The song title has five, but to my ear they clearly come in sixes.
While the Stones are re-issuing, legendary Kingston band Toots and the Maytals released a brand new album, Got to Be Tough. The band is credited with introducing the term reggae to the world with their 1968 song “Do the Reggay”.
Rolling Stone has an article on Toots Hibbert in this month’s issue, based on a December 2019 interview. Sad to say that just the other day, though, Hibbert was hospitalized – an apparent COVID-19 victim. Listen to the title track from the new album, to the song that gave reggae it’s name, and pray for Toots.
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Nice write-up on the Stones in Kingston-mon. Probably no other rock band has steadily risen in my estimation over the many decades more than the Stones–they are the quintessential rock band. No story about the album cover photo? Where did they get the idea?
Joe, No vouching for the accuracy, but here is the most extensive discussion I’ve found of the history of the album cover art. https://iorr.org/albums/goats-heat-soup2.pdf