Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap (Virgin 1-90973)
Gene Santoro, Downbeat, January 1989
IN A WEIRD but fulfilling way this is just about the record everyone — every diehard Stones freak, that is — hoped Keith Richards would make, especially since Glimmer Twin alter ego Mick Jagger spent his two solo efforts mining the sterile sounds of MTV-type pop. This album is like Keith's face: lined and pitted and craggy and battered. Not airbrushed. Rock & roll with a vengeance and a brain, a raw-edged spontaneity that is carefully crafted to kick ass.
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