When the Rolling Stones crafted “Exile on Main Street,” “we were hunkered down in an improvised bunker in a foreign country with a truck as a control room,” Keith Richards says with a gruff laugh. “It was basically a last stand.”
And a lasting one. “Exile,” a 1972 landmark considered a creative peak by a band on a hot streak, returns to stores Tuesday to launch a catalog re issue campaign.
By Edna Gundersen, McClatchy-Tribune – USA Today – The Vancouver Sun