Cause all you women is low down gamblers, cheatin' like I don't know how, but baby there's fever in the funk house now.
In the eighth grade I learned about pirating music; however none of the early websites were very full proof. I never even got Napster to download, and to get a song to download from Bear Share, I had to be be wearing my lucky underpants. Lime Wire worked well for a while, but I didn't discover that one until high school.
In my new excitement of downloading music, I asked my parents what they wanted and my dad asked if I could download The Rolling Stone's 1972 album "Exile On Main Street," but of course I couldn't find it. When I couldn't download it I decided I would just go buy the album at a record store and give it to my dad for Father's Day, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
I have no idea why it was such an obscure album to find, but I remember finding the album at a record store in the Main Place Mall in Santa Anna right after 8th grade graduation, and being relieved as I thought I would never find it.
I liked the Rolling Stones then, but I knew there commercial hits, which are still some of my favorite songs, but if my dad has taught me anything about music it's that the commercial hits aren't the best songs.
Tumbling Dice, was rated by Spin Magazine as the 3rd greatest single of all time, and it was the first single on the album, so either it was destined to be run into the ground as many singles are, or it was a front runner for greatness. I would like to believe it's the second option.
The song about a gambler who cannot manage to remain loyal to a woman, isn't an easy story to remove from the song through Mick Jagger's mumble. But really none of that matters with it's bluesy riffs and soul full background vocals by Clydie King and Vanetta Fields.
So, if you consider yourself a fan of The Stones, but you haven't given this gem of this song––or album––a good listening to, I would highly suggest it.
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