I'll start working on it in the morning. Just for you Neo.

Regardless, the country Rolling Stones are dull. They should have stuck to their wheelhouse.

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/c2/c2c2a...6a4e17ad9a.jpg

Nah, they had quite a few very successful, musically speaking, stabs at it.

P.S. Growing up, my dad was all about country. He and my stepmom's favorite song was Charlie Rich's "Behind Closed Doors". The first time I tried to explain how awesome rock guitar was (14-ish) he pulled out a Chet Atkins record and shut me the **** up big time. He had a HUGE collection of stuff both old and new at the time (mid 70s), and spent a few years turning me on to a lot of awesome stuff.

I know me my country bros.

Spinning Chet Atkins records with your dad? That’s not a country music education. Whiskey fueled beatdowns with Ernest Tubb playing. That’s how you learn about country.

NO. It was a guitar education at the time. You swung and totally missed at my point.

^ Despite Norg's grammar, this comes closest to my uninformed opinion. Uninformed because while I grew up on their good-at-the-time 60s singles, I never commited to buying an album. My main problems are with how Jagger dominated the band. It feels like every song turns into a vehicle for him to project his faux-American bad-ass sexuality. That's not a celebration I find interesting tbh.

(nice gif, btw, MicShazam!)

After re-visiting these 4 albums I think the reason it's easy to label a lot of them country is the combination of Jagger's incessant "twang" in his vocals (really obnoxious after a while), and the heavy use of slide guitar by Richards and Taylor. The lists below are based on the songs - chord progressions, arraignments, tones, rhythm section, and basic vibe.

Each of these songs (sans Jagger and slide) I'd label either blues (mainly Chicago style), American Rock n Roll, gospel, pop, or British style rock.

Beggar's Banquet (the most Country of the 4)
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Parachute Woman
- Street Fighting Man
- Stray Cat Blues

Let it Bleed
- Gimme Shelter
- Live with Me
- Midnight Rambler
- Monkey Man
- You Can't Always Get What You Want

Sticky Fingers
- Brown Sugar
- Sway
- Can't You Hear Me Knocking
- You Gotta Move
- B1tch
- Moonlight Mile

Exile
- Rocks Off
- Rip This Joint
- Shake Your Hips (ZZ Top, I'm looking at you)
- Casino Boogie
- Tumbling Dice
- Torn and Frayed
- Happy
- Turd on the Run
- Ventilator Blues
- I Just Want to See His Face
- All Down the Line
- Stop Breaking Down
- Shine a Light
- Soul Survivor

I think the only thing that sucks about the Stones is that Fergie cover of Gimme Shelter.