At Rolling Stones Carnegie Hall tribute show, a range of stars perform Jagger-Richards classics

Hiding under so many classic rock and pop songs by the Rolling Stones lie gnarly blues, folk and country roots.

That’s what the most inventive and probingnike outlet san marcos
stars at Tuesday night’s tribute concert to the Jagger-Richards’ juggernaut at Carnegie Hall brought to light.

Rosanne Cash delivered “Gimmie Shelter”cole haan nike air sandals
as a swampy Delta salute. Taj Mahal found the blues grind behind “Honky Tonk Women,” while Rickie Lee Jones wryly performed “Sympathy for the Devil” as Son House might — as a yowling, rural stomp.

The stars gathered at Carnegie for a ritual performed seven times before, organized by the czar behind City Winery, Michael Dorf. Each year, the producer corrals artists to take a run at the catalogue of some musical icon, with past salutes ranging from Neil Young to Joni Mitchell to Simon & Garfunkel. Proceeds go to a variety of charities, most of which support music education for underprivileged children.

This year’s Stones genuflection included a narrower conceit. The 25 or so artists involved — ranging from old hands like Marianne Faithfull and Jackson Browne to younger stars like Peaches and the Mountain Goats — performed songs from one Stones collection: the “Hot Rocks” double disk, a 21-song compilation comprising nike women s marathon 2010
the band’s biggest singles from 1964 to 1971. At Monday’s show, the stars performed all those songs in order, with one exception: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” came first, since its choir — the Young Audiences New York choir — needed to get up early for school the next day.

Their voices, or rather their fine diction, eerily echoed the sound of the original recording. They backed TV on the Radio and the Italian pop star Jovanotti for the song. Though TVOTR swings avant on their own recordings, here they played it straight — too straight.

In fact, most the first half of the show featured too literal takes on the Stones’ canon. Ronnie Spector (on “Time Is on My Side”), David Johansen (on “Get Off of My Cloud”) and Ian Hunter (on “19th Nervous Breakdown”) played by the numbers, offering garage-style salutes to the clearly superior originals.

Since you can’t out-rock the Stones, it’s best to go at the songs with something fresh. Steve Earle did just that with “Mother’s Little Helper,” a song he said was the first he learned to play on guitar. He gave it a hard country edge. The Mountain Goats tore all the psychedelia out of “Paint It Black,” stripping it down to a spare piano and drum to haunting effect. Glen Hansard brought a busker’s energy and pluck to “Under My Thumb,” leaning into its flagrant sexism to make the point.

Some leaps fell hard. Jackson Browne de-sexed “Let’s Spend the Night Together” by performing it acoustically. He neutered it even more than Ed Sullivan did on his famous editing of the title line back in the ’60s. Thespian Juliette Lewis acted her way through a preening “Satisfaction.”

One artist earned the right to play things straight. Former Jagger girlfriend Marianne Faithfull offered her usual older-person’s take on “As Tears Go By.” The song, penned for Faithfull back in ’64, was the band’s first original composition. Faithfull also offered the harrowing classic she wrote with Jagger, “Sister Morphine.”

Inevitably, though, the night’s highlights went to those acts that took the biggest risks. Gomez performed “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” as Crazy Horse might, as an inspired dirge, enlivened by singer Ben Ottewell’s classic-rock rasp. Carolina Chocolate Drops went even further, offering an Appalachian folk take on “Midnight Rambler.” Such moments proved that in a great song you can find anything.

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