Next On Vinyl Monday...

To follow up 1968's Beggars Banquet, The Rolling Stones released the second in a series of four classic albums that solidified the band as one of the greatest of all time. Originally titled Automatic Changer (which explains the cover), Let It Bleed was released in December of 1969, and Side Two...which we're hitting this morning...is unique for a couple of reasons:

1) It's the final work founding member Brian Jones did with the band, and none of it on guitar. Jonesey plays the autoharp on You Got The Silver, and some percussion on Midnight Rambler, but that's it. In the middle of the recording process for the album, the band booted him out...and in July he was dead at 27 (making him also one of the founding members of rock's infamous "27 Club"). His replacement, Mick Taylor, played on two tracks that ended up on side one.

2) Keith Richards sang lead vocals for the first time on an album, on You Got The Silver. If you've never heard it, you're in for a treat Monday morning.

3) All nine songs were written by Mick & Keith, also a bit of a departure as they usually threw at least one good blues cover in for good measure.

4) On the inside of the album cover, you are instructed to play the album very loud. And so we shall, as Vinyl Monday presents:

The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed

Side 2

Midnight Rambler

You Got The Silver

Monkey Man

You Can't Always Get What You Want