Anthology
BMG
8/10
CHARLIE WATTS wasn’t the first Stone to go solo – that honour goes to Bill Wyman in 1975. But, two years later, in an event that seems to have gone largely unrecorded in Stones folklore, Watts found himself in front of 200 punters at the Swindon Arts Centre, playing blues and jazz standards with a band featuring the local boogie-woogie pianist and singer Bob Hall. “This is a one-off thing,” Watts told the at the time. “I have never really played with this sort of band before, although I used to play with bluesmen like Alexis Korner in the early days.”
