Ronnie Wood

At a time when much of rock & roll is dominated by vapid slickness and commercial
calculation, Ron Wood seems to have a raw, roughhouse niche all to himself. And that's just
as well, because nobody fills it better. Gimme Some Neck is the third in a series of solo
records that began in 1974 with I've Got My Own Album to Do, followed a year later by Now
Look. The earlier LPs were extremely pleasant surprises whose high degree of... More >

Ron sounds more Dylany on his new Dylan ditty than Dylan has in a while, and he sounds even better on a song about getting saved (which Dylan didn't write, praise the Lord). He's also induced Roy Thomas Baker to let him and the boys off with a mix as dirty as their rock and roll. But this is a man who should never sing two songs in a row. And he should stay away from lyrics about the perfidy of woman, too. (Grade: B-)