Eagle

Ronnie Wood’s 35-year association with The Rolling Stones and the “Glimmer Twins” has often overshadowed the fact that the man has always had his own formidable songwriting and performance chops. After tours of duty in the Jeff Beck Group and The Faces, Wood rejuvenated the Stones live gigs with a wonderfully confident mixture of angular rhythms and sharp musical taste. On I Feel Like Playing, the singer/guitarist’s first solo album since 2002, Wood penned 11 originals, ranging from warm and mellow to grounded and ballsy, supplemented by an engaging Bernard Fowler vocal-driven “Spoonful.” Wood has some heady help as Flea, Slash, Billy Gibbons and Eddie Vedder lend support to an album that is both refreshing and long overdue from the Stones stalwart.