This is a set of covers of Rolling Stones songs. Okay, that’s only so accurate. I think it’s more like re-workings or re-inventions of Stones tunes. Whatever way you put it, though, these acoustic guitar based renditions are great. I like every single one of them. There are even a couple that I might like better than the originals.

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Somehow in this acoustic telling this seems to have more of a groove. It really works well with bits of country and other styles in the mix. 

This has a feeling much like a breezy kind of 1960s folk rock tune. It’s bright and sunny. It’s also fun.

Here’s one that feels more like a high energy acoustic blues tune. It rocks out pretty well and has a cool instrumental section.

A symphonically tinged folk sound makes up this number. It feels very much like something that would have come out of the folk rock movement of the 1960s. 

Here’s a fun groove that’s more rock than it is folk, but still has plenty of both in the mix.

An easy going groove makes up this tune. Somehow I’m reminded just a little of Randy Newman on this. Still, the arrangement is pretty soulful.

 I’ve always loved this song. I hate to say it, but it seems like the kind of song I would write. If I had written it, though, it would probably have been somewhere between this folky rendition and the original Stones take on it. Either way, I still love this song and feel a real kinship to it.

This version is pretty and gentle and quite folk meets prog.