Bill has selected a real Christmas treat for fans – a festive song in the shape of Santa Baby with the divine Beverley Skeete on vocals. Happy Christmas indeed!
What a way to welcome in the yuletide season: a wonderful performance of Santa Baby performed by Beverley Skeete and taken from the Bill Wyman’s Rhythm Kings album Studio Time.
Listen to Santa Baby below:
Buy Studio Time from Bill’s official online store.
This special set of studio recordings, the first ones to be issued since 2004, gathers up fifteen outtakes from eight different sessions, including two songs from as far back as March 1987 (before the actual formation of the Rhythm Kings).
These previously overlooked and unheard gems have been newly mixed for this album by Bill Wyman and Terry Taylor. The booklet contains all the musician credits.
It’s a very eclectic selection of songs, from Midnight Oil to Canned Heat to Dan Hicks, via classics by Willie Dixon, Slim Harpo, Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Jordan and Don Covay, and some originals – there’s a solo song by Georgie Fame, “Skiing Blues”, and “Jazz Walk”, a Wyman/Fame co-write.
Bill Wyman put together his ten-piece Rhythm Kings ensemble after leaving the Rolling Stones in 1992. The band has a core rhythm section, but features a revolving combination of all-star guest front men and women. These recordings feature the talents of Gary Brooker, Georgie Fame, Beverley Skeete, Terry Taylor, Mike Sanchez, Andy Fairweather Low, Martin Taylor, Chris Stainton and Albert Lee.
Buy Studio Time from Bill’s official online store.
Merry Christmas from Bill to all his fans…