The older he gets, the more Ronnie Wood's ragged wheeze makes him sound like a cigarette-wrecked Randy Newman. This is not a dis. That broken, damaged voice is what makes the Stones guitarist's first solo studio disc in nine years shine. He's gathered a who's who of collaborators — old Faces mate Ian McLagan, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, R&B vet Bobby Womack and relative youngsters Slash and Flea — for a set that includes a Seventies-style country-rock ballad ("Why You Wanna Go and Do a Thing Like That For"), chunky rockers ("Thing About You") and one hot blues standard ("Spoonful"). Nothing world-changing here, but the performances are down, dirty and heartfelt.

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“My President”

Young Jeezy teams up with Nas on this track, in which he compare his own success with the idea of an African-American winning the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election. "When I pulled up in my car, that s--- was unbelievable to people in my neighborhood because they were like, 'We grew up with him. How the hell did he accomplish this?'" he told Rolling Stone. "I feel like it was the same way with Obama. I grew up all this time, but I've never seen a black man this close to running this country."