(RS 905 - Sept. 19, 2002)

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...

Ron Wood brings to his second solo album the same enthusiasm he exudes with the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart and the Faces. While there are some rough edges here, with some of the melodies only half formed, Now Look, like last year's I've Got My Own Album to Do, is as fresh and buoyant a supersession as anyone has ever done.

Wood's playing with the Stones actually gives a false picture of his...

Ron Wood, whose role in the Faces has paralleled Keith Richard's function in the Rolling Stones, has put together what is less a solo album than a friendly, late-night session involving the front men of the Faces and the Stones. But I've Got My Own Album To Do is still a Wood album in that he wrote six of the 11 songs (including "Far East Man" with George Harrison), and he's the only musician...