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Goats Head Soup – Jimmy Miller’s Final Rolling Stones’ album, Rob Fraboni’s first.

Jimmy Miller inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame November 14, 2026

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Joe Viglione reminisces 1:45 pm May 14, 2026

I was a 20 year old radio listener working at our family corporation when Angie came on for the first time. 9 years later I would become the exclusive world-wide manager of the producer, Jimmy Miller. “Angie” brought tears to a young man’s eyes, it was so exquisitely marvelous, Miller telling me “Mick Jagger is the most singles-conscious artist I know.”

The release on the boxed set, “Criss Cross” has “Brown Sugar” leanings, maybe some “Rough and Twisted” from the 2026 album in there too, the GHS song a prognostication of what was to come 52 years later on Foreign Tongues LP. The production by ProducerAndrew Watt is not the Miller/Fraboni, team. I like “In the Stars,” super chorus, and we are lucky to have the Stones churning out new product as Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and Jim Morrison cannot. Was it that long ago, 1999, that Written In The Stars from Elton John and LeAnn Rimes happened? “Criss Cross” sounds like an out-take from the Exile on Main St. sessions, so the band was continuing in that direction subliminally/subconcsiously at least. Being who they are, the Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.

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But “Scarlet” also has that Golden Age Magic touch of Jimmy Miller, and the new album, as solid as it is, does not have the reckless drive that permeates these classic old takes that sat in the vaults unused for decades.

With Jimmy’s induction into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Nov 14 and the projected lecture tour of Rob Fraboni on the Last Waltz, Jimmy Miller, the Stones, Eric Clapton, Dylan, the Beach Boys etc there will be lots for music fans to absorb. Stay tuned to Joe Viglione’s substack for more information on Jimmy, Rob and thoughts on music in general

“Scarlet” from Goats Head Soup stays in your head where “In The Stars,” not so much, the magic in the grooves of the Miller/Mick Taylor/Rob Fraboni album is that it inserts itself into your head and mind, with great staying power. Foreign Tongues and Hackneyed Diamonds are wonderful outings, but miss the mark when the Rolling Stones formula – like Lou Reed in his solo golden era around the same time, could do no wrong.