The album, which is due on Aug. 9, features 10 songs, with two additional tracks on the CD and digital versions. In addition to covers of Bob Dylan's "Thunder on the Mountain," Taj Mahal's "Light Rain" and John Prine's "Ain't Hurtin' Nobody," Drive My Car includes five songs written or cowritten by Wyman.
"It's not something I do every day, but sometimes I just see a guitar in the corner of the room, pick it up to play around and then something clicks into place," Wyman noted in a press release announcing the album.
Drive My Car was recorded in Wyman's home studio with guitarist Terry Taylor and drummer Paul Beavis. "I think the biggest influence on the album as a whole is J.J. Cale, his laidback groove has always appealed to me," Wyman noted.
"Friends I've played it to have said things like, 'It really sounds like you,' and that makes me happy. I've never tried to be anyone else - I’m Bill, basically."
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Until his departure in 1993, Bill Wyman was the straight-laced, string-thrumming bassist of The Rolling Stones.
However, there was one aspect of life in a rock ‘n’ roll band that Wyman enjoyed very much; women. And it would be this passion that would lead to Wyman, then 52, marrying the then 18-year old Mandy Smith.
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