Ronnie Wood recruits Mick Taylor, Bobby Womack, Paul Weller and more for live tribute album to blues great Jimmy Reed
Ronnie's new album MR LUCK: A Tribute to Jimmy Reed - Live at the Royal Albert Hall, is out on the 3rd September. Listen to the first two tracks right now from the link in the bio or in Ronnie's Stories.
All tracks feature the wonderful #MickTaylor, and special guests on the album include @officialbobbywomack, @paulwellerhq and @simplyredofficial's #MickHucknall.
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I am proud to announce that today I have become an ambassador for Turn Up For Recovery.
Turn Up For Recovery’s mission is a subject very close to my heart and I am so honoured to become an ambassador for this brilliant organisation. Turn Up For Recovery bring people together through music to support recovery for addicts, and their friends and family. To become a part of that is my way of giving back, as I am so grateful for all the care and support I've received along the way, in my recovery.
Find out more about Turn Up For Recovery here.
Ronnie's new signed, limited-edition print in support of Turn Up For Recovery, Affirmation 1, featuring the phrase 'When I Take Care Of Myself I Can Achieve Anything' is available here.
Wood said in the note that he was “humbled and honoured” to receive the Freedom of the City of London, before going on to recall his London upbringing.
“As a child, I saw the city from the canals and over the years I’ve seen it from many different perspectives,” he wrote. “Despite my career in music and art taking me all over the world, I am never happier than when coming home to this great city where I was born.
“It is a lovely surprise to be recognised with this award and it has made me, Sally [Humphreys, his wife] and my twin girls Alice and Gracie very proud,” he added.
Congratulations to @ronniewood who was honoured with the Freedom of the City of London! pic.twitter.com/04fByYHOcv
— The Rolling Stones (@RollingStones) April 7, 2021
Recently Ronnie Wood was seen enjoying an outing with wife Sally Humphreys as they went on a shopping spree around Carnaby Street, London, including a visit to the Rolling Stone No.9 store.
Ronnie and Sally made sure to keep themselves safe amid the coronavirus crisis as they both wore face masks while walking through London.The Rolling Stones rocker, 73, and his theatre producer wife, 42, looked smitten as they walked with their arms linked together.
The rocker kept things casual as he a black duffle coat over a grey hooded jumper that he used to cover his head for a low-key look.
The 73-year-old confessed that he now spends his evenings knitting 'endless scarves' instead. Speaking on the Tea With Twiggy podcast he said: "I do knit.
"I used to hold the spool of wool for my mum. "She taught me the plain stitch and I still do it today and I knit endless scarves now."
"I am an espresso man but that is an old leftover habit from rehab.I couldn't do anything else so coffee was the thing." He said he hoped he was a "living walking example of coffee" being good for you.
"Because I drink enough of the stuff," he added.
“Luckily I had a valve that cut off, if it was going to be too much in my body, that said, ‘No don’t go over, don’t cross this line otherwise you will not make it’.”
The legendary musician, who has beaten lung cancer, previously boasted about his out-of-control binges on alcohol, cocaine and heroin.
