Release Date: January 29th, 2021Sunset Blvd. Records
Limited to 2000 copies and not available on CD or Digital. In 1988 former ROLLING STONES guitarist Mick Taylor began what was to be a significant series of collaborations with L.A. based Carla Olson, first with their "Live at the Roxy" album Too Hot For Snakes, the centrepiece of which is an extended seven-minute performance of “Sway” included on this album.
It was followed by Olson's Within An Ace, which featured Taylor on seven songs. He appeared on three songs from Reap The Whirlwind and then again on Olson's The Ring of Truth, on which he plays lead guitar on nine tracks, including a twelve-minute version of the song "Winter". This is the best of their collaborations. Including the tracks, "Sway," "See The Light," "Within An Ace," "Loserville," "See The Light," and "Justice."
From Goldminemagazine: Congratulations on Sway: The Best of Carla Olson & Mick Taylor. It is good year for Mick on vinyl.
CARLA OLSON: Thank you. Yes. The Rolling Stones’ Goats Head Soup deluxe package was released this year, too.
I was a Mick Taylor fan prior to his Rolling Stones days, when he was in John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers. I followed all of The Bluesbreakers guitar players. It was a real neck and neck tie for me between Peter Green and Mick Taylor. Then when Mick Taylor joined the Rolling Stones, I thought he added muscle to the group. Mick is a muscular player, bringing power to anyone he plays with, although he is shy on stage.
When I was performing with The Textones, Bob Dylan’s road manager was a big fan, so he came to a number of shows, bringing Bob Dylan, Mick Taylor and others. When it came time to make a video for a song from Bob’s 1983 album Infidels, they suggested that I be in the video, stating that Mick Taylor, who played on the album, wouldn’t be around, and that I play a similar style of music.
I was just a pantomime, but I did have to learn Mick’s parts on “Sweetheart Like You” and I learned them as good as possible. You couldn’t hear me, but it was convincing. When Mick came to one of our Textones shows, he said that he would like to do some recording with me on any project that I was working on. I invited him to come to L.A. to work on an album that I was doing with Gene Clark, but unfortunately Gene passed away before we could finish the album. This evolved into Mick coming and playing on a couple of my songs, and this probably would not have happened had that guy not asked me to be in Bob Dylan’s video.
