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Sugar Blue steps into the world of The Rolling Stones like a spark that refuses to behave, bringing raw blues fire into their late-70s groove-heavy evolution. Instead of sticking to polished studio perfection, the band leans into street-level energy, where chance encounters and improvisation matter just as much as structure. Mick Jagger embraces that unpredictability, shaping space for harmonica bursts that cut through the mix like they’ve got their own agenda. It’s a crossover moment where blues tradition crashes into rock stardom without asking permission. The result is loose, loud, and oddly addictive, proving the Stones were still chasing new edges even when they didn’t need to.
American blues harpist (born James Joshua ‘Jimmie’ Whitin, New York City, 1949) Following advice from bluesman Memphis Slim, Blue traveled in the late to Paris, France where, according to Ronnie Wood, he was found by Mick Jagger busking on the Parisian streets and or the metro (subway). “He told me, ‘Well, son, if I were you, and you were my age, I’d sit on my laurels and just stay here (in Paris), make little gigs and do sessions, but since you are a young man and still have a lot to learn, I would suggest that you go and hang out with people like Big Walter and Junior Wells and James Cotton. They’re not going to be around forever, and you will learn more from listening to them than you will ever understand from a record’”
*By Marcelo Sonaglioni Sugar Blue was part on both the Some Girls sessions (on Miss You, Some Girlsand Everything Is Turning To Gold) as well as on the Emotional Rescueones (Send It to Me, Down in the Hole) He later recorded his own version of Miss You in his Blue Blazesalbum, released in 1994. He also joined the Stones onstage (always on Miss You) at the Rosemont Horizon, Chicago, on Nov. 24 1981 and in East Troy on Sept. 11 1989 (during the band’s Steel Wheels Tour), additionally playing with The New Barbarians at their Knebworth Festival performance (aug. 11 1979, on three songs:Breathe On Me, I Can Feel The Fire and Worried Life Blues), and then with Bo Diddley and Ronnie Wood (The Gunslingers Tour) at the Riviera Night Club, Chicago, on Nov. 5 1987.
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