In praise of "All Down the Line"

I went through the tenth grade with my hair uncombed, under some misapprehension that it brought me that much closer to Keith Richards. Beside the point (less) if he wrote the words for this, (more) if he didn't. Either way, yr boy Mick sings the shit out of lines like "I need a sanctified girl with a sanctified mind to help me out right now" (thanks to lyricsfre@k.com) and "Bust bust bust another bottle yeah." Not the perfect first single (as MJ supposedly wished at the time), but a great intro into the fourth side of "Exile," which followed with a genius Robert Johnson move and two of the Stones' greatest mood pieces. And Stones and mood were made for each other like crackas and cheese.