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- Artist: The Rolling Stones
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- Release Date: 1965 04
- Total Time: 36:29
- Genre: Rock
Review
Although their third American album was patched together (in the usual British Invasion tradition) from a variety of sources, it's their best early R&B-oriented effort. Most of the Stones' early albums suffer from three or four very weak cuts; Now! is almost uniformly strong start-to-finish, the emphasis on some of their blackest material. The covers of "Down Home Girl," Bo Diddley's vibrating "Mona," Otis Redding's "Pain in My Heart," and Barbara Lynn's "Oh Baby" are all among the group's best R&B interpretations. The best gem is "Little Red Rooster," a pure blues with wonderful slide guitar from Brian Jones (and a number one single in Britain, although it was only an album track in the U.S.). As songwriters, Jagger and Richards are still struggling, but they come up with one of their first winners (and an American Top 20 hit) with the yearning, soulful "Heart of Stone." ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Everybody Needs Somebody to Love | Solomon Burke, Jerry Wexler, Bert Russell | The Rolling Stones | (3:00) |
| Down Home Girl (Lyrics) | Jerry Leiber, |
The Rolling Stones | (4:13) |
| You Can't Catch Me | Chuck Berry | The Rolling Stones | (3:40) |
| Heart of Stone (Lyrics) | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | (2:49) |
| What a Shame (Lyrics) | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | (3:06) |
| Mona (I Need You Baby) | The Rolling Stones | (3:35) | |
| Down the Road a Piece | Don Raye | The Rolling Stones | (2:56) |
| Off the Hook (Lyrics) | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | (2:35) |
| Pain in My Heart | The Rolling Stones | (2:12) | |
| Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin') | The Rolling Stones | (2:09) | |
| Little Red Rooster (Lyrics) | Willie Dixon, |
The Rolling Stones | (3:06) |
| Surprise, Surprise | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards | The Rolling Stones | (2:31) |
