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About the connection with da SISTA SARAH DASH: .- Born in New Jersey, R&B vocalist's main gig and claim to fame in the 1970s was backing Patti Labelle. - She also started guesting on rock artists' albums, however, like Alice Cooper and David Johansen. - In 1988, Dash was hired by Keith to sing on his first solo album. She went on to guest at some of his shows on his solo tour, and did the same almost simultaneously for shows held by Bo Diddley and Ron Wood. The following year, she contributed vocals to the Stones' Steel Wheels album. In 1992, she did more work on Keith's second solo album. Dash's career since has mostly been low profile. She made another appearance on Keith Richards' third album, Crosseyed Heart, in 2015. Sarah died unexpectedly in September 2021, two days after a stage performance. ABOUT STEVE JORDAN; ( the “New“ Charlie) - Keith meet Steve Jordan first in the late 1970s,... since at that time Jordan was playing drums for the Blues Brothers, amongst other things, with whom Keith and Ron Wood were frequently hanging out (around 1978-80). Jordan also played with numerous artists during those years, such as George Benson, Patti Austin, Taj Mahal and Cat Stevens. One of Jordan's later gigs was playing on the Late Night with David Letterman TV show band in its early years in the early to mid 1980s, before Anton Fig became the permanent drummer. (It's easy to see the Blues Brothers-David Letterman connection: Paul Shaffer, as musical director of Saturday Night Live, was involved heavily with the Blues Brothers project, before leaving SNL for David Letterman.) Jordan established (or re-established) contact with fellow co-New Yorker Keith in those years, appearing during the Dirty Work mixing sessions and contributing to the album. - Keith remembered Jordan and hired him for his production of Aretha Franklin's cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash, and then in his project with Chuck Berry in 1986, giving rise to the Hail! Hail! Rock and Roll movie and album. Afterward Keith enlisted Jordan as his partner in crime for his first solo album, Talk Is Cheap (1988), for which Jordan acted as co-producer, co-composer as well as musician for all the songs. Jordan also accompanied Keith on tour. A song Jordan co-wrote that was left over from those sessions, “ALMOST HEAR YOU SIGH“ was recorded for Steel Wheels by the Stones the following year.!! Steve Jordan and I had done Aretha Franklin's Jumpin' Jack Flash video, and that's where we started to work together, although we had been looking at each other for several years. And Charlie Watts had said, If you're gonna work with somebody else, work with Jordan. I had Charlie's blessing on that one, so that was a great boost. An established X-Pensive Wino, Jordan worked again with Keith on the Main Offender album in 1992, co-producing the album and co-writing most of the material, and participated on the following tour. Since then, Jordan has kept busy working with the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roberta Flack, Neil Young and Johnnie Johnson, among others. Between 2011 and 2014, Jordan helped Keith Richards write and produce his third solo album, Crosseyed Heart (2015). One of the resulting songs from those sessions was rerecorded One More Shot, was re-recorded and released by the Rolling Stones in 2012. In August 2021, he was slotted in on an interim basis at the last minute to replace Charlie Watts for the Rolling Stones' U.S. Tour when the group's drummer became seriously ill, with Charlie's blessing. He was at the drummer's seat when the Rolling Stones went ahead with the tour following Charlie's unexpected passing.
