SMALL FACES – EXCLUSIVE!
ON THIS MONTH’S CD
UNCUT and the SMALL FACES present...
THIS month’s CD features a slew of rare Small Faces goodies, largely pooled from Kenney Jones’s recently revived Nice Records.
“I started the label in the ’90s to raise money for Ronnie Lane when he had multiple sclerosis,” Jones tells Uncut. “I put it to bed after he died, but have since thought, ‘No, I want to do something with this.’”
The first Nice release was 2021’s Live 1966, an extraordinary document of Small Faces’ two sets at the Twenty Club in Mouscron, Belgium, selections from which comprise the first half of our CD. “It was one of the first gigs we’d ever done abroad,” recalls Jones. “We always loved jamming and that gig is really what the Small Faces were all about. You can hear why Led Zeppelin became big fans – Page and Plant in particular. The spirit of those early days never left us.”
Also included are rare mixes, cuts from the newly expanded edition of 1969’s The Autumn Stone and an in-progress version of Tim Hardin’s “Red Balloon”, exclusive to Uncut. All of it carries Small Faces’ unique imprint. “We had so much chemistry,” Jones adds. “There was a kind of telepathic understanding between the four of us. We just always knew what was needed.”