Open All Night.

Many of us probably have a list of people with whom we've imagined carousing until dawn. For me, draining the glass with Bob Dylan, Babe Ruth, Frank Sinatra, Hunter S. Thompson, Muhammad Ali, and Keith Richards sounds about right. 

Back in 1983, Richards got married in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on his 40th birthday. Of course he brought his guitar...     

From the U.K.'s Independent: 

There is an amusing tale about the fan who once confessed that his devotion to Bob Dylan was so limitless he would happily listen to an album of the great man heavy-breathing – yet who still admitted he felt let down by Dylan's middle-of-the-road covers collection Self Portrait. This is brought vividly to mind while listening to The Complete Honeymoon Tapes, a Keith Richards bootleg freely available online, in which Keef sets about some of his favourite songs armed only with an acoustic guitar and that Woodbine croak of a voice. It's not a pretty contest, to be frank, and one from which music does not emerge the winner.

The mere fact of Richards singing standards such as "Sweet Dreams" and "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now" has led some excitable listeners to conclude that the Stones' creative mainspring is planning an album of old favourites, along the lines of Rod Stewart's Great American Songbook series. But these are clearly not serious recordings, nor even demos for planned recordings, just the sounds of an off-duty star relaxing in his hotel room, cracking open a bottle of Jack, firing up a fat one, and strumming a few childhood memories to pass the time.

Click here for the Complete Honeymoon Tapes and hear a hopeless romantic's late-night from-the-soul music.

Click here for a bootleg from '77-'81; sounds late again...