Talk Is Cheap - 1988 UK Virgin label limited edition issue 11-track 3 x 3" CD Set

Rare 1988 UK Virgin label limited edition issue 11-track 3 x 3" CD Set featuring Richards' rootsy and funky hard rockin' solo debut album - recorded with the X-Pensive Winos... Waddy Wachtel, Ivan Neville, Charley Drayton and Steve Jordan, with guest appearances by Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker, the Memphis Horns, Patti Scialfa, and fellow Rolling Stones compadre guitarist Mick Taylor. Talk is Cheap features the singles  Take It So Hard, You Don't Move Me & Struggle 

The 3" CD Singles are mounted on 3" black circular card saperator and foam paddings - come with 12-page 3" illustrated lyric booklet - everything kept in a matt black 3½" diameter skull embossed metal tin... nice.

Condition: 3xVG++ (Discs)/ 2xM (Card Seperators)/ 3xM (Foam Paddings)/M (Booklet)/VG+ (Tin):

Disc are near mint... only faint signs of handling or play - perfect tin interior, paddings, card seperators and booklet - outer tin has minor skull and edge rubbing... a little lower tin bottom creasing as well as minor bottom edge dents - a very nice VG+ packaging.

Tracklisting:

Disc 1:
1. Big Enough 3:17
2. Take It So Hard 3:11
3. Struggle 4:10

Disc 2:
4. I Could Have Stood You Up 3:12
5. Make No Mistake 4:53
6. You Don't Move Me 4:48
7. How I Wish 3:32

Disc 3:
8. Rockawhile 4:38
9. Whip It Up 4:01
10. Locked Away 5:48
11. It Means a Lot 5:22

All songs by Keith Richards and Steve Jordan.
Recorded August 1987 – May 1988 at Air Studios Montserrat, Le Studio, Montreal, Canada

Additional recording studios: 
Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Québec
Bermuda Sound Recording Studios
House Of Music, West Orange, NJ
Royal Recording Studios, Memphis
Studio 900, 900 Broadway Ste 905, New York, NY 10003

Recorded and mixed at The Hit Factory, New York City, New York, USA & Atlantic Studios, The Hit Factory
Mastered at Sterling Sound, Sterling Sound, Inc.,1790 Broadway, New York, NY 10019 USA
Glass Mastered at Nimbus, State Route 629, Guildford Farm, Ruckersville, Virginia 22968, USA

Credits:

The X-Pensive Winos:
Keith Richards – lead vocals, guitar
Steve Jordan – drums, percussion, bass on "Take It So Hard", backing vocals
Sarah Dash – backing vocals, duet on "Make No Mistake"
Charley Drayton – bass guitar, drums on "Take It So Hard", backing vocals
Ivan Neville – piano, keyboards, backing vocals
Bobby Keys – tenor saxophone on "I Could Have Stood You Up" and "Whip It Up"
Waddy Wachtel – acoustic, electric, and slide guitar, production consultant, backing vocals

Additional musicians:
Bootsy Collins – bass guitar on "Big Enough"
Michael Doucet – violin on "Locked Away"
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural – accordion on "You Don't Move Me", "Rockawhile" and "Locked Away"
Johnnie Johnson – piano on "I Could Have Stood You Up"
Chuck Leavell – organ on "I Could Have Stood You Up"
Maceo Parker – alto saxophone on "Big Enough"
Joey Spampinato – bass guitar on "I Could Have Stood You Up" and "Rockawhile"
Mick Taylor – guitar on "I Could Have Stood You Up"
Bernie Worrell – organ on "Big Enough" and "You Don't Move Me", clavinet on "Make No Mistake" and "Rockawhile"
Jimmi Kinnard – bass guitar on "Make No Mistake"
Patti Scialfa – backing vocals
The Memphis Horns – horns
Willie Mitchell – horn arrangements

Technical Credits:
Keith Richards, Steve Jordan – production
Robert Berry, David Dorn, Richard Ealey, Paul Milner, Julio Pena, Roger Talkov – engineer, assistant engineer
Joe Blaney, Joe Ferla, David Kennedy – engineer
Don Smith – engineer, mixing
Joe Blaney – mixing
Greg Calbi – mastering