For decades, Mick Jagger had been singing “Time Is On My Side.” Then came the moment rock history seemed to circle all the way back — he finally sang it beside Irma Thomas, the woman whose 1964 recording helped put the song on the map before The Rolling Stones made it their own. At New Orleans Jazz Fest, Jagger welcomed the Soul Queen of New Orleans onto the stage, and suddenly a familiar Stones classic carried an entirely different weight. Thomas had once stopped singing it after audiences mistakenly assumed she was covering the Stones. Now there was no explaining necessary: the two voices, two histories and two sides of one legendary song were finally standing together. More than 60 years in the making — this wasn’t simply a duet. It was a musical full-circle moment.
The Rolling Stones hit Jazz Fest this year with a bang. Mick Jagger joined forces with Irma Thomas for a historic duet of the hit classic “Time…