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Exile on Main Street  *Written by Eoghan M. Lyng - a culture writer whose music pieces can be read in Record Collector, We Are Cult and Culture Sonar and whose film pieces can be read at Letterboxd, Taste of Cinema, The Playlist and The Irish Post. Interviews include Rat Scabies, Arthur Matthews, Kristin Hersh, Steve Hackett, Denny Laine and Roger McGuinn. It is often the trait of a great band that they can be remembered for one masterful album alone. For Led Zeppelin , this album was their fourth album. For Dire Straits , it was Brothers in Arms . Though some fans would argue that Aftermath and Beggars Banquet show Mick Jagger and Keith Richards at the peak of their songwriting skills, popular opinion shows that it is Exile On Main Street that is their emerald jewel (or maybe their Ruby Tuesday ). Listening to this great album I can fully understand why. What makes Exile truly unique is that it the band produced their best work at a time when many of their sixties peer...