Exile on Main St. sounds like what rock and roll is meant to be: a bunch of musicians playing a bunch of amazing songs, interacting with each other; a musical conversation, sounds intertwining, drums crackling when not played, amplifiers buzzing, bottles falling, feet dancing, haunted voices murmuring into the microphone and off the microphone, cheers, encouragements, performances without a safety net, without a mask.

Bill Janovitz narrates the fascinating story of perhaps the most significant album by the Rolling Stones, which shaped the sound not only of this iconic band but also, generally, of rock and roll at the beginning of the 1970s.