A new compilation celebrating longtime Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood’s 60-year music career will be released on September 26. Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025 will be available as a two-CD set featuring 38 tracks and a two-LP vinyl collection boasting 20 songs.
Fearless features highlights from the various bands and artists with whom Wood has recorded, as well as from his own solo releases. The 78-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s work with The Birds, The Creation, the Jeff Beck Group, the Faces, Rod Stewart, and, of course, The Rolling Stones is represented on the CD compilation. The majority of the songs on Fearless were written or co-written by Wood.
The retrospective ends with four previously unreleased recordings by Ronnie, his first new songs since 2010. One of those tracks, a cover of “You’re So Fine,” a 1956 R&B tune originally recorded by The Falcons, is available now as an advance digital single. The track features Imelda May on backing vocals.
Fearless also includes an extensive new essay penned by music writer and author Paul Sexton, who has interviewed Wood and his Stones bandmates many times over the years.
The CD version of Fearless begins with a “You’re on My Mind,” a 1964 song Wood wrote for his early group The Birds. That’s followed by “The Girls Are Naked,” a 1968 tune Ronnie co-wrote during his brief tenure with The Creation. The LP collection opens with “Plynth (Water Down the Drain),” a tune Wood co-wrote with Stewart and keyboardist Nicky Hopkins that appeared on the Jeff Beck Group’s classic 1969 album Beck-Ola.
More About the Songs on Fearless
The CD and vinyl versions of Fearless both include includes such Faces classics as “Stay with Me” and “Ooh La La.” They also feature the Stewart solo gems “Gasoline Alley” and “Every Picture Tells a Story.”
In addition, the compilation boasts some interesting Wood collaborations from his solo releases. Among them is “Far East Man,” a song he co-wrote with George Harrison” that’s featured on Ronnie’s 1974 solo debut, I’ve Got My Own Album to Do. Another solo tune from the compilation, “I Can Say She’s Alright” (1975) was co-written with R&B legend Bobby Womack.
Fearless also features “Thing About You,” which Wood co-wrote with ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and longtime Rolling Stones backing singer Bernard Fowler. It originally appeared on Ronnie’s 2010 album, I Feel Like Playing.
Several Rolling Stones tunes Wood co-wrote with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are featured on Fearless as well. They include “Dance (Pt. 1),” “Everything Is Turning to Gold,” “No Use in Crying,” and “Pretty Beat Up.
The other new Wood songs featured on the compilation are a new original tune called “Mother of Pearl” and covers of the 1961 Ernie K-Doe R&B classic “A Certain Girl” and Jamaican-born singer Hopeton Lewis’s 1966 rocksteady hit “Take It Easy.”
The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde is featured on Wood’s rendition of “A Certain Girl.”
The four new tracks were co-produced by Wood’s son Jesse and in-demand studio whiz Sean Genockey.
More About Fearless and Wood
The release of Fearless comes on the heels of Wood’s 50th anniversary as a member of The Rolling Stones. The album can be pre-ordered now.
Wood recently was a guest performer at Stewart’s highly touted concert during the 2025 Glastonbury Festival on June 29. One of the two songs Ronnie played with Rod was “Stay with Me.”
Wood also made a surprise appearance on July 5 at Black Sabbath’s and Ozzy Osbourne “Back to the Beginning” farewell concert in Birmingham, U.K. Ronnie played the blues classic “The Train Kept A-Rollin’” as part of a one-off supergroup that also included Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.
Fearless: Anthology 1965-2025 CD Track List:
CD 1
The Birds (1964)
- “You’re on My Mind” (Ronnie Wood)
The Creation (1968)
- “The Girls Are Naked”
Jeff Beck Group, from Beck-Ola (1969)
- “Plynth (Water Down the Drain)”*
Faces, from First Step (1970)
- “Flying”*
Rod Stewart, from Gasoline Alley (1970)
- “Gasoline Alley”*
Faces, from Long Player (1971)
- “Had Me a Real Good Time”
Rod Stewart, from Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
- “Every Picture Tells a Story”*
Faces, from A Nod’s as Good as a Wink … to a Blind Horse (1971)
- “Miss Judy’s Farm”
- “Stay with Me”*
- “Too Bad”
Rod Stewart, from Never a Dull Moment (1972)
- “True Blue”
Faces, from Ooh La La (1973)
- “Ooh La La”*
Ronnie Wood, from I’ve Got My Own Album to Do (1974)
- “I Can Feel the Fire”*
- “Mystifies Me”
- “Far East Man”*
Ronnie Wood, from Now Look (1975)
- “Breathe on Me”
- “I Can Say She’s Alright”*
- “Now Look”
CD 2
The Rolling Stones, from Black and Blue (1976)
- “Hey Negrita”
Ronnie Wood & Ronnie Lane, from Mahoney’s Last Stand (Original Soundtrack) (1976)
- “Just for a Moment”
Ronnie Wood, from Gimme Some Neck (1979)
- “Lost and Lonely”
- “Seven Days”
The Rolling Stones, from Emotional Rescue (1980)
- “Dance (Pt. 1)”*
The Rolling Stones, from Sucking in the Seventies (1981)
- “Everything Is Turning to Gold”*
The Rolling Stones, from Tattoo You (1981)
- “Black Limousine”*
- “No Use in Crying”*
Ronnie Wood, from 1234 (1981)
- “Outlaws”
The Rolling Stones, from Undercover (1983)
- “Pretty Beat Up”*
Ronnie Wood, from Slide on This (1992)
- “Somebody Else Might”
Ronnie Wood, from Not for Beginners (2001)
- “This Little Heart” (Ronnie Wood)
- “Whadd’ya Think”*
Ronnie Wood, from I Feel Like Playing (2010)
- “I Gotta See”
- “Thing About You”*
- “Why You Wanna Go Do a Thing Like That”
Ronnie Wood, previously unreleased (2025)
- “Mother of Pearl”*
- “A Certain Girl” (featuring Chrissie Hynde)*
- “Take It Easy”*
- “You’re So Fine”*
* = also appears on two-LP version of Fearless.
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