Everyone but me is getting older and those immortal rock 'n' rollers are staring down some pretty heady numbers. Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts turns 70 on June 2, 2011, just a day after his bandmate Ronald David Wood turned 64. Watts is best known as the drummer for the Rolling Stones. As one of rock 'n' roll's greatest drummers, he prefers jazz.

This list could be 100 tracks long and it wouldn't come close to mentioning all the great work Charlie Watts has done. I listed fifteen tracks that, when played, are clear evidence of Mr. Watts' taste and ability. You likely have your own favorites. By all means, list them below.

Considering that much rock music is built on the idea that more and louder are better, Watts is nearly an anomaly. He never overplays. He never pounds. He lays behind the beat. He would be the worst drummer imaginable for Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden, but he is the only drummer for the Rolling Stones. He has tenure.

Most importantly, he looks so out of place in a

Bob Dylan is one of the most heavily bootlegged artists of all-time. So much so that his record label began a Bootleg Series in 1991. However, there is always more and maybe in time all these recordings will have an official release.

For now, I am unaware that any of these tracks are available commercially. As I am unaware of many things.

10) "Folsom Prison Blues": Out there in the world are collections of the "Basement Tapes" that include a lot more than what made it to the 1975 album. Back in 1967, Bob Dylan and the Band tried just about any song they could vaguely remember. This cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" is so enjoyably loose that you either wish Bob had tried another twenty from Cash's catalog or kept doing this one taking another shot after each take.

9) "Spuriously Seventeen Windows (The Painting By Van Gogh)": This unnamed song Bob worked on in a Denver hotel room in March 1966 allows bootleggers the chance to give it its own title. Considering what Dylan

1971 was a tremendous year for music. Not as good as 1970 or 1969, but better than 1960, 1975, 1983, 1998 and 2003. It should be noted, the quality of a given year is calculated by proprietary software developed by Y! Music. Only a select few of us have been given access to this incredible program. For example, John Kordosh, of the super-fine Framed! Blog, is not allowed to use it, because "it will just confuse him." The software does not recognize Gummo or Wall Girl.

If you don't see your favorite album from 1971 on this list, it will likely show up on Part Two.

25) Jukin' Bone - Whiskey Woman: Jukin' Bone are still remembered as one of the great bands of the early 1970s. The Whiskey Woman album is one for the ages. There isn't a hard rock band that followed that didn't inherit the fine boogie provisions of Jukin' Bone. When the singer asks, "Do you feel alright?" at the end of the title track it's a moment so devastating, so artistically pure that it never needed an answer. (No

On Sunday, May 8, the blues and rock world will celebrate the 100^th Birthday of Mississippi Delta blues singer Robert Johnson. While Johnson died in general obscurity, having one modest hit 78 to his name, his legend grew in subsequent decades, in part because of English blues enthusiasts, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, and because Columbia Records smartly released an album in 1961 called The King Of the Delta Blues Singers. Charley Patton, Skip James and Son House would surely demand the crown.

But history is written by big multi-national corporations and our ears tell us that if Johnson wasn't the actual king, he had the musicality worth the title.

Johnson cut 29 official songs, with a few alternate takes before he was poisoned by a jealous husband. Sessions in a San Antonio hotel and a Dallas warehouse are all that exist. Even still, getting Johnson down to a top ten is plenty tough and there's no valid reason to leave off "Sweet Home Chicago," "I