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Steve Jordan

Steve Jordan is an American drummer and producer, born in New York in 1957. He played in the Saturday Night Live band and in David Letterman’s Late Night band, and has been Keith Richards’s drummer, co-writer and co-producer in the X-Pensive Winos since Talk Is Cheap (1988). He took over the drums for the Rolling Stones in 2021, first standing in for Charlie Watts on that year’s US tour, and plays with them as a hired musician.

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Steve Jordan playing drums with the John Mayer Trio in 2006
Photo: Noelle Smith, CC BY 2.0, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons

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Musician: drums on twelve songs
Review Rock, Blues rock
The Rolling Stones Foreign Tongues

Sold as a month of sessions in London, the Stones' 25th album is really two periods in one, with Charlie Watts's last session and an hour of Andrew Watt's polish.

Elmo Phelge · 23 Oct 2026