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KEITH RICHARDS – ” Live at The Apollo ” Tribute to Merry Clayton

Posted: December 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Keith Richards took time out from promoting his new Crosseyed Heart LP to help support a good cause last night, appearing onstage at the Apollo Theater to play at this year’s A Great Night in Harlem benefit concert and pay tribute to vocalist Merry Clayton with a performance of the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter.”

Richards’ appearance, which starts with the guitarist strolling out onstage after a standing ovation for Clayton, who recently revealed she underwent a double amputation after sustaining serious injuries in a car accident in 2014. “Now you know how many friends you got, honey,” said Richards, telling the audience he wanted to “kick it off with the one we worked together on.”

Clayton’s vocals on “Gimme Shelter” — which she recorded after being awoken in the middle of the night and then added a crucial component to the song, and also remains a highlight of a distinguished career that she’s vowed to continue in spite of her injury. Although not present at the event, Clayton appeared on video to accept the first annual Clark and Gwen Terry Courage Award from the Jazz Foundation of America.

Richards, who went on to play the Rolling Stones song “Happy”  was just one member of a bill assembled to also honor jazz pioneer Sonny Rollins, who received a lifetime achievement award at the show, and was on hand to witness performances from Steely Dan‘s Donald Fagen and a host of jazz greats who paid tribute to Rollins’ classic discography while helping raise funds for medical care and other forms of assistance going to jazz and blues musicians in need. Richards closed out the evening with a tribute to Clayton,  A standing ovation for Clayton preceded Richards’ appearance. “Now you know how many friends you got, honey,” the guitarist said as he took the stage. Backing Richards was his trusty longtime band, the X-Pensive Winos, featuring guitarist Waddy Wachtel, keyboardist Ivan Neville, bassist Willie Weeks and drummer Steve Jordan (also the night’s musical director), along with vocalists Sarah Dash (of LaBelle), and longtime Stones backup singers Lisa Fischer and Bernard Fowler.

Keith Richard has been a tear lately, turning up all over the place in support of his new solo album, “Crosseyed Heart“.

ROLLING STONES – ” Wild Horses ” Acoustic Version

Posted: April 3, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Ahead of the highly anticipated reissue of  the 1971′s album  “Sticky Fingers”, The Rolling Stones have released a previously unheard acoustic version of  the song “Wild Horses.” 

The song is one of the most beloved in the Rolling Stones’ canon, and an indispensable document of classic rock and roll. The new remaster and arrangement puts it in a whole new context: Now it’s even more tender, emotionally bare and Mick’s vocals are given a new clarity and intimacy.

More poignantly, the song takes on an even more haunted feeling, given that it comes in the wake of the deaths of both Jagger’s girlfriend L’Wren Scott and the band’s longtime saxophonist Bobby Keys.

“For three days in December 1969, the Rolling Stones stopped into Muscle Shoals studios in Alabama and managed to lay down three songs, one of which was ‘Wild Horses,’” writes Jim Beviglia in our Behind The Song feature. “The composition of this plaintive ballad was begun by Keith Richards, whose first child was born in August 1969, causing Keith regret about going out on the road and leaving the boy behind.”

“It was one of those magical moments when things come together,” Richards wrote in his 2010 autobiography Life about the song’s genesis. “It’s like ‘Satisfaction.’ You just dream it, and suddenly it’s all in your hands. Once you’ve got the vision in your mind of wild horses, I mean, what’s the next phrase you’re going to use? It’s got to be couldn’t drag me away.” The album is out May 26th.

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