Wild Horses (song)
Wild Horses (English; "Wild horses") is a song by the band Rolling Stones , which was released in 1971 on their album Sticky Fingers . It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards . The song reached number 334 in the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Times from 2004. For the first time appeared Wild Horses in 1970 on the album Burrito Deluxe the Flying Burrito Brothers .
background
The original version was recorded between December 2 and 4, 1969 during a three-day session at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama . Due to legal disputes with the group's former label, the piece wasn't released until a year later. The rights to it are held by the Rolling Stones and ABKCO, the company of the late manager Allen Klein .
The recording of the song includes Jim Dickinson on piano , Keith Richards on electric guitar - in one of his rather rare solos - and Mick Taylor on six-string acoustic guitar . Taylor used what is known as Nashville tuning, in which the E, A, D and G strings are tuned an octave higher. The twelve-string acoustic guitar is played by Keith Richards.
The song was released as the second single from the album in the USA and reached number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Although the Rolling Stones often played him at concerts, so far only one live version has been released on the 1995 album Stripped .
In the liner notes for the compilation album Jump Back , Mick Jagger explained the genesis of the story :
“Everyone always says this was written about Marianne but I don't think it was; that was all well over by then. But I was definitely very inside this piece emotionally. "
“Everyone always says that this was written about Marianne , but I don't think it was; it was all over by then. But I was definitely very emotional in this piece. "
Keith Richards stated in 1993:
“If there is a classic way of Mick and me working together this is it. I had the riff and chorus line, Mick got stuck into the verses. Just like satisfaction. Wild Horses was about the usual thing of not wanting to be on the road, being a million miles from where you want to be. "
“If there's one classic way Mick and I work together, it's this one. I had the riff and the verses of the chorus , Mick started the verses. Just like with Satisfaction . Wild Horses, as usual, was about not wanting to be on the road a million miles from where you want to be. "
reception
Richie Unterberger wrote about the piece on Allmusic :
Wild Horses is one of the Rolling Stones' most beautiful ballads, and one of the most worthwhile country-influenced rock songs ever done by a major rock band… It's a rock song, and more important, a Rolling Stones song, with typically salacious, drawling Mick Jagger vocals… But within that minority of heartfelt, romantic originals, Wild Horses is certainly one of the Stones' best, most sincere efforts.
" Wild Horses is one of the Rolling Stones' finest ballads, and one of the most interesting country- influenced rock songs ever made by a major rock band ... It's a rock song, and more importantly, a Rolling Stones song with typically suggestive." , drawn out vocals by Mick Jagger… But within this minority of heartfelt, romantic originals, Wild Horses is certainly one of the best, most honest achievements of the Stones. "
When asked which Rolling Stones songs he would have liked to have written himself, Bob Dylan named Angie, a fan of the blues and wild horses.
Cover versions
The piece has been covered by many musicians including The Black Crowes , Elvis Costello , Guns n 'Roses , Debbie Harry , Alicia Keys , Dave Matthews , The Sundays and Neil Young . Even before it was released on Sticky Fingers , the Flying Burrito Brothers recorded the song for their album Burrito Deluxe , which was released in April 1970, a year before Sticky Fingers was released.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers , companion book for the Super Deluxe Edition 2015; Page 98: "Mick Taylor remembers' playing a little red Guild acoustic guitar strung in high Nashville tuning while Keith played the same 12-string he'd used on" You Gotta Move ". [...] It's Keith playing the solo in the middle section also. '”
- ↑ Wild Horses. In: timeisonourside.com. Retrieved February 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Wild Horses. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved February 13, 2013 (review).
- ↑ Bob Dylan: "I think of the end of humanity" - Rare interview in the New York Times about Corona, music, death and humanity on kurier.at