Wild Horses (The Rolling Stones song)

Wild Horses is a song by the Rolling Stones, which was released in 1971 on their album Sticky Fingers. Written have Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. The song reached number 334 in the list of Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Times from the year 2004. First appeared Wild Horses in 1970 on the album Burrito Deluxe The Flying Burrito Brothers.

Background

The original version was recorded between the 2nd and December 4, 1969 during a three day session at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama. On the basis of litigation with former label of the group, the piece was not published until a year later. The rights to be held by the Rolling Stones and Allen Klein.

In the recording of the song include Jim Dickinson on piano, listening to Keith Richards on the electric guitar and 12-string acoustic guitar and Mick Taylor on acoustic guitar. Taylor used this so-called Nashville tuning, in which the E, A, D and G strings are tuned an octave higher.

The song was released as the second single from the album, reaching number 28 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. Although the Rolling Stones often played it at concerts, so far only a live version was released on the album Stripped of 1995.

The Emergence Mick Jagger said in the liner notes to the compilation album Jump Back:

"Everyone always says this thing written about Marianne but I do not think it what; did what 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 do not think that it was so; everything was already over. But I was definitely very emotional in this piece in it. "

Keith Richards led in 1993 to from:

"If there is one 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 what about the usual thing of not wanting to be on the road, being a million miles from where you want to be. "

"If there is a classic way, like Mick and I work together, this is it. I had the riff and the verses of the chorus, Mick went to the verses. Just as with Satisfaction. Wild Horses acted as usual about wanting to not be traveling on the road, want to get a million miles away from where you want to be. "

Reception

Richie Unterberger wrote in Allmusic about the piece:

"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 vocals Mick Jagger ... But did within minority of heartfelt, romantic originals, Wild Horses is Certainly one of the Stones ' best, most sincere efforts. "

"Wild Horses is one of the most beautiful ballads of the Rolling Stones and one of the most interesting, influenced by country rock songs that have ever been made ​​by a great rock band ... It's a rock song, and more importantly, a Rolling Stones song with typical lewd, stretched vocals of Mick Jagger ... But within that minority of heartfelt, romantic originals Wild Horses is certainly one of the best, most honest services of Stones. "

Cover versions

The song has been covered by many musicians, including The Black Crowes, Debbie Harry, Elvis Costello, Neil Young, Guns N 'Roses, Dave Matthews and Alicia Keys. Even before the release of Sticky Fingers took the The Flying Burrito Brothers the song for her album Burrito Deluxe on, which was released in April 1970, a year before the release of Sticky Fingers.