“Sway” by The Rolling Stones

"Sway" is Sticky Fingers at its most bleary, a slow Jagger and Richards blues from 1971 that was the first thing the Rolling Stones recorded at Stargroves. Here's the twist: Keith Richards sings backup but plays no guitar at all, leaving Mick Jagger on electric rhythm, his first time doing that on a record, while Mick Taylor tears off a bottleneck slide solo in the bridge and a showstopping solo on the way out. Paul Buckmaster's strings, Nicky Hopkins' piano, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman fill it out under Jimmy Miller's production, and Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane and Billy Nicholls are believed to be among the backing voices.

In America it also showed up as the B-side of "Wild Horses". Taylor later said he deserved a writing credit on it, one of the grievances that led him out of the band.

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