Saturday 12 April 2008

Merry Clayton, "Gimme Shelter"

I love the orginal but here is another take on it...Viva la Rolling Stones!

Merry was the woman dueting with Mick on the Rolling Stones' original 1969 recording of "Gimme Shelter". Who better to interpret it the following year than Merry herself? She's accompanied on keys by her friend, the immeasurably important Billy Preston, who was as much the Sixth Stone as the Fifth Beatle in these years. The galloping roar of guitar may be David T. Walker, although the album credits don't clarify.
She was born on Christmas Day, and what a gift!

"War, children, is just a shot away/ See the pious sweeping my very streets today..."



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