Let It Bleed

Elizabeth Cook covering The Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed".

Beast of Burden

Buckwheat Zydeco covering the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden".

Paint It Black

The #1 song from 50 years ago, The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black".

Wild Horses

Wine, Women & Song—Matraca Berg, Suzy Bogguss & Gretchen Peters—covering the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses".

Hey You

The Number 1 single 50 years ago, The Rolling Stones performing "Get Off Of My Cloud".

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

No. 1 single 50 years ago, a youthful Rolling Stone performing "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

Wild Horses

A post for Leon Russell's 73rd birthday—"Wild Horses".

Lisa Fischer

Number five from Twenty Feet from Stardom—Lisa Fischer.

Fischer has been the backup singer for the Rolling Stones' concert performances for over twenty years now.  Here she is performing the song Merry Clayton originally recorded, "Gimme Shelter".



"The Look of Love" performed with Chris Botti.



A recent performance of "I Love You Porgy".

Merry Clayton

Number three from Twenty Feet from Stardom—Merry Clayton.

An interview with Clayton where she tells the best story from the film, how she was called out in the middle of the night, pregnant and in curlers, to record what became one of the Rolling Stone's most iconic songs, "Gimme Shelter".



The original "Gimme Shelter" recording with Clayton's vocals.



Clayton performing at a recent show to promote the new movie, the Dylan song "The Times They Are A-Changin'"

Jerry Ragovoy

The songwriter Jerry Ragovoy passed away a couple days ago. In tribute, here are performances of a couple songs he wrote.

"Time Is On My Side" - Irma Thomas recorded this song in the early 1960's. You can see her performing the song in this post. The Rolling Stones saw her perform the song, copied her interpretation of the song, and it became one of their early hits.



"Piece of My Heart" performed by Janis Joplin



"Get It While You Can" - This song was also recorded by Janis Joplin, but it was recorded first by this man, Howard Tate.

RIP Solomon Burke

A video tribute to Solomon Burke who died yesterday at 70 in an Amsterdam airport. While never attaining the commercial success that he deserved, over the last decade he has released several critically acclaimed albums, including Don't Give Up on Me in 2002 which won a grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Through out the many years of his career his voice remained smooth and powerful. Here are some examples.

"If You Need Me"



"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"



Buddy Miller and Patty Griffin accompany Burke on "Up to the Mountain" - The words from Martin Luther King's final speech that Griffin set to music.



In this fun video Burke joins the Rolling Stones on stage in a performance of "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"




If you like this, try these previous posts:

Martin Luther King Day - Jnauary 18, 2010

The Blind Boys of Alabama - January 20, 2010

Percy Sledge - August 27, 2010