Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Upright acoustic double bass: Bill Plummer
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Clydie King, Venetta Fields & Jesse Kirkland
Wurlitzer electric piano: Bobby Whitlock
Maracas: Jimmy Miller
Tambourine: Jimmy Miller
Handclaps: ---
 

TrackTalk

I Just Want to See His Face was a jam with Charlie and Mick Taylor. I don't know who's playing keyboards, maybe I am. I don't even know what album it was on. That was on Exile? I think it was just a trio originally, though other people might have been added eventually. It was a complete jam. I just made the song up there and then over the riff that Charlie and Mick were playing. That's how I remember it, anyway. I'd forgotten about that one.

(Bobby Whitlock) is playing the Wurlitzer on the track. Bobby was at the studio doing business with Jimmy Miller. The guys were all there but Keith, who was out scoring dope (as Bobby tells it). Mick asked about his dad being a preacher and asked Bobby to play something with a gospel feel. Bobby immediately started to play what you hear on the record. Mick began scatting. Bobby was unaware that they were recording. Keith showed up at the end of this jam, and Bobby left. When the record came out, Bobby was in the office with Jimmy Miller thrilled to see it and hear it when he found out they never credited him. He refused to ever listen to that record.

The reason they haven't performed it live is because as Chuck Leavell told Bobby, they can't get the vibe. That's because it's a Bobby thing. Bobby should have been credited as a co-writer as he came up with the music, Charlie and Mick Taylor were following his lead as was Mick.

I'm just playing the Doubting Thomas. I don't think it's a particularly rare idea.

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