Parachute Woman

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: March & July 1968
Recording locations: Olympic Sound Studios, London, England & Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Jimmy Miller        Chief engineers: Eddie Kramer & Glyn Johns
Performed onstage: 1968, 2002

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitars: Keith Richards
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Harmonicas: Brian Jones & Mick Jagger (outro)

 

Parachute woman, land on me tonight
Parachute woman, land on me tonight
I'll break big in New Orleans and I'll overspill in Caroline

Parachute woman, join me for a ride
Parachute woman, join me for a ride
I'll make my bread in Dallas and get hot again in half the time

Baby

Parachute woman, will you blow me out?
Parachute woman, will you blow me out?
Well my heavy throbber's itching just to lay a solid rhythm down

Hear
 
 
 
TrackTalk

Parachute Woman
is a cassette track (i.e. recorded on a cassette).
- Keith Richards, 1971


The closest I came (to being able to duplicate Scotty Moore's playing) was tracks like Parachute Woman, where I fooled around with echoes - those early Elvis recordings got me interested in the possibility of the studio.
- Keith Richards, 2021


Parachute Woman... came so easily. I thought it was going to be difficult because I had that concept of that sound and wasn't sure it would work, but Mick jumped on the idea just like that, and it took little time to record.
- Keith Richards, Life (2010)




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