Composers:
Mick Jagger &
Keith Richards
Recording
date: June-July
1970, October 1970 & December 1971-March 1972
Recording
locations: Olympic
Sound
Studios, London,
England; Rolling Stones Mobile Unit, Mick Jagger's
home, Newbury, England
& Sunset Sound
Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producer:
Jimmy Miller
Chief engineers: Glyn
Johns, Andy
Johns &
Joe Zagarino
Performed onstage:
1972-73,
1994-95,
1999, 2002-03, 2005-07, 2014, 2016-19, 2022, 2024
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitars: Keith Richards & Mick
Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards,
Mick Taylor & others
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ian Stewart
Saxophone: Bobby Keys
Handclaps: ---
TrackTalk
I wanted to release Sweet Virginia as kind of an easy listening single.
I can't
remember if that was the actual first (Exile track we recorded in Nellcote). That
would be beyond even my phenomenal memory. But I recall that
Mick had Sweet Virginia
prepared and ready to go. I have a feeling that we'd been
playing around with that one on the last sessions. Maybe on Sticky Fingers, or whatever.
So it was a work in progress.
I know it's
rumoured that (Gram
Parsons) sang backing vocals on Sweet Virginia but
that's me singing, not him.