Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording
date:
July 1971 & October
1971-March 1972
Recording locations: Rolling
Stones Mobile Unit, Keith Richards' home, Villefranche-sur-mer, France &
Sunset Sound Studios,
Los Angeles, USA
Producer: Jimmy
Miller Chief
engineers: Glyn
Johns, Andy Johns & Joe
Zagarino
Performed onstage: 1969,
1972, 2002-03, 2006, 2014
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Acoustic guitar: Keith
Richards
Electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Harmony vocal: Keith
Richards
Backing vocals: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Saxophone: Bobby
Keys
Trumpet: Jim
Price
Maracas: Jimmy
Miller
Handclaps: ---
TrackTalk
Mick made a mistake with the credits on two of the cuts. He listed Mick Taylor or somebody as playing bass on Loving Cup and one other track. It was really me.
Loving Cup...
offers a few possibilities
where you can turn some (bass) runs around or do some little slide
things...
On the Forty
Licks tour, when we were
preparing the set list for a show in Yokohama, Chuck Leavell suggested
we play Loving Cup, the ballad from Exile On Main Street.
I didn't want to play the tune and I said, Chuck, this is going to
die
a death in Yokohama. I can't even remember the bloody song, and no one
likes it. I've done it loads of times in America, it doesn't go down
that
well, it's a very difficult song to sing, and I'm fed up with it!
Chuck
went, Stick in the mud! so I gave in and put it in the
set-list.
Lo and behold, we went out, started the song and they all began
applauding...
Which just proves how, over time, some of these songs acquire a certain
existence, or value, that they never had when they first came out.
People
will say, What a wonderful song that was, when it was virtually
ignored at the time it was released.