Evening
Gown
Composer: Mick
Jagger
Recording date: January-September
1992
Recording locations: S.I.R.
Studios & Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers:
Rick Rubin & Mick Jagger Chief
engineer: David Bianco
Probable line-up:
Drums: Jim
Keltner
Bass: John Pierce
Acoustic guitars:
Jimmy Rip & Mick Jagger
Pedal steel guitar:
Jaydee Maness
Vocals: Mick
Jagger
Piano: Benmont
Tench
Organ: Benmont
Tench
People say that I'm high class
But I'm low down all the while
People think that I'm crazy
When I flash that California smile
Mmm, but I can still paint the town
All the colours of your evening gown
While I'm waiting for your blonde hair
To turn grey
People say I'm a drinker
But I'm sober half the time
People say I'm a loser
But I get lucky on the side
Yeah but I can still paint the town
All the colours of your evening gown
While I'm waiting for your blonde hair
To turn grey
All my life I waited for
Someone who would show me where the bliss
is
All my life I waited for
Someone who would take me past the kissing, yes
People say I'm a loner
I like to get lost in the crowd
People call me a dresser
I wear my sports clothes way too loud
Yeah but I can still paint this town
I can shake it and turn it upside down
While I'm waiting for your blonde hair
While I'm waiting for your blonde hair
While I'm waiting for your blonde hair
To turn grey
TrackTalk
I didn't want to do too much of a pastiche on
that, I wanted it to be very straight country style. I think Rick Rubin
was slightly mystified by that. (laughs) I don't think he'd ever made a
country record... I had some experience making that kind of music, he didn't
have any.
-
Mick Jagger, December 1992
(The line about being sober half the time)
was sort of a joke. You know how journalists, particularly the more tabloid
press, always try to pin you down to being one particular kind of person.
People said I was wild, then I was sober, then I was this, then I was that.
-
Mick Jagger, December 1992
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