Love Overdue

Composer: Gregory Isaacs         Original performer: Gregory Isaacs (1974)
Recording date: September 2013
Recording location: Germano Studios, New York City, USA
Producers: Keith Richards & Steve Jordan
               Chief engineer: Dave O'Donnell
Mixers: Dave O'Donnell, Keith Richards & Steve Jordan

Line-up:

Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Keith Richards
Acoustic guitars: Keith Richards 
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Lead vocals: Keith Richards 
Background vocals: Steve Jordan, Ivan Neville & Bernard Fowler 
Piano: Steve Jordan
Keyboard: Keith Richards 
Hammond organ: Ivan Neville
Saxophone: Charles Dougherty
Trombone: Clifton Anderson
Trumpet: Kevin Batchelor
Percussion: Steve Jordan


Listen darling

Who's going to hold and squeeze me tight
Now that she's gone out of my life?
Who's going to make me feel the way she used to do
Now that my love is overdue?

Now that my love is overdue

Well I'm all alone in the wilderness
Searching to find some peace and rest
She wasn't the best girl  (but she brought happiness into my world)
And now I'm a prisoner of loneliness, yeah

That I'm a prisoner of loneliness  (now I'm a prisoner)
That's what I am  (now I'm a prisoner, now I'm a prisoner of loneliness)

Listen darling

Whose voice is going to say goodnight
Now that she's gone out of my sight?
Who's going to tell me lies and let me think they're true
And now that my love is overdue?

Now that my love is overdue
Now that my love is overdue

I just don't know what to do honey, baby
Stop making me blue

Stop it baby - yeah, Jamaican   (now I'm a prisoner) (stop making me blue)
Now I'm a prisoner - yes I'm a prisoner  (stop making me blue)
(...) you  (now I'm a prisoner)  (stop making me blue)
Stop it baby  (now I'm a prisoner)  (stop making me blue)
Stop it, stop it  (now I'm a prisoner)  (stop making me blue)
Stop it baby, baby - baby, baby - stop making me blue  (now I'm a prisoner) 
(Now I'm a prisoner)


TrackTalk

It's one of the many great songs (Gregory Isaacs) wrote that I've always wanted to do. So I indulged myself. And Steve Jordan can really play reggae, with insight from listening to great drummers like Sly Dunbar and Horsemouth. It's just a natural thing with him. Love Overdue is a song I've had a soft spot for forever. I miss Gregory dearly.

- Keith Richards, September 2015




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