Let
It Loose
Composers:
Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
July & 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
Never performed onstage
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Electric guitar: Keith
Richards
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Tamiya Lynn,
Dr.
John, Clydie King, Venetta
Fields, Sherlie Matthews & Joe Green
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Mellotron: Nicky
Hopkins
Saxophone: Bobby
Keys
Trumpet: Jim
Price
Who's that woman on your arm
All dressed up to do you harm, yeah?
And I'm hip to what she'll do
Give her just about a month or two
Bit off more than I can chew
And I knew, yeah I knew what it was leading
to
Some things, well, I can't refuse
One of them, one of them the bedroom blues
She delivers right on time
I can't resist a corny line (can't resist it, can't resist it)
But take the shine right off you shoes - yeah,
right off your shoes
Carrying, carrying the bedroom blues
Oh yeah, yeah
In the bar you're getting drunk, oh
yeah, yeah
I ain't in love, I ain't in luck, oh no, no,
no
Hide the switch and shut the light - won't
you shut it?
Yeah, let it all come down tonight (let it loose, let it
all come down)
Let it
all come down
Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger
Your face I'll never see no more (let it loose)
Oh no, no, no (let it come down)
No, let it all come down tonight - won't you
let it? (let it loose, let it all come down)
Yeah, keep your tears hid out of sight (let it loose, let it all come down)
Yeah, let it loose (let it all come down)
Yeah, let it loose (let it all come down)
Ow, let it loose (let it all come down)
Let it loose, let it all come down
Let it loose (let it all come down)
Let it loose (let it loose, let it all come down)
Yeah (let it loose, let it all come down...)
TrackTalk
What (Mick) wanted was this funk feeling, this
real honest church feel. He had an appreciation for black music, and he
said it openly, so that was out of the way. We knew he had this affinity
for the blues and where it came from. Wilson Pickett came clearly out of
a church, out of a black experience. Mick came out of a respect for black
experience, or black music. The greatness comes out of the spirit.
- Tamiya Lynn
(Who's that woman on your arm/All dressed up to do you harm?)
I think Keith wrote that, actually. That's a very weird, difficult
song. I had a whole other set of lyrics to it, but they got lost by the
wayside. I don't think that song has any semblance of meaning. It's one
of those rambling songs. I didn't really understand what it was about,
after the event.
- Mick Jagger, 2009
(Dr.
John) just walked in. Mac Rebennack's like that. If there's music going
on, in one way or another, he's gonna get his ass in there. I love the
guy.
- Keith Richards, 2010
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