Down the Road Apiece

Composer: Tony Raye      Original performers: Amos Milburn (1946), Chuck Berry (1960)
Recording date: June 1964        Recording location: Chess Studios, Chicago, USA
Producer: Andrew Oldham        Engineer: Ron Malo
Performed onstage: 1962-65, 1981, 1986

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Bass: Bill Wyman
Rhythm electric guitar: Brian Jones
Lead electric guitar: Keith Richards
Vocal: Mick Jagger
Piano: Ian Stewart
 

Now if you want to hear some boogie like I'm going to play
It's just an old piano and a knockout bass
The drummer man's a cat they call Charlie McCoy
You all remember that rubber legged boy?

Mama cooking chicken fried in bacon grease
Come on along, boys, it's just down the road apiece

Well there's a place you really get your kicks
It's open every night about 12 to 6
Now if you want to hear some boogie, you can get your fill
And shove and sting it like a old steam grill 

Come on along, you can lose your lead
Down the road, down the road, down the road apiece

Well there's a place you really get your kicks
It's open every night about 12 to 6
Now if you want to hear some boogie, you can get your fill
And shove and sting it like a old steam grill 

Come on along, you can lose your lead
Down the road, down the road, down the road apiece

     

TrackTalk

Actually Chuck Berry walked in (the studio) while we were recording Down the Road Apiece, and he said, Wow, you guys are really getting it on!

- Bill Wyman



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