The Rolling Stones
"Moonlight Mile"
Album: Sticky Fingers
Released: 23 April 1971
Writers: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards
Label: Rolling Stones / Virgin
"Moonlight Mile" is a song from The Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers.
Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Moonlight Mile" is widely considered to be one of the Rolling Stones' most underappreciated ballads. Recording took place in October 1970 at Stargroves. The song was the product of an all-night session between Jagger and Mick Taylor. Taylor had taken a short guitar piece recorded by Richards (entitled "Japanese Thing") and reworked it for the session. Jagger performs the song's prominent acoustic guitar riff. Jagger felt it easier to extemporize with Taylor. Keith Richards was not at the recording session because he a bit "out of it" by the end of the Sticky Fingers recording session. Richard likes the song, though. It was Taylor's idea to add a string arrangement by Paul Buckmaster to the song. Piano is played by regular Rolling Stones trumpet player Jim Price.
"Moonlight Mile"
Album: Sticky Fingers
Released: 23 April 1971
Writers: Mick Jagger / Keith Richards
Label: Rolling Stones / Virgin
"Moonlight Mile" is a song from The Rolling Stones' 1971 album Sticky Fingers.
Credited to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, "Moonlight Mile" is widely considered to be one of the Rolling Stones' most underappreciated ballads. Recording took place in October 1970 at Stargroves. The song was the product of an all-night session between Jagger and Mick Taylor. Taylor had taken a short guitar piece recorded by Richards (entitled "Japanese Thing") and reworked it for the session. Jagger performs the song's prominent acoustic guitar riff. Jagger felt it easier to extemporize with Taylor. Keith Richards was not at the recording session because he a bit "out of it" by the end of the Sticky Fingers recording session. Richard likes the song, though. It was Taylor's idea to add a string arrangement by Paul Buckmaster to the song. Piano is played by regular Rolling Stones trumpet player Jim Price.
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| The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers LP, 1971 |
The Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile"
In his review of the song, Bill Janovitz says, "Though the song still referenced drugs and the road life of a pop-music celebrity, it really is a rare example of Jagger letting go of his public persona, offering a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the weariness that accompanies the pressures of keeping up appearances as a sex-drugs-and-rock & roll star." Rock critic Robert Christgau said the song, "re-created all the paradoxical distances inherent in erotic love with a power worthy of Yeats, yet could also be interpreted as a cocaine song. "This is a reference to the first stanza, which reads, "When the wind blows and the rain feels cold, With a head full of snow..." . It was meant to be about coming down from a cocaine high.
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| The Rolling Stones's Sticky Fingers (front cover) |
The Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile"
"...'Moonlight Mile' did mark a change of direction and thus a growth spurt for the Stones, stretching out a little more from the blues, country, and R&B-based roots music they had returned to after flirting -- with mixed results -- in the late '60s with psychedelia and other genres. For one thing, the Stones had been producing layered but streamlined electric guitar-based records at this time. In relation, "Moonlight Mile" was an epic production, not only with the sweeping strings, but other studio techniques like doubling Jagger's lead vocal -- a technique he rarely employed, seeming to prefer two-part harmony..." (Allmusic review by Bill Janovitz)
The Rolling Stones - "Moonlight Mile"
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| The Rolling Stones's Sticky Fingers Session(l - r: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts) |
The track was used extensively during the final episode of the first part of the HBO series The Sopranos' sixth season, "Kaisha", as well as giving its title to and being used in the 2002 motion picture Moonlight Mile. The song has been covered live by The Flaming Lips and on The 5th Dimension album, Earthbound. American hard rock supergroup Saints of the Underground covered this song for their only album Love the Sin, Hate the Sinner. Southern soul artist Lee Fields covered this song on his 2012 album Faithful Man.
Line-up / Musicians:
Mick Jagger - vocals, acoustic guitar
Mick Taylor - lead guitar
Bill Wyman - bass guitar
Charlie Watts - drums
With:
Jim Price - piano
Paul Buckmaster – string arrangement
Links / Reviews:
Wikipedia: Moonlight Mile (song)
Songfacts: Moonlight Mile by The Rolling Stones
Allmusic: Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones
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