KEY TO THE HIGHWAY / The Rolling Stones

[aliwhitwell]

Wonderful. Thanks for posting this gem!

[amhedadudu47]

BLACK PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE WHITE, SHIT IM TIRED OF THEM STEALING EVERYTHING.... EVERYTHING THEY LEARNED WAS FROM THE WHITE MAN BY WATCHING HIM, THINK ABOUT IT.

[CormanBARBARIAN]

@amhedadudu47 we're too high to care what you think bubz <3

[MsBeautyqueen99]

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE BLACK. SHIT IM TIRED OF THEM STEALING EVERYTHING. MORE ON AND GET A LIFE..SHEESH..A BLACK MAN WROTE THIS SONG AND HERE THE COME WITH THEY UNTALENTED AZZ..

[Cartel535]

@MsBeautyqueen99 Son, this is music. Is no competetition, just sit down and listen.

[GoliamNos]

aaaah, really from a session from 1964? WOW, good soundquality

[2743v3r]

@GoliamNos

Recorded November 8, 1963 at Chess Studos, Chicago, USA, never released.

Lead Vocals: Mick Jagger Electric Guitar: Keith Richards Harp: Brian Jones Drums: Charlie Watts Bass: Bill Wyman

[Deltics1]

@2743v3r 1964 not 1963

[GoliamNos]

he, what is the recording date of this song?? i have never hear it before from the stones...

[elpescador56]

Holy crap, what a bunch of pseudo intellectual blather!! It's MUSIC for god's sake! A genre of music with black origins that has grown and evolved over the years. It's major themes have always been about hot women, unfaithful lovers, financial hard times or just letting the good times roll!. universal experiences we all share. Stop over analyzing , and just listen, connect and enjoy. Bunch of buzzkills

[ttesoro]

Come on, blues today is not about working on cotton fields, the same way as rocknroll is NOT rebel music (if it ever was...) I have not been part of human rights movement in USA - I´m European. That doesnt mean that I woudnt have hundreds of cd´s by BLACK and WHITE, and I don´t c why that should matter. I love blues, jazz., rock, even country, latin, what ever. All music we hear today is based on something that was done earlier.

[howlingsandy]

To clarify, once: the focus on long riffs from Yardbirds on vs tight messages interwoven w/balanced solos is1 indiction why it "went white" Not that whites at times haven't suffered in some ways, like any, but this music is of black diaspora/slavery & deep longtime oppression. Most middle class/better-off lower class whites could relate to some of it, which touches the universal spirit, but weren't able to/can't connect to all (SOME could, but not many) Most "blues" now is riffy licks SGS

[ttesoro]

Could you please stop talking about black/white -stuff! Stones at their best made better versions about black music originals. For example Can I get a Witness, or Better Move On, and several Chuck Berrry songs. And don´t u dare call me racist! Some black people seem to think for example Elvis "stole" their music, and that´s pure crap. Nobody owns the notes, or style of music. Peace, bros and sis!

[howlingsandy]

@ttesoro "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties & juke joints and nobody paid it no mind... I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw." Sun Records' Sam Phillips sought a white guy "who can sing Negro music"

[ttesoro]

@howlingsandy I have seen videos where Muddy, Chuck and Bo play with "white boys" like Stones. Music has no color, even if its called blues.  Most of the players of the blues(rock)2day are white. Why? Because young black guys don´t respect their musical history, which is sad. Even "soul" is dead, they call the crap they make r&b which is wrong.

[howlingsandy]

@ttesoro in case you don't get it (yet) that quote is from Elvis. The inspiration to the Stones was Howlin' Wolf. See the Shindig show here where they refused to go on unless Wolf could play on it too. Elvis covered black music, and opened doors to black rockers by having covered a black father of Rock, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup. It's not the owning of notes or not that makes you racist, it's the denial of history, of the actual music first coming (mainly) from black diaspora, i.e. slavery,

[howlingsandy]

@ttesoro It relates to origins of the form -> Black diaspora, a bit of Celtic music (slave owner approved material) Combined. Beyond, elements of multiculturalism not musical per se. Did you work for the National Civil Rights Act training agency? Play with Wolf, Arthur Crudup, Brownie & Sonny & so many more? Throw down against KKK or apartheiders in Africa? Didn't see you there when I was. Your opinion about "better" is an opinion. Most from Yardbirds on made bluesy riffed covers, NOT blues.

[TheSatanas666]

let dat song to muddy, big bill o little walter

[helenawf]

Is it the first(1964) or the second (1985) record?

[gnrfan098]

I prefer Derek and the dominos take on this

[robin14669]

A 33-second instrumental snippet of "Key to the Highway" appeared at the end of the Stones' album Dirty Work, as a tribute to Stu. If anybody can mix that part into this song: it's from the same session.

[drjimbuz77]

Look for Key to the highway by LITTLE WALTER,amazing

[The12Child]

This is why I like this Version of the song to the one of Clapton. It's simple.

[QuixoteScura]

The genious of Keef,

the tastfulness of Charlie,

and yes that is Brain on harp.

Mick was OK.

[howlingsandy]

CHECK OUT MIKE WILHELM'S VERSION OF THIS ON YT FOR A BLUES ROCKIN' VERSION BY.S.F. ROCK SCENE LEGENDS

[1blastman]

@howlingsandy Will do; also check out Sonny Landreth's version on one ot the Medicine Ball CD's Dedicated to Dr. Tommy Comeaux. This version works for me, as do many others.

[nelson85b]

as much as you got to love the stones they're not a patch on big bill.

[pinchold]

1963? The golden age of Stones. The best r&b group of the time.

[TheSatanas666]

@pinchold the best WHITE r&b group of the time... any black one would rip them off

[VoxMax1200]

This is from time when Stones was really Rolling.

[Parlemort]

@ transcarib: Well, thank you, doctor, for your pointless comment. Good day.

[goldshell]

Brian on Harp! Mick always played it straight. Brian taught Mick to play.. Brian's harp playing wailed and he bent the notes but Mick just played it straight. "Little By Little" is Mick on Harp.

[graric]

@goldshell Listening to the song I'd say it's actually Mick on harp: (just by the way its only in the vocal breaks and I'm certain there are multiple guitars) And Mick didn't play straight harp: he played cross harp like you do with the blues (if you want straight harp listen to most of Dylan's harp work.) But yes I agree Brian was easily the superior Harpist (Mick's harp in stuff like Little by Little is very much that of a beginner!)

[transcarib]

Brian was emotionally immature and psychologically on thin ice. He compensated for his insecurities by beating his women and abusing alcohol and drugs (he checked himself into hospital twice). As Keith said in an old interview, some persons you just know are not going to make it to 70. Brian was one. That said, I believe his death was due to involuntary manslaughter, not by too many drugs (death by misadventure as per the coroner's report).

[MrsJaneBennett]

Micks voice is a real present of god!

[hdutracfilho]

There`s no other band, except the Beatles, that can hypnotize you with their sound .Jagger`s voice is like the wine..the older the better. Maybe they`ll stop next year but never in my mind.

[frankyforearmsnycnh]

amazing. they're what, like 17 or 18 years old during these recordings? and they already sound like seasoned session players. today's teens can barely print their name.

[pabluchostone]

@frankyforearmsnycnh in this session had all 20.21 years!

[iardberds]

I think the harp is Brian. In those days he played most if not all the harp. I think it sounds too good to be Mick at that time. Great song.

[TheTeemaster]

no, who played harp was determined by the song: do we need two guitars?

yeah? then let it be done by Mick during the vocal breaks and at the end and the beginning (Little Red Rooster) . No? Then let it be done by Brian (Look What You've done). Brian was much mor a Virtuoso then Mick, he played by creating sounds with his hands - how near or far both hands closed in the harp on the mouth - but Mick played quite a lot, too. Good Times, Bad Times was played by even by both.

[Exilemainstreet]

Never heard this one before.

[MrPHBarr1919]

@Exilemainstreet Same here

[TheTeemaster]

Quiert a ot of early stones fans died meanwhile without knowing that great lost chess-session song does really exist. the tape was stolen, so the legend says, on backseat of andrew oldhams car. i would lost every bet myself on its existence. thak you so much for that ultra rare wonderful peace. i guess, it's without Brian, isn't it? There's just one guitar, and the harp must be Jagger.

[rmgj]

@TheTeemaster If I may, Brian taught how to play the mouth harp to Mick, if you check the video on "I Just Wanna Make Love to You" or "Not Fade Away" if memory serves me right, you'll see Brian giving it a go, while Keith plays rythm, that was the monstruous rip-off to Brian, they kicked him off because he lost control of his habits, (The prime mover: Keith), later Keith would do the same, bastard was supported trough.

[TheTeemaster]

@TheTeemaster well, Mick played harp sooner than Brian, but Brian learned it by

teaching himself in Edith Grove, and one day he played better then Mick ever.

Brian, during some time in U.S., was often absent during the late 1964 sessions; he was even in hospital and missed some gigs. I think, it is Mick on the harp; because it's not so good as, for instance, Brian's "Look what You`ve done". What a sad thing, with Brian, but he must have been an unbearable person, too.

[graric]

@TheTeemaster Mick played Harp sooner than Brian??? Brian had been playing harp for at least a couple of years prior to meeting Jagger and Richards (he busked around Europe with a guitar and some harps) Jagger only started playing harp during the early days of the Stones (as some songs required two guitars and they also wanted some harp in them) when Brian taught him (if you listen to the early Stones LPs you can figure out who plays harp on what just by the quality of the playing...

[reapus]

If you think he's singing out of tune, you must be either tone deaf, or just plain deaf mate. Good version.

[checker764]

@reapus Well, it's not like he's singing completely in the wrong key, but he's obviously going for a few notes here and there that he's not quite hitting, and coming up more than a little flat. I like the Stones, and this is definitely interesting to hear, but I can also understand why this sat on the shelf for so many years.

[The791912]

Not bad; it is a pity that he sings out of tune, though...

[MemphisBlueAgain]

@The791912 Real blues is outta tune. Seriously can't stand that pub blues shit played nowadays. Anyway Brian was the only "pro" at that stage in their career

[imaStonesGirl1]

Awesome thanks for the upload

[MrPHBarr1919]

This is from time when Stones was really Rolling.

[platter1000]

excellent

[notholding2]

This track comes from Chess Studios in Chicago and dates from a 1964 session.

[BLUESMANRONCHICAGO]

@notholding2 VERY GOOD COVER OF AN OLD BIG BILL BROONZY TUNE, WHO WAS ONE OF THE EARLY PIONEEERS OF THE BLUES. LOVED THIS PERIOD OF THE STONES, WHO COVERED ANOTHER OF THEIR FAVORITE LEGENDS, HOWLIN WOLF WHEN THEY RECORDED LITTLE RED ROOSTER

[lacatrise]

cool

[californiaclaybo]

I am someone who has closely followed and studied the stones for 29 years. This is new to me and I absolutely love it. Sooo cool, thanks! where is it from??