The Rolling Stones: Wild Horses (Alternate Sticky Fingers Version with Gram Parsons)

From a well-circulated album collecting notable versions of songs from Sticky Fingers. The only information given is that the pedal steel is played by Gram Parsons. Collections like this are not known for their fact checking and I can't confirm that this is true; I find no reference anywhere else to Parsons ever playing pedal steel at all. Anyway, the whole thing is beautiful.

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[diatroptoff94]

that sounds like sneaky pete? im not sure, it could have been gram

[entarctica]

@diatroptoff94 Yeah, the consensus seems to be that it's either Sneaky Pete or else one of the Stones themselves, based on what I found online. I defer to the experts -- I certainly am not one. I called it "with Gram Parsons" anyway because that's how this version has been known for a few decades and it might help people find it.

[acadx]

Parsons was inspired to cover the song after hearing an advance tape of the Sticky Fingers album sent to pedal steel player Sneaky Pete Kleinow, who was scheduled to overdub a part on the song (Kleinow's part was not included on the released Rolling Stones version, though it is available on bootlegs). Mick Jagger consented to the cover version, so long as the Flying Burrito Brothers did not issue it as a single.

[acadx]

didn't gram leave the fbb in 1970, i don't think him and pete were playing together around this time, and i have also never heard a reference to gram playing the pedal steel, whoever it is this does sound nice