LIVE WITH ME
“Live with Me” is a song by the Rolling Stones from their album Let It Bleed, released in November 1969. It was the first song recorded with the band’s new guitarist Mick Taylor, who joined the band in June 1969. The song also marks the first time the Stones recorded with tenor saxophonist Bobby Keys (who played on many Stones records thereafter), and the only time Leon Russell would play with the Stones. Russell and Nicky Hopkins contributed piano to the piece. Written by Mick Jagger and Richards, “Live with Me” was recorded on 24 May 1969. Along with “Country Honk”, this was one of the two songs on Let it Bleed that guitarist Mick Taylor played on. He and Keith Richards created an original 2-lead guitar sound. (More from Wikipedia)
The concert was made not long after the release of one of my favorite Rolling Stones albums, Beggars Banquet, and includes two songs from that album, “Sympathy for the Devil” and “Street Fighting Man”, plus several more from their most recent album at that time, Let it Bleed: “Gimme Shelter”, “Love In Vain”, “Midnight Rambler”, “Live with Me”, and “Honky Tonk Women” – a country version of this song was included on Let it Bleed under the name of “Country Honk”, while “Honky Tonk Women” itself was released five months earlier as a single only. The Greatest Group on Earth was the only concert album that I had of the Stones for several years (in fact, I did not own very many albums back then, period) – just one live album by the Rolling Stones had been officially released previously, Got Live If You Want It! (1966) – so I played this record a lot.
(September 2017)
