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Certain Songs #2045: The Rolling Stones – “Salt of The Earth”

February 27, 2021 by Jim Connelly

Album: Beggars Banquet
Year: 1968

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The final song on Beggars Banquet was the most successful attempt yet for the Rolling Stones to end one of their records with a big production, as “Salt of The Earth” starts quietly and ends up as a gospel-fueled rave-up, kinda of a warm-up for their next album closer.

It starts off, though with that instantly identifiable acoustic guitar strum by Keith Richards, who gets a fantasticly haunting and dark sound from it, and then like he’s the only one who happened to be in the studio, he sings the first verse, another milestone in Stones history.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Beggars Banquet, Rolling Stones, Salt of the Earth

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