ringo starr played slide guitar on my sweet lord.
ringo starr played slide guitar on my sweet lord.
who played slide guitar on my sweet lord?
ringo starr
in january 2001, harrison included a new version of the song as a bonus track on the remastered "all things must pass" album. "my sweet lord (2000)" featured harrison sharing vocals with sam brown, daughter of his friend joe brown, backed by mostly new instrumentation, including acoustic guitar by his son dhani and tambourine by ray cooper. the track opens with a "snippet" of sitar, to "emphasize its spiritual roots", leng suggests. on release, harrison explained that his motivation for remaking the song was partly to "play a better slide guitar solo"; he also cited the "spiritual response" that the song had traditionally received, together with his interest in reworking the tune to avoid the contentious musical notes, as further reasons. of the extended slide-guitar break on "my sweet lord (2000)", leng writes: "[harrison] had never made so clear a musical statement that his signature bottleneck sound was as much his tool for self-expression as his vocal cords." elliot huntley opines that harrison's vocal was more "gospel inflected" and perhaps even more sincere than on the original recording, "given his deteriorating health" during the final year of his life.
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rock musicians began exploring electric slide guitar in the early 1960s. in the uk, groups like the rolling stones, who were fans of chicago blues and chess records artists in particular, began recording songs by muddy waters, howlin' wolf, and others. the stones' second single, "i wanna be your man" (1963), featured a slide guitar break by brian jones which may be the first appearance of a slide on a rock record. critic richie unterberger commented, "particularly outstanding was brian jones's slide guitar, whose wailing howl gave the tune a raunchy bluesiness missing in the beatles' more straightforward rock 'n' roll arrangement. jones also played slide on their 1964 single "little red rooster", which reached number one on the british charts. jones' successor playing slide in the stones was mick taylor, a 20 year old virtuoso who performed on "sticky fingers" and "exile on main street". the album "let it bleed" features keith richards on slide guitar for the majority of the album.
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