Tuesday’s Tune: Love In Vain

This tune – because we scored tickets to their gig next year, and we have to celebrate with a blues favourite: Love In Vain. From their 1969 album Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones song Love In Vain was originally written by the blues-master Robert Johnson in 1937.

“Love in Vain was such a beautiful song. Mick and I both loved it, and at the time I was working and playing around with Gram Parsons, and I started searching around for a different way to present it, because if we were going to record it there was no point in trying to copy the Robert Johnson style or ways and styles. We took it a little bit more country, a little bit more formalized, and Mick felt comfortable with that.” – Keith Richards.

It’s tender, sometimes so much so it’s cruel. I can’t get enough of that hollow sound inside Mick’s vowels. Oh, and that slide guitar… Yes, Mr Taylor.  A perfect nightcap-kind-of-a-tune for late on a Tuesday evening.

This piece of footage below is taken from their 1972 tour – glitter, rhinestones, jumpsuit et all. Enjoy!