David Meister | No Expectations Cover (The Rolling Stones)

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“No Expectations” is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones featured on their 1968 album Beggars Banquet. It was first released as the B-side of the “Street Fighting Man” single in August 1968. The song was recorded in May 1968. Brian Jones’ acoustic slide guitar on the recording represents one of his last major contributions before leaving the band.

Inspiration and recording
This slow ballad was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. Bill Janovitz says, “The loneliness expressed in the song is palpable; all about being left behind, the song is certainly a tribute in musical and lyrical tone to such Robert Johnson blues songs as “Love in Vain” – a favourite cover of the Stones – referencing such images as a train leaving the station.”

Jagger said in a 1995 interview in Rolling Stone, “That’s Brian playing [the slide guitar]. We were sitting around in a circle on the floor, singing and playing, recording with open mikes. That was the last time I remember Brian really being totally involved in something that was really worth doing”. Accompanying Jones is Richards on acoustic rhythm guitar. Janovitz remarked that Richards, “play[s] the same open-tuned rhythm he would later use on ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want’, also contributing to that lonely ambience.” The song is also noted for its simple claves-kept beat by Charlie Watts and Nicky Hopkins’s “building single-chord organ” and ornamental turns on piano.

(Source: Wikipedia)

This is a cover song, it is not my intellectual property.

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