from 1993 CD notes
KEITH: “This was done in the basement of my house, this grand Edwardian villa called Villa Nellcote in Villefranche near Cap Ferrat, where we did all of Exile. I remember writing the riff upstairs in the very elegant front room, and we took it downstairs the same evening and cut it. A lot of the time when ideas come that quick, we don’t put down lyrics, we do what we call ‘vowel movement’. You just bellow over the top of it, to get the right sounds for the track.”
MICK: “Tumbling Dice was written to fit Keith’s riff. It’s about gambling and love, an old blues trick. I had a lot of friends at that time who used to fly to Las Vegas for the weekend.”
PERSONNEL: Mick Jagger (lyricist, lead vocal, rhythm guitar); Keith Richards (composer, lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocal); Mick Taylor (slide guitar, bass guitar); Charlie Watts (drums)
plus
Jimmy Miller (producer, drums in coda); Nicky Hopkins (piano); Bobby Keys (sax); Jim Price (trumpet, trombone); Clydie King, Venetta Fields, Sherlie Matthews (backing vocals); Andy Johns, Glyn Johns, Joe Zagarino, Jeremy Gee (engineers); Robin Millar (asst. engineer)
Recorded Aug. 3, 1971 – March ’72 and released April 15
on vinyl ROLLING STONES 45 #19103 (24176 SP)
Reissued 1993 on VIRGIN Records CD #72438-64682-2-2,
“Jump Back The Best of the ROLLING STONES ’71 – ’93”