Gimme Shelter by Merry Clayton
This jam was posted by 50 people
but krisvire was first
Storm is threatning
Going to end up like I started with #thisismyjam. With my girl Merry. #fierce #diva #queen
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Better than the Rolling Stones version. No contest.
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It's been a long time coming, but finally I've made it to my 100th jam! Okay, don't all clap at once, I know some of you guys,no names @melissapulo, are well into your hundreds. What can I say ? I've always been late to the party. Anyway, enough of my yakkin', here's Merry Clayton's storming cover of the Stones classic she originally duetted with Mr Jagger on, accompanied by suitably powerful images.
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Bloody awesome version that I listen to all the time.
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notes from the YT uploader:
Street Fighting Woman!
Merry was the woman dueting with Mick on the Rolling Stones' original 1969 recording of "Gimme Shelter". Who better to interpret it the following year than Merry herself? She's accompanied on keys by her friend, the immeasurably important Billy Preston, who was as much the Sixth Stone as the Fifth Beatle in these years. The galloping roar of guitar may be David T. Walker, although the album credits don't clarify.
She was born on Christmas Day, and what a gift!
"War, children, is just a shot away/ See the fire is sweeping my very streets today..."
Any resemblence between the events in this video and the present day is entirely up to you...
Be sure to send some love to Merry on her personal MySpace page!:
http://www.myspace.com/themerryclayton
(All rights reserved. Fan-made video for promotion of the artist.)
Tym Stevens
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