Gimme Shelter by Merry Clayton
“About time i got on board with a funky cover for #funkyfriday. So wrap your lugs around this.”
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About time i got on board with a funky cover for #funkyfriday. So wrap your lugs around this.
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Bloody awesome version that I listen to all the time.
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Going to end up like I started with #thisismyjam. With my girl Merry. #fierce #diva #queen
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Storm is threatning
Better than the Rolling Stones version. No contest.
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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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