I was showing “O Brother, Where art Thou?” to my son last night. How many times have I heard the tune “Man of Constant Sorrow”? 10,000 times? Only now just noticed the line “Maybe your friends think I’m just a stranger / some face they’ll never see no more” that Mick, apparently, repurposed for “Let it Loose.”

Mick said that was Keith's doing in an interview I have somewhere. It might have been years ago in CREEM.

Incidentally, the way the narrative focus shifts after the first verse always struck me as clear proof that both were writing the verses.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2019-11-02 17:41 by Rocky Dijon.

Thanks, Rocky. Did not know that.

I think maybe they heard it vis Bob Dylan's first album. Dylan also did House of the Rising Sun on that album, and In My Time of Dyin'.

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I think maybe they heard it vis Bob Dylan's first album. Dylan also did House of the Rising Sun on that album, and In My Time of Dyin'.

Those lyrics do not appear in Dylan's version.

Covered by many artists …..
Mick coulda heard Stanley's version or
Roscoe Holcomb or even back to Emry Arthur ….



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I think maybe they heard it vis Bob Dylan's first album. Dylan also did House of the Rising Sun on that album, and In My Time of Dyin'.

Those lyrics do not appear in Dylan's version.

I think Dylan came out with "Your mother says that I'm a stranger, my face you'll never see no more".

I think Jagger would've heard Dylan's version, and then dipped back to earlier versions. Certainly, Led Zep heard Dylan's version of In My Time of Dyin' and then went back to the blues roots of it. Likewise, Alan Price based his arrangement of House of The Rising Sun on Dylan's version, as opposed to Odetta's or Dave Van Ronk