Just keep hearing this one on the radio, by various artists. And I just love Keith giving us his rendition of this gem. Who inspired Keith to do it on the last tour? Charlie & his jazz roots? It actually fits him perfectly, for his elder setlist style. Just so cool.

Keith has been fooling with this song at least as far back as '77 (toronto tapes)

I like the '02-03 version, especially after Keith mentioned the arrangement was inspired by Otis Redding.

didn't play it in '02 - but his '03 version reminded me of the '97 arrangement of All About You.

>> Keith has been fooling with this song at least as far back as '77 <<

The Nearness of You isn't on Keith's Toronto 77 tapes, actually - it first appears in the 81 sessions in LA and at Longview Farm.
some early bootleg stuck stuff from Toronto 77 in with stuff from those 81 sessions without identifying which is which,
and then further bootlegs proliferated that mistake.

what Keith recorded in Toronto 77 features guitar, piano and vocals; the LA 81 recordings have guitar, piano, vocals and Bobby on sax;
the Longview Farm 81 tracks are solo Keith on piano and vocals.

or to put it another way ... the extant Toronto 77 tapes include:
Worried Life Blues (with Stu on piano; Keith played everything on the other tracks)
Oh What a Feeling
Say It's Not You
She Still Comes Around
Sing Me Back Home
Apartment Number Nine
Keith supposedly also cut Six Days on the Road and Bad Luck at these sessions, but if he did, the tapes haven't surfaced.

LA, march 81 (with Bobby Keys):
Over the Rainbow
Blue Moon
Don't
The Nearness Of You
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
and some instrumentals

Longview Farm, may 81:
Oh What a Feeling
Say It's Not You
Sing Me Back Home
Apartment Number Nine
Don't
The Nearness of You
Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
All I Have to Do Is Dream
Blue Monday


"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith

Charlie Watts and band on the Japanese 'Long Ago and Far Away'!

on keno's site he claims there's a studio version of the song-can somebody post it!

3-4 takes of it on Voodoo Stew 4CD set - Vigatone



ROCKMAN

thanks for the info rockman!
but now please post so ican thank you for that too!!

OK...OK

Nearness of You....[d28.yousendit.com]



ROCKMAN

the Longview Farm 81 version is on this site:
[www.studiowner.com]

OK OK here's another
[s62.yousendit.com]




ROCKMAN

Another...for ya
[d10.yousendit.com]



ROCKMAN

Thanks thanks thanks ROCKMAN-gold rings on ya!
You're the man!You rock!!!
(i just love the @#$%&' song)
Thanks again!!

The Nearness Of You - Keith Richards, was used in the film BASQUIAT, though I don't know if it featured on the soundtrack.