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The Rolling Stones recorded Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain" for their 1969 album, Let It Bleed. Critic Richie Unterberger describes it "as close to the roots of acoustic down-home blues as the Stones ever got." Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards recalled
"For a time we thought the songs that were on that first album [King of the Delta Blues] were the only recordings (Robert Johnson had) made, and then suddenly around '67 or '68 up comes this second (bootleg) collection that included Love in Vain. Love in Vain was such a beautiful song. Mick and I both loved it, and at the time I was working and playing around with Gram Parsons, and I started searching around for a different way to present it, because if we were going to record it there was no point in trying to copy the Robert Johnson style or ways and styles. We took it a little bit more country, a little bit more formalized, and Mick felt comfortable with that". In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Mick Jagger commented on the song's arrangement: "We changed the arrangement quite a lot from Robert Johnson's. We put in extra chords that aren't there on the Robert Johnson version. Made it more country. And that's another strange song, because it's very poignant. Robert Johnson was a wonderful lyric writer, and his songs are quite often about love, but they're desolate".
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The Rolling Stones recorded Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain" for their 1969 album, Let It Bleed. Critic Richie Unterberger describes it "as close to the roots of acoustic down-home blues as the Stones ever got." Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards recalled "For a time we thought the songs that were on that first album [King of the Delta Blues] were the only recordings (Robert Johnson had) made, and then suddenly around '67 or '68 up comes this second (bootleg) collection that included Love in Vain. Love in Vain was such a beautiful song. Mick and I both loved it, and at the time I was working and playing around with Gram Parsons, and I started searching around for a different way to present it, because if we were going to record it there was no point in trying to copy the Robert Johnson style or ways and styles. We took it a little bit more country, a little bit more formalized, and Mick felt comfortable with that". In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Mick Jagger commented on the song's arrangement: "We changed the arrangement quite a lot from Robert Johnson's. We put in extra chords that aren't there on the Robert Johnson version. Made it more country. And that's another strange song, because it's very poignant. Robert Johnson was a wonderful lyric writer, and his songs are quite often about love, but they're desolate".