Keith Richards: Nearness of You Video
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Keith alone singing and playing piano performing “Nearness Of You” by Hoagy Carmichael and “Sing Me Back Home” by Merle Haggard. These two recordings come from a Keith bootleg called “A Stone Alone,” which features recordings that Keith did back in 1977 when he couldn’t leave Canada due to being busted for heroin in Toronto. It also features some home recordings he did in 1981. The bootleg shows that Keith has exquisite taste in music as he covers songs by people like George Jones, Merle Haggard, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Everly Brothers, etc. Keith’s vocals are sweet, delicate, heartfelt and completely soulful — he gets completely inside each song, and makes each one feel like an autobiography of sorts.
I was particularly happy to have found this version, finally, and to know where to get the recording, because this is one of the better songs Julian Schnabel chose for his movie Basquiat. Unfortunately, maybe paying for the rights to the song was cost-prohibitive, as it never made it to the soundtrack. Here it is, and now you know where to find it. Hearing this song again makes me almost as happy as the time I read David Rees refer to Heineken as “The Poor Man’s Pinot Grigio.”
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