Rolling Stones Release Alternate ‘Brown Sugar’ Version Featuring Eric Clapton

For years Rolling Stones fans have known of a bootleg version of “Brown Sugar” featuring Eric Clapton on slide guitar, but finally the dream collaboration is getting an official release.

The alternate version of the Sticky Fingers opening track will included on the band’s upcoming reissue of that set, due out June 8.

Listen to it here:

The Clapton version of “Brown Sugar” was recorded 18 December, 1970, at Olympic Studios in London at a birthday party for guitarist Keith Richards. It also features Al Kooper on piano.

The original version was recorded over a three day session at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Ala.

Billboard