Following the River
Who's in this video
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Bill Wyman
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Keyboards -
Charlie Watts
Drums -
Jimmy Miller
Producer, drums, cowbell -
Keith Richards
Guitar, lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitar
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About this video
Directed by Julian Gibbs, “Following the River” is an atmospheric blend of film, animation and archive footage. Follow the river, and take a ride from Chicago to the Deep South. Dreamy, nostalgic sepia production enhances Nicky Hopkins’ melancholy piano, while Mick sings with pain and gratitude of love slipping away.
The video charts in reverse the journey many musicians made from the South to Chicago, the spiritual home of the Blues. By road, by train, by Greyhound, along the Mississippi itself, the people travel, following the river to their own journey’s end.
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Following the River
Previously unreleased soul from Exile On Main St. -
Mick presents the Stones In Exile
Mick introduces the documentary in Cannes, France 2010.
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Comments (148)
“my favorite stones song is sympathy for the devil.it exposes human beings subconiously and in some cases knowingly creating fictitious entities to to pass the book of blame for our frailties as humans.its a powerful song.maybe todays leaders could do with listening to this instead of sending their young citizens to war for no reason.a war with whats looking more like it has religious undertones.bands like the stones/the beatles/and the great ray davies.gave me a far better pre adult education than my sad christian brother teachers.lola by the kinks had me analising the inner tortures of a cross dresser while my mother and father where probably discussing who was going to tell me about the birds and bees]bands like these guys harnessed this power to make us look .and to have a f.....g good time while we did.thanks.ps check out my spelling .the stones are partly responsible for this too.”
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Submitted by TAYLORMacias19 (not verified) on Sat, 2010-11-13 04:37.“I can vividly remember saying to myself "i think this band is brilliant - im going to be a life long fan " after watching them on tv in 1965. Thank you so much for all the enjoyment and happiness you have brought to my life.
Submitted by Mike Gibbs (not verified) on Sat, 2010-10-30 09:57.mike”
“BEAUTIFUL SONG,
Submitted by Carolina (not verified) on Wed, 2010-10-13 05:19.I'M STILL WAITING FOR YOU HERE IN ARGENTINA!!
I LOVE YOU, STONES ♥”
“This song is wonderful, full of soul. The video is amazing too. Song with such quality is very rare nowdays. Thank you Rolling Stones!”
Submitted by ulisses (not verified) on Sat, 2010-08-07 01:00.“This band is amazing, I hope they keep rocking on and on...”
Submitted by Marcuci, Mr (not verified) on Thu, 2010-07-29 20:34.“I agree with Charlie I think the drum loop sucks, the lead sucks it sounds like they all stayed home & phoned it in. Maybe they should tone down all of the special effects & really get into a good jamming frame of mind. I never thought I would ever say this about the Stones but I am very disapointed with everyone but Charlie "Ode to a High Flyin Bird" Watts. That little book sums it all up in one sentence " He played from his heart."”
Submitted by Chaliq (not verified) on Sat, 2010-07-24 17:36.“This doesn't sound like Exile Jaggers Vocals sound like the late 90's or early 2000's I can't hear any guitars Neither Keith or Mick Taylor & to top it oof this song is way overproduced nothin like Exile @ all. They may have written it then but it doesn't sound recorded then.”
Submitted by Chaliq (not verified) on Sat, 2010-07-24 17:13.“Very bluesy.... very gospel... awesome,.. I have been to every Stones tour since 89.........
1989 Steel Wheels - Philadelphia (don't recall venue)
2004 Voodoo Lounge - RFK Stadium, Washington DC
2007 Bridges To Babylon - Jack Kent Cooke Stadium, Landover, Maryland
2009 - No Security MCI Center - Washington DC
2003 - Licks FedEx Field, Landover Maryland
2007 - Bigger Bank - M and T Stadium - Baltimore, MD
I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT TOUR !!!!
Eric”
Submitted by Eric Bujak (not verified) on Tue, 2010-07-13 01:56.“The Greatest Band in the world.If you ever come to Denmark again, please come an visit me and my family.Yours Ernst Hussmann”
Submitted by ernst hussmann (not verified) on Fri, 2010-07-09 23:23.“the more you listen to the stones the better they get,absolutely brilliant,hope to see you soon”
Submitted by mick francoul (not verified) on Wed, 2010-06-16 09:49.“ Plese
show a complete list of tours with dates all tours all shows.
issue ladies and gentelman the ROlling stones on dvd&cd and do a anthlogy of b -sides leftovers ect...
Submitted by jeff shrout (not verified) on Sun, 2010-06-13 18:48.please before those of us who ie, will buy, die off.
"your buying market."
thanx for all the shows, I saw seven shows from 1975 louisville,Ky. thru 1997 atlanta. God bless”
“Esse fenômeno "Rollingstoniano" é como um vulcão no mundo que atinge e influência sempre para melhor a música nesse planeta.
Estou aquardando voces aqui no Rio novamente!
"God save The Rolling Stones"
”
Submitted by Nelson (not verified) on Fri, 2010-06-11 18:12.“Thank you Mick and Rolling Stones for yet another stunning melody. You are the best, the greatest on earth.
Submitted by Tom (not verified) on Wed, 2010-06-09 10:25.I have been a fan since 1965 and I have all your music on Vinyl,CD,SACD everything.
Im just waiting for the next tour”
“" Melhor banda de rock de todos os tempos, músicas maneiras que desde pequeno escuto com meu pai, através do Álbum Let it bleed, uma fita que meu pai tem e eu ouço direto. Para min nunca haverá uma banda igual, a melhor música vem ser Gimme Shelter. Tomare que continue por muitos anos essa banda íncrivel. Parabéns por encantarem gerações. Sou um mero garoto de 14 anos mas sonho em poder ver um dia vocês de perto e ganhar algo de vocês”
Submitted by Coelho (Palhoça-Brasil) (not verified) on Tue, 2010-06-08 23:45.“ the music is clearly "Exile", but the vocal is way over the top, as many of Micks' vocals have been on the last few albums and tours...too much "plastic soul, man..."”
Submitted by ponyboy714 (not verified) on Sun, 2010-06-06 21:29.“GEWELDIG WERELDS ,KLASSE MICK EN DE BOYS,”
Submitted by theo (not verified) on Sun, 2010-06-06 07:25.“I CANT GO BY A DAY WITHOUT LISTENING OR WATCHING THEM, THEY HAVE HAD ME ADDICTED SINCE 1980 WHEN I WAS 11 YEARS OLD.
Submitted by AnonymousTrevor (not verified) on Fri, 2010-06-04 04:57.TOOK MY SON WHEN HE WAS 13 TO HIS FIRST EVER CONCERT, STONES OOURSE & RIGHT NEXT TO '"B"" STAGE.
PLEASE,PLEASE, COME BACK TO SYDNEY GUYS, WE LOVE YOU.”
“een geweldig nummer
Submitted by theo (not verified) on Wed, 2010-06-02 19:40.die je soms weer met beide benen op de grond zet,
ja t leven is mooi ,bedankt rolling stones”
“Thrilled to the bones.... just great to hear Following the River and see the new layout. On the road again!!!”
Submitted by Rob (not verified) on Wed, 2010-06-02 04:09.“This is a bit of a short story I am writing "Pilgrimage to Acapulco" that was inspired by junk use & your marvelous video. You might enjoy it, maybe not.
The Greyhound Bus Station gave Lukowski the same feeling he would get in jail, grey. Most people riding buses couldn't afford to fly, being at the bottom of the food chain. Figaro had the usual first aid kit of dope and booze in his duffle bag. In the early eighties you could ride a Greyhound with any kind of dope you wanted, because you weren't driving. The secret of successful Greyhound Bus riding was to keep your mouth shut, but be discerning when you did start up a conversation. You could keep a nice buzz on. Bring plenty of brown heroin, symmetrically snorted with gulps of Vodka. Locowski would buy a can of King Edward snuff, empty it, and put heroin in. Goin down South, bus window open, blowing sweet air in face, in reverie, fantasia and REM. Pleasing the mind, more than a plane ride on Nazi Airways could ever do.
Ebony sisters were the sable queens of the buses. I think it had to do with their marevelous purebreed genes, look at Ray Charle's mother, she loved the blind child like a RAY of moonlight, raising him to soften the worlds heart, the blessed black jesus. Lucowski at times would ride the bus for hundreds of miles, tweaking out on herion, drinking vodka with sable sisters, even making out with and enjoying jasmine scent of sweet sisterhood.
FLs Greyhound was already in Texas seven days latter. For Lucowski it was: A Greyhound in hooplets that would expand slowly at a snales pace, navigating the United States. As he looked out the open window, blinded slightly in opium vapor, he was a white black man, RAY, feeling sable sisters wrist and loving, smelling desert and tropic air, seeing yellow haze and red Georgian mud outside, but sometime going deep inside himself.”
Submitted by Figaro Lukowski (not verified) on Tue, 2010-06-01 17:25.“decepcionante,pensaba que estaría grabado desde entonces.Seguiré emocionandome con el exilio de siempre.”
Submitted by felipe (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-31 21:00.“la verdad es que me he llevado una gran decepción.Pensaba que la grabación de la canción era de entonces.La voz de Mick no es la de antes.Seguiré emocionandome con el exilio de siempre.”
Submitted by felipe (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-31 20:44.“I love the video, I watch it at least three times a day, it is cathartic for me. It is like driving in a car across America after shooting junk. It has the deep soul of gospel music, of black cocoa and pussy. It is the last road trip that could only be in a dream. I could watch it dying on the way out, and be at peace.
”
Submitted by Figaro Lukowski (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-31 17:22.“Great song”
Submitted by JImmy (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-31 12:19.“I love you. Been a fan since 1975 when rolled gold came out. then black and blue and so on.....my choice however has allways been exile , bleed, beggars, sticky and .... all of them.... dont stop...keep on... start me up. my best to mick, keith charlie! ronnie..............brian, mick and Ian..soundtrack of my life...gold rings on you..”
Submitted by Roy Bendiksen (not verified) on Fri, 2010-05-28 21:48.“I think is a nice song!
I am just wuondiring, Was in the news Jagger talk about drogs to make drogs free, I do not understand with so much money and media, how a person still think about the same think for all his life, and his massage still much focus on drugs and alchool. Does The yeang generation really need this? This is a old concept of his on experience, I am desapointed that e still helping and influence people to take drogs with his massages, I am really desapointed that he does not about a real conscience, about the real state of being as a happy human being with no drugs. Is a shame that he did not change any think in his on life, no signal of spiritual development in the band. My question is: Do you think Jagger you really collaborated for some think new, beside drugs and rock roll?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2010-05-28 13:13.Is every think the same and old, in my point of view. And very selfish, is a negative way to sale more his music.
Ekanta ”
“What a great tune. Love it as I love nearly all songs the Stones ever recorded. I'm a huge fan since I was ten!”
Submitted by Meise (not verified) on Thu, 2010-05-27 18:38.“Great video”
Submitted by JImmy (not verified) on Thu, 2010-05-27 12:20.“Great song. Hope they keep rocking always”
Submitted by Chris (not verified) on Wed, 2010-05-26 21:31.“Pretty grieving ymbolism in the video.
fast train
Submitted by Tumbleweed20 (not verified) on Wed, 2010-05-26 18:37.speeding
dreaming
crossroads
poverty
depression
bus passes by
wind is changing
we quit
get out
tombstone
underwater
”
“Thank you for doing what you do. Its nice to hear Nicky again isn't it?”
Submitted by Tumbleweed20 (not verified) on Wed, 2010-05-26 18:29.“truly they have captured many generations minds and hearts and continue to do so. ive loved em since i was 12 years old and im 58 now...still the greatest rock n roll outfit ever thanks guys for all the great times and memories youve provided this fan for life!”
Submitted by wayno (not verified) on Wed, 2010-05-26 09:51.“how boring...this is not from exile at all...just listen no edge at all...hohum”
Submitted by dave (not verified) on Tue, 2010-05-25 01:57.“Very beautiful site, for my favourite rockband.
I noticed that in the It's only rock'roll video there is Mick Taylor, but in the list of participants there is Ron Wood.”
Submitted by Michele (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-24 21:10.“The great thing about Voodoo Lounge is it didn't sound like they were pandering to anyone, or trying to 'sound like the Stones', which I think they've been guilty of from time to time, especially Dirty Work and Steel Wheels. Both solid albums, but somewhat contrived and forced into the 'stones formula'. That's the beauty of Exile, this is just a bunch of great musicians making great music, without any preconceived plans, apparently.
I'd like to see a great new Stones album created with this attitude. I don't want a great blues album or a great country album or a great rock album. I just want a great album, period.
Ultimately, I hope they go into the studio and have fun. If they enjoy the music that comes out of the experience, I'm sure Stones fans will also. ”
Submitted by Scott (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-24 15:28.“Great stuff however More than a few words ..can not be
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-24 13:05.understood !! At least by Moi .. help Flip the Switch”
“An old voice to an old video.It hits my heart.
Submitted by Tim (not verified) on Mon, 2010-05-24 09:20.Hope to see you in Holland again.Tim”
“Las ventajas de tener simpatías por el demonio: los Stones sacan obras maestras hasta de los cajones del pasado. ¡Cuando el río suena, piedras trae!”
Submitted by Sandro Romero Rey (not verified) on Sun, 2010-05-23 23:18.“Geweldig Mooi nummer.
Submitted by theo (not verified) on Sun, 2010-05-23 19:48.ALS JE ER zelfs doorheen puist van t niet
Meer rechts ziet zitten is DIT EEN nummer
DAT JE Weer Kracht Advocate in t Leven, geweldig.
”
“Mick, as the years go by I love you more and more...”
Submitted by Valerie (not verified) on Sun, 2010-05-23 18:04.“I knew you editors wouldn't print my comment, shame on Stones Ltd for censoring F words and holding back a fresh, fun and original coment!
Cheers!
Figaro Lucowski”
Submitted by Figaro Lukowski (not verified) on Sun, 2010-05-23 13:32.“great website and great Exile on Mainst boxes. but I just read about some rumours of touring in 2012 without Charlie. no way man!! no stones without charlie. :-)”
Submitted by Eibert (not verified) on Sun, 2010-05-23 11:21.“FELICIDADES PARA LA MEJOR BANDA DEL MUNDO DE TODOS LOS TIEMPOS ...!!! BRINDO POR ESTE DISCO QUE ESPERAMOS MUY ANSIOSOS Y PARA QUE VUELVAN A LA ARGENTINA MUY PERO MUY PRONTO !!! YA QUE EN MI ARGENTINA, ESTA EL MEJOR PUBLICO STONE .... !!!! MI SOMBRERO BAJO... PARA SUS MAJESTADES SATANICAS ....
Submitted by JONATAN CHARLEE (not verified) on Sat, 2010-05-22 23:29.DESDE BUENOS AIRES
ES SOLO ROCK AND ROLL....
CHARLEE ”
“Great song. A lot more of them are also good from the unreleased disc on Exile. My question is why would they not release this material for almost 40 years? Kinda crazy, I wonder how much more stuff is in the archives especially from their PRIME 70's period?”
Submitted by Steve (not verified) on Sat, 2010-05-22 13:31.“So good to see Nicky on this page!! He must have a higher place in the Stones' history... what a player! He and Keith made a good team in 67-72, the Golden Age... hope the boys will come very soon to Argentina, we love him! I'll love to hear them playing "Through the lonely nights" and "Dandelion"... 'cause dreaming is for free!! But play what you like fellas, all that you do is amazing. But please... NEVER STOP PLAYING! ”
Submitted by Diego Ortiz (not verified) on Fri, 2010-05-21 22:17.“Love the stones, loved the Exile Rarities, Plundered my soul being the best of the bunch!!. Would be great to have the boys back in the studio for a new album, been a long time since the biggest bang 2005
Keep rocking boys!!!”
Submitted by Keith (not verified) on Fri, 2010-05-21 02:51.What do you think?