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Lockdown Lick 316

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no. 316. “Let It Loose” by The Rolling Stones. Intro signature picking riff.

Played on an HB35+ standard tuned guitar with capo at 3rd fret.

Using a NUX M8 amp on clean channel with chorus and reverb. Original by Keith Richards. Apparently he used a Leslie speaker for effect.

“Let It Loose” is a song by the Rolling Stones which was released as the last song on side three of their 1972 double album Exile on Main St.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Let It Loose” is an emotional gospel blues ballad with a fervent religious feeling, the song being one of the band’s most prominent forays into soul and gospel during the Exile era after Jagger had attended the services of the Reverend James Cleveland and remained deeply impressed by the singing of the gospel choir.