
Released April 23, 1971 on Sticky Fingers — the Rolling Stones' first album on their own Rolling Stones Records label — 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' represents the band at a pivotal cultural apex. Recorded at Olympic Studios and Stargroves (Mick Jagger's country estate) using the Stones' custom 16-track mobile studio, the track captures a genuine one-take spontaneous performance including an unplanned extended jam…
A canonical text of blues-rock and hard rock, ranked #25 on Rolling Stone magazine's 2004 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. The track's bipartite structure — concise rock song fusing into an extended Latin-inflected improvisational jam — was unprecedented in the Stones' catalog…
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