“It’s quite lyrical and different from a lot of other Stones songs... I played in a different mode”: Mick Taylor lent stunning slide work to golden-era Rolling Stones classics, but he says this obscure album cut is his best performance with the band

Mick Taylor performs with the Rolling Stones in 1973.

Saying that Mick Taylor never got enough credit (literal and otherwise) for his six-string contributions to the rock 'n' roll magic the Rolling Stones created during their late-'60s to mid-'70s heyday isn't a particularly hot take. And yet, even after all this time, it remains indisputably true.

1971's Sticky Fingers, the middle child of the trio of albums that marked the Stones' towering creative peak, remains best known for, among other classic rock tentpoles, the pure filth of Brown Sugar, and the sparse, grooving Can't You Hear Me Knocking.