Merry Clayton: Gimme Shelter (A&M Ode 70 series, stereo, AMLS 995, 39s 11d)
Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 21 November 1970
OVER THE last year or so Merry Clayton has graduated in status to the almost royal ranks of the fashionable clique of international sessioneers. Her presence really being felt on the Stones' Let It Bleed album, during which she had a right old vocal tear-up with Mick on 'Gimme Shelter'.
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