The band give Jagger underrated support with vocal harmonies in the early parts of the verse (when the title's sung), and especially in the bridge, where the band almost taunts the lover of the song with repeated chants of "you'll come running back." The implicit gospel influences of the song come to the surface in the instrumental break, where Jagger practically gives a spoken sermon over more of (presumably Keith Richards's) stinging blues guitar licks. Like more early Rolling Stones than is acknowledged, "Time Is On My Side" is quite the slow ballad, but one which has a lot of insouciant blues-soul, particularly in Mick Jagger's drawn-out, drawling delivery.
The song starts - at least, the most familiar version of it starts (more on this later) - with a piercing, memorable drawn-out bluesy guitar lick, both spiritual in its arch and raunchy. But the Rolling Stones did make it their own, with a reinterpretation that was more substantial, and substantially different from the original, than most of their early covers. Like most of their early recordings, it was a cover, this one of a single by the great New Orleans soul singer Irma Thomas.
"Time Is On My Side" was the first really big American hit for the Rolling Stones, reaching #6 at the end of 1964.
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