{"id":288883,"date":"2026-09-18T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288883\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T12:06:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T12:06:20","slug":"hear-keith-richards-cover-blues-classic-bright-lights-big-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288883\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Keith Richards Cover Blues Classic ‘Bright Lights, Big City’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rolling Stones<\/a> guitarist Keith Richards<\/a> has unveiled a new cover of \u201cBright Lights, Big City,\u201d the blues classic originally recorded by Jimmy Reed.<\/p>\n

The rendition was recorded for Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, the soundtrack to the upcoming new edition of the popular video game.<\/p>\n

The tune chugs along to a classic blues riff, with drums and guitar powering the minimalist arrangement. Richards\u2019 grizzled, distinctive vocals feel both weathered and wise as he sings:\u00a0\u201cBright lights, big city went to my baby’s head \/ Bright lights, a big city gone to my baby’s head \/ I tried to tell the woman, but she don’t believe a word I said.\u201d\u00a0Listen to Richards’ version of “Bright Lights, Big City” below.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Top 10 Keith Richards Rolling Stones Songs<\/a><\/p>\n

Richards is one of many popular musicians featured on the eclectic soundtrack to Grand Theft Auto VI. Country star Morgan Wallen, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Rauw Alejandro and rappers Yung Lean and Travis Scott are among the other artists, with further more still to be revealed. The full 34-song album officially arrives Nov. 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keith Richards’ High Praise of Jimmy Reed<\/p>\n

Reed released his original version of \u201cBright Lights, Big City\u201d in 1961. Richards has long been an admirer of the blues legend’s work, describing him as a \u201cgenius\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was totally unique amongst even all of the other 1950s and \u201960s bluesmen out of Chicago,\u201d Richards noted<\/a>. \u201cHe has such a distinctive sound. It was almost as if he was laying out to you. Like, \u2018Look, it\u2019s really not hard to do. You\u2019ve just got to relax and get into it\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are thousands and thousands of Blues players out there and to find a unique sound and a way to play it is an extra touch of genius,\u201d Richards continued. \u201cJimmy Reed had it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gallery Credit: Allison Rapp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has unveiled a new cover of \u201cBright Lights, Big City,\u201d the blues classic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-288883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}