Scarlet

This blues-rock number is one of three previously unreleased tracks included on the 2020 multi-format release of Goats Head Soup. Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page contributes guitar. Keith Richards remembered: "My recollection is we walked in at the end of a Zeppelin session. They were just leaving, and we were booked in next and I believe that Jimmy decided to stay. We weren't actually cutting it as a track, it was basically for a demo, a demonstration, you know, just to get the feel of it, but it came out well, with a line up like that, you know, we better use it."

The song stems from sessions at London's Island Studios in mid-October 1974, over a year after the release of Goats Head Soup. Also involved were pianist Ian Stewart, Blind Faith and Traffic bassist Ric Grech, and Joe Cocker drummer Bruce Rowland. "Keith kicked it off and I began to mold a riff around his guitar part to augment the arrangement," Page recalled. "It began to lock-in pretty soon with the musicians and we all got a successful take that evening."

Scarlet, why you wearing my heart, on your sleeve Where it ain't supposed to be Scarlet, why you tearing my heart, all to pieces, it ain't the way it's supposed to be "Scarlet" is thought to be named in honor of Page's three-year-old daughter.