The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses While the Rolling Stones had already laid the track to tape, the Burrito Brothers' version was actually the first to be released, appearing on their second album, in April 1970, one year before Sticky Fingers.
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard had a huge hit with the following epic ballad, thanks to this veritable archetype of the tragic, tortured artist, Townes Van Zandt.