# Brown Sugar guitar solo

> Keith Richards's guitar solo on Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones (1971). From the album Sticky Fingers. Watch from the solo, plus the story and gear.

Canonical URL: <https://greatestsolos.com/song/the-rolling-stones-brown-sugar/>

The Rolling Stones, 1971, from *Sticky Fingers*. Solo by *Keith Richards*.

Keith's open-G riff is the star, framing one of the band's most enduring hits.

Brown Sugar by The Rolling Stones is #18 in our ranking of the best The Rolling Stones guitar solos. The solo is played by Keith Richards and the song was released in 1971.

## In our lists

- [The Best The Rolling Stones Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/the-rolling-stones-guitar-solos/) — #18

## Sources

### Who played the guitar solo on Brown Sugar?

Keith Richards played the solo on The Rolling Stones's Brown Sugar (1971).

---

GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)