first cut is the deepest

"The First Cut Is The Deepest" was well known in Stewart's native UK thanks to P. cast of the crown P. the minimalist less is now Arnold's version, but little known in America, which was a problem when he asked the Alabama musicians to back him on it "Nobody knew how the song went, apart from myself," he wrote in his Anthology liner notes "So a phone call was made to LA and some madman