 By this time, Lomax was involved with a band called Heavy Jelly, but he recorded one last single for Apple in October 1969, a Harrison-produced cover of "How the Web Was Woven".Nicky Hopkins was booked to play on the session but was unable to return from Los Angeles in time, and then Harrison was forced to postpone when his mother became seriously ill. Leon Russell agreed to participate on the rescheduled session, and contributed piano, organ and guitar.Lomax had been reluctant to record the song – in a 1974 interview he said that he had to be "pretty well talked into [doing] it" – but he was impressed with Russell's versatility on "How the Web Was Woven", and credited him with also playing the drums on the recording.