WCSX Classic Cuts : Honky Tonk Women
WCSX Classic Cuts The Rolling Stones: “Honky Tonk Women” The Hook: New member helps country-western send-up “metamorphose” into bluesy stomper Year Released: 1969 Album: Through the Past Darkly (Big Hits…
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The Rolling Stones: "Honky Tonk Women"
The Hook: New member helps country-western send-up "metamorphose" into bluesy stomper
Year Released: 1969
Album: Through the Past Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Writers: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
Stats: Topped Billboard's Hot 100 for four weeks
The Background: On vacation in Brazil, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards discovered the existence of cowboys there, and start fooling around with country-western-inspired ideas. When they got it back to the studio some months later, new guitarist Mick Taylor, doing his very first recording with The Stones, helped turn it into what Keith calls "a swampy black blues thing."
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards on "Honky Tonk Women." OC:...blues thing. :18
"It started with like a real country, like a real honky put on sort of hokey thing. And then a couple of months later we were writing songs and recording and somehow by some metamorphosis, it suddenly went into this sort of swampy, black, blues thing.”
