The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women

“Honky Tonk Women” is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released as a non-album single on 4 July 1969 in the United Kingdom, and a week later in the United States (although a country version called “Country Honk” was later included on the album Let It Bleed). It topped the charts in both nations. The song was on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

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The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women

Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women (Hyde Park, 1969)03:37

Keith Richards has called the song “the culmination of everything we were good at at the time.” Bassist Bill Wyman referred to it as “triumphant.” And both men agree, in their respective memoirs, that even while The Rolling Stones were in the heat of recording and mixing “Honky Tonk Women,” they had a hit on their hands. Or as Richards, in his inimitable fashion, put it: “[It’s] one of those tracks that you knew was a number one before you’d finished the mother—er.”

“Honky Tonk Women” was the track that introduced Stones fans to guitarist Mick Taylor. The former member of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers was brought in to replace founding member Brian Jones. Taylor – only 20 at the time – provided the glue for the song, helping the transition from verse to chorus with country-blues licks that blended the cornpone picking of Don Rich with the psych-tinged tones of Peter Green.

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