THE ROLLING STONES - SINGLE 1969





Honky Tonk Women





A : Honky Tonk Women (MJ/KR) B : You Can't Always Get What You Want (MJ/KR)


Producer : Jimmy MillerSound Engineer : Glyn JohnsRecorded : A - 12.05 - 12.06.1969, B - 17, 28.11.1968, 15.03, 28.05.1969Studio : Olympic Sound Studios, London Released : 4.07.1969 Decca F 12952
Honky Tonk Women" is a 1969 hit song by The Rolling Stones. Released as a single on July 4, 1969 in the United Kingdom, and the next day in the United States, it topped the charts in both nations.
lyric


I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis, She tried to take me upstairs for a ride. She had to heave me right across her shoulder 'Cause I just can't seem to drink you off my mind. It's the honky tonk women Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues. I played a divorcee in New York City, I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady then she covered me with roses, She blew my nose and then she blew my mind. It's the honky tonk women Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues. (Yeah!) It's the honky tonk women. Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues. (Yeah!) It's the honky tonk women. Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.


Keith Richards: “Honky Tonk Women” started in Brazil. Mick and I, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg who was pregnant with my son at the time. Which didn’t stop us going off to the Mato Grasso and living on this ranch. It’s all cowboys. It’s all horses and spurs. And Mick and I were sitting on the porch of this ranch house and I started to play, basically fooling around with an old Hank Williams idea. ‘Cause we really thought we were like real cowboys. Honky tonk women. And we were sitting in the middle of nowhere with all these horses, in a place where if you flush the john all these black frogs would fly out. It was great. The chicks loved it. Anyway, it started out a real country honk put on, a hokey thing. And then couple of months later we were writing songs and recording. And somehow by some metamorphosis it suddenly went into this little swampy, black thing, a Blues thing. Really, I can’t give you a credible reason of how it turned around from that to that. Except there’s not really a lot of difference between white Country music and black Country music. It’s just a matter of nuance and style. I think it has to do with the fact that we were playing a lot around with open tunings at the time. So we were trying songs out just to see if they could be played in open tuning. And that one just sunk in.”




US version


A : Honky Tonk Women (MJ/KR) B : You Can't Always Get What You Want (MJ/KR)

Producer : Jimmy MillerSound Engineer : Glyn JohnsRecorded : A - 12.05-12.06.1969 , B - 17,28.11.68 , 15.03, 28.05.1969Studio : Olympic Studios London Released : 5.07.1969London 45 LON 910