"Honky Tonk Women" is distinctive as it opens not with a guitar riff, but with a beat played on a cowbell. And it got turned around to this other thing by Mick Taylor, who got into a completely different feel, throwing it off the wall another way." However, in 1979 Taylor recalled it this way: "I definitely added something to Honky Tonk Women, but it was more or less complete by the time I arrived and did my overdubs." the song was originally written as a real Hank Williams/ Jimmie Rodgers/1930s country song. In an interview in the magazine Crawdaddy!, Richards credits Taylor for influencing the track: ". The song was transformed into the familiar electric, riff-based hit single "Honky Tonk Women" sometime in the spring of 1969, prior to Mick Taylor joining the group. It was his last recording session with the band. Brian Jones was present during these sessions and may have played on the first handful of takes and demos. The band initially recorded the track called "Country Honk," in London in early March 1969. Thematically, a "honky tonk woman" refers to a dancing girl in a western bar who may work as a prostitute the setting for the narrative in the first verse of the rock-and-roll version is Memphis, Tennessee: "I met a gin soaked bar-room queen in Memphis", while "Country Honk" sets the first verse in Jackson, Mississippi: "I'm sittin' in a bar, tipplin' a jar in Jackson".
2) and a honky-tonk version entitled "Country Honk" with slightly different lyrics, which appeared on Let It Bleed (1969). Two versions of the song were recorded by the band: the familiar hit which appeared on the 45 single and their collection of late 1960s singles, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards while on holiday in Brazil from late December 1968 to early January 1969, inspired by Brazilian " caipiras" (inhabitants of rural, remote areas of parts of Brazil) at the ranch where Jagger and Richards were staying in Matão, São Paulo. 3 Releases on compilation albums and live recordings.The song was on Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. 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). " Honky Tonk Women" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. JSTOR ( July 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.