Honky Tonk Women

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"Honky Tonk Women"
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Single by the Rolling Stones
B-side "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
Released4 July 1969 (1969-07-04)
RecordedJune 1969
Studio Olympic, London
Genre
Length3:03
Label
Songwriter(s) Jagger–Richards
Producer(s) Jimmy Miller
Rolling Stones UK singles chronology
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
(1968)		"Honky Tonk Women"
(1969)		"Brown Sugar"
(1971)
Rolling Stones USsingles chronology
"Street Fighting Man"
(1968)		"Honky Tonk Women"
(1969)		"Brown Sugar"
(1971)
"Country Honk"
Song by the Rolling Stones
from the album Let It Bleed
Released5 December 1969 (1969-12-05)
RecordedJune and October 1969
Genre
Length3:10
Label
Songwriter(s) Jagger/Richards
Producer(s) Jimmy Miller

"Country Honk" is a country version of "Honky Tonk Women", recorded before it but released five months later on the album Let It Bleed (1969). As noted above, the country arrangement was the original concept of "Honky Tonk Women". Richards has maintained that "Country Honk" is how "Honky Tonk Women" was originally written.

"Country Honk" was recorded at Olympic Studios. Byron Berline played the fiddle on the track, and has said that Gram Parsons was responsible for him being chosen for the job (Berline had previously recorded with Parsons' band the Flying Burrito Brothers). Producer Glyn Johns suggested that Berline should record his part on the pavement outside the studio to add ambiance to the number. Sam Cutler, the Rolling Stones' tour manager, performed the car horn at the beginning of the track. [15] Nanette Workman performs backing vocals on this version (although the album sleeve credits actress Nanette Newman). Berline's fiddle and all vocals were recorded at Elektra. There is a bootleg recording in existence that contains neither the fiddle nor Mick Taylor's slide guitar.

Personnel

According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, [16] except where noted:

"Honky Tonk Women"

"Country Honk"

Charts and certifications

Notes

  1. ↑ Margotin and Guesdon write Ian Stewart contributed piano, [19] while authors Andy Babiuk and Greg Prevost write it was Hopkins. [17]
  2. ↑ While Babiuk and Prevost credit Bell with the song's backing vocals, [17] Margotin and Guesdon instead write it was Reparata and the Delrons, Doris Troy and Nanette Workman. [20]
  3. ↑ Margotin and Guesdon are uncertain whether Jagger or the Stones' tour manager, Sam Cutler, honked the car's horn. [21] Babiuk and Prevost write the horn was from Cutler's car. [18]

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