Sunday, August 3, 2025

Country Honk - the Rolling Stones

Country Honk - the Rolling Stones
3:07
Let It Bleed, 1969
Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

Fun fact: this is the original version of "Honky Tonk Women," the much more successful single.  This one features some steel guitar work and a fiddle, and Jagger sings in an affected country twang.  Ry Cooder claimed that he showed Richards a country riff he was working on, and a few days later the Glimmer Twins came out with this song, admittedly an outlier in their usual blues-rock repertoire.  Some people believe it, most Stones fans don't.  While it's a fun singalong, the whole thing comes off to me as a bit of a joke, and I can see why the later rock version is more popular.

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Country Honk - the Rolling Stones

Country Honk - the Rolling Stones 3:07 Let It Bleed , 1969 Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards Fun fact: this is the original version...