Friday, August 23, 2019

“Honky Tonk Women” #1 8/23/1969

One of the greatest barroom rock and roll records of them all from the Rolling Stones. The song had its genesis months earlier when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and their girlfriends were on vacation at a Brazilian ranch and developed the idea of a country-sounding rocker, which morphed into a bar blues number. These were the last recording sessions for guitarist Brian Jones; he was fired due to addiction issues and died in July 1969, replaced by Mick Taylor. The cowbell intro was done by the Stones’ producer Jimmy Miller. An iconic 60’s tune. We need more cowbell.


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