Edit 2b for headphones, April 2023. Edit 2b for headphones, April 2023. Video from the AbkcoVevo channel https://www.youtube.com/@ABKCOVEVO/videos
"Country Honk" (official lyric video): https://youtu.be/8Fx_VjKjJ3I?feature=shared
Directed by Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy at Yes Please Productions.
Executive Producer: Julian Klein.
Producers: Dina Kanner, Robin Klein.
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The song was recorded March 10 - November 2, 1969. Brian Jones may have played guitar on the first take of this song. Released on the album "Let It Bleed" on December 5, 1969. This was one of the first songs that Mick Taylor played on with the Stones.
Lead vocal: Mick Jagger. Acoustic guitar: Keith Richards. Slide guitar: Mick Taylor. Drums: Charlie Watts. Fiddle: Byron Berline. Backing vocals: Keith Richards & Nanette Newman aka Nanette Workman. Source file of the edit: Japanese mini lp "Let It Bleed".
Robert Cross wrote:
If you hear the Stones playing anything approaching American country music you can be sure its entirely Keith Richards' doing. Mick Jagger went along with it but it certainly wasn't anything HE initiated. They both kept things on the silly side to make sure Nashville didn't think they were serious about being country music artists. It was just Keith paying homage to a music style he enjoyed listening to.
COUNTRY HONK
(Jagger/Richards)
I'm sittin' in a bar tippling a jar in Jackson
and on the street the summer sun it shines
there's many a bar-room queen
I've had in Jackson
but 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 laid a divorcee in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
the lady she all dressed me up in roses
she blew my nose and then she blew my mind
it's the honky tonk women
gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
it's the honky tonk women
gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues
it's the honky tonk women
gimme, gimme, gimme those honky tonk blues
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