Released as a non-album single in 1969, "Honky Tonk Woman" went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for four weeks. (Another version, "Country Honk," appeared on the album Let it Bleed.) As Keith Richards explained in a promotional interview, the song's cowboy theme was inspired by a Brazilian ranch where he and Mick Jagger were vacationing.
"We really thought we were like real cowboys," Richards continued.
"Anyway, it started out a real country honk put on, a hokey thing. And then couple of months later we were writing songs and recording," Richards explained. "And somehow by some metamorphosis it suddenly went into this little swampy, black thing, a Blues thing. Really, I can't give you a credible reason of how it turned around from that to that. Except there's not really a lot of difference between white country music and Black country music. It's just a matter of nuance and style. I think it has to do with the fact that we were playing a lot around with open tunings at the time. So we were trying songs out just to see if they could be played in open tuning. And that one just sunk in."
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"That's Jimmy [Miller, producer] playing the cowbell," Charlie Watts said, "and either he comes in wrong, or I come in wrong — but Keith comes in right, which makes the whole thing right."
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