Honky Tonk Women (Cover) -- Josh Turner

[NurseJackie]

Josh Turner Guitar
Published on Oct 21, 2016
By the Rolling Stones, duh. This is the tune that first got me hooked on them.

Filmed on a Rebel T3i.

Thank you Patreon Patrons!! This video took nearly 20 hours to make, and I wouldn't have time for that if it weren't for you.

"Honky Tonk Women" is a 1969 hit song by the Rolling Stones. It was a single-only release, available from 4 July 1969 in the United Kingdom, and a week later in the United States (although a country version called "Country Honk" was later included on the album Let It Bleed). It topped the charts in both nations.[3]

Inspiration and recording

The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards while on holiday in Brazil from late December 1968 to early January 1969, inspired by Brazilian "caipiras" (inhabitants of rural, remote areas of parts of Brazil) at the ranch where Jagger and Richards were staying in Matão, São Paulo.[4] Two versions of the song were recorded by the band: the familiar hit which appeared on the 45 single and their collection of late 1960s singles, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2); and a honky-tonk version entitled "Country Honk" with slightly different lyrics, which appeared on Let It Bleed (1969).

Thematically, a "honky tonk woman" refers to a dancing girl in a western bar who may work as a prostitute[citation needed]; the setting for the narrative in the first verse of the rock-and-roll version is Memphis, Tennessee: "I met a gin soaked bar-room queen in Memphis", while "Country Honk" sets the first verse in Jackson, Mississippi: "I'm sittin' in a bar, tipplin' a jar in Jackson".[5]

[mr_lebowski]

1. Josh and his Cohort always get rec from me ...

That's flippin' sweet. Josh is talented as hell, man ...

[NurseJackie]

2. I know! I've subscribed to his channel and I often check for new stuff.

He and his crew always impress me with their covers AND with their original tunes too.