Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones - MP3 instrumental karaoke

“Honky Tonk Women” is one of the best distillations of the Rolling Stones’ sound, driven by a muscular Keith Richards guitar riff, a groovy drum line by Charlie Watts, and an assured vocal performance by Mick Jagger. The song was written by the songwriting team of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jimmy Miller. It was released as a non-album single in 1969. Like much of the band’s music, “Honky Tonk Women” draws influence from American blues, with the Rolling Stones putting their own aggressive spin on the genre. “Honky Tonk Women” reached Number 1 on the UK Singles chart, as well as the US Billboard Hot 100. An alternate version of the song, sporting a more traditional country sound and re-named “Country Honk,” would later appear on the band’s album Let It Bleed that same year. Keith Richards would go on to point out that the Let It Bleed version (renamed “Country Honk”) is how the song was originally written. In 2014, “Honky Tonk Women” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.