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"Honky Tonk Women" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released as a non-album single in July 1969 in the United Kingdom, and a week later in the United States (a country version called "Country Honk" was later included on the album Let It Bleed).
Ellen Muriel Deason (August 30, 1919 – July 16, 2012), known professionally as Kitty Wells, was an American pioneering female country music singer. She broke down a barrier for women in country music with her 1952 hit recording "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", which also made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts and turned her into the first female ...
His more popular recordings were of honky-tonk numbers, such as "Close All the Honky Tonks", and "Honky Tonk Women". [2] Walker played a minor role in the 1985 Patsy Cline biographical film, Sweet Dreams. [3] Walker died of colon cancer in September 2008, at the age of 81 in Hendersonville, Tennessee. [3] [4]
In the 1950s, honky tonk entered its golden age, with the popularity of Webb Pierce, Hank Locklin, Lefty Frizzell, Faron Young, George Jones, and Hank Williams. In the mid- to late 1950s, rockabilly (which melded honky-tonk country with rhythm and blues) and the slick country music of the Nashville sound ended honky-tonk's initial period of ...
Sheryl Crow appears on "Honky Tonk Women", while Solomon Burke sings on his own "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", which the Rolling Stones originally covered on The Rolling Stones No. 2 in 1965. The Rolling Stones released two subtly different versions of cover art for Live Licks.
Here’s Keith, in all his hooligan brashness, cool as a cucumber onstage, churning out the guitar solo to “Honky Tonk Women.” And we can’t put this together in our heads with what just ...
The song was originally released on the B-side of "Honky Tonk Women" in July 1969. Although it did not chart at the time, London Records re-serviced the single in 1973 and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" reached number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 34 on the Cashbox Top 100 Singles chart. [15]
"Honky Tonk Man" 22 — — — Is It Any Wonder That I Love You "What About the Hurt" 44 — 37 — 1971 "Is It Any Wonder That I Love You" 60 — — — "I Got a Woman" 40 — 43 — Chain Don't Take to Me "A Chain Don't Take to Me" 30 — — — 1972 "When You Say Love" 6 — 10 — When You Say Love "It Takes You" 21 — 34 — Lonely ...