"Honky Tonk Woman" Ukulele cover by Little 6ster

Don't have much time at the moment, but I love this 1969 song and that was my intention to play it ...and as well, I wanted to pay tribute to my kind YT friend DandyBlues from Brazil ...so when I found the story of the song, I knew it was the good one!

Sorry for the purists it's a G song and I did it in C! ;°)

http://www.youtube.com/user/DandyBlues

"Honky Tonk Women" is a 1969 hit song by The Rolling Stones. Released as a single on 4 July 1969 in the UK and a week later in the US, it topped the charts in both nations.
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 gauchos at the ranch where Jagger and Richards were staying in Matão, São Paulo, the song was originally conceived as an acoustic country song. Richards has said: "[It] was originally written as a real Hank Williams/Jimmie Rogers/1930s country song."
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. The concert rendition of the song featured on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! differs from both the hit version and the country version, with a markedly different guitar introduction and an entirely different second verse.
Thematically, a "honky tonk woman" refers to a dancing girl in a western bar who may work as a prostitute; the setting for the narrative in the first verse of the blues version is Memphis, while "Country Honk" sets the first verse in Jackson.

"ked bar-room queen in Memphis"

"I'm sittin' in a bar, tipplin' a jar in Jackson"

The band initially recorded the track called "Country Honk", in London in early February 1969. The song was transformed into the familiar electric, riff-based hit single "Honky Tonk Women" sometime in the spring of 1969, prior to Mick Taylor's joining the group. In an interview in the magazine Crawdaddy, Richards credits Taylor for influencing the track: "... the song was originally written as a real Hank Williams/Jimmie Rodgers/1930s country song. And it got turned around to this other thing by Mick Taylor, who got into a completely different feel, throwing it off the wall another way." However, in 1979 Taylor recalled it this way: "I definitely added something to Honky Tonk Women, but it was more or less complete by the time I arrived and did my overdubs."
The song is distinctive as it opens not with a guitar riff, but with a beat played on a cowbell. The Rolling Stones' producer Jimmy Miller performed the cowbell for the recording.
Ry Cooder has asserted that he originated the song's main guitar riff, and has accused the Rolling Stones of "ripping him off". Rolling Stones pianist Ian Stewart said of the track: "It's bloody ten times Keith you hear."

"Country Honk" is a country version of "Honky Tonk Women", released five months after on the album Let it Bleed. As noted above the country arrangement was the original concept of "Honky Tonk Women".
According to some sources "Country Honk" was recorded at the Elektra recording studio in Los Angeles. Byron Berline played the fiddle on the track, and has said that Gram Parsons was responsible for him being chosen for the job (Berline had previously recorded with Parson's band). Producer Glyn Johns suggested that Berline should record his part on the sidewalk outside the studio to add ambience to the number. Sam Cutler, the Rolling Stones' tour manager, performed the car horn at the beginning of the track. Nanette Workman performs backing vocals on this version (although the album sleeve credits actress Nanette Newman). Other sources state that "Country Honk" was recorded at Olympic Studios right after "Honky Tonk Women," with only Berline's fiddle part overdubbed at Elektra Studios; this might be supported by the existence of a bootleg recording that does not contain either the fiddle or Mick Taylor's slide guitar. Richards has repeatedly stated that "Country Honk" is how "Honky Tonk Women" was originally written.

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[annipous]

I love your version of this great song little 6ster. You have an amazing voice! Have you made any recordings of your music?

[Little6ster]

@annipous ah, i'm thinking about it, i'm starting a solo project after a one year group experience that has recently stopped ... but if you want you can follow my little music activities on my facebook page, i can see nothing about you on your channel?... from which country are you coming from? if i am not too curious...

[Djiemiez]

the first seconds i was thinking "WTF?"... but then the lady starts to sing...

oooh yeah! pushed 3 x the replay-button... I LOVE IT!!!!

this is one to share on Facebook... ;-)))

[Little6ster]

@Djiemiez merci la Belgique!

[sirblues]

Wonderful work!! I loved it very much. It inspired me to try with my "cavaquinho" :)

[Little6ster]

@sirblues very happy, hope i can hear it!

[annipous]

@Little6ster Hi again, I have only just set up a 'Youtube' account today, so not a lot of activity yet. However, I am on facebook, so will request for you to be a friend on there and you can view my profile. I have recenty started playing the ukulele, so was very interested in your music when I came across you whilst scrolling through 'Youtube'. Hopefully, chat to you/message you more on fb. I live near Cambridge in the UK.

[ynjptk2]

Yeah! blues spirit!

[Stevecrockerf5]

Way cool.

[deeryker]

brukkin filliant

[Neonitas]

cool . i love your voice :)

[ezekielwahwah]

Two words: yeah baby.