Tonight’s mystery artists are rock and rollers to the core yet at one time they wrote a to the bone country song that wound up on one of their albums and there is a twist, they also revamped the song to be rock and roll classic and recorded the new version a different album. Can you guess the band or song??

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The song was written back in 1969 and was inspired while on holiday in Brazil. Whose holiday you ask? That would be the likes of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger. The song in question is Honky Tonk Woman. According to Wikipedia The Stones initially recorded the track called "Country Honk", in London in early March 1969. Brian Jones was present during these sessions and may have played on the first handful of takes and demos. It was his last recording session with the band However when Mick Taylor heard the song he heard something quite different. The song was transformed into the familiar electric, riff-based hit single "Honky Tonk Women" Keith Richards is quoted from an interview with 'Crawdaddy Magazine' “Country Honk was originally written as a real Hank Williams 1930s country song and it got turned into this other thing by Mick Taylor”. Way to go Mick. Country Honk was recorded on ‘Let It Bleed’

Interesting to hear them side by side.

We'll start with first one.

And now tonight's featured song.

 

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