For this week’s Thursday Inspiration prompt, Jim Adams has instructed us to respond to this challenge by either using the prompt word woman. 

Terpsichore (dancing and song) (from the Tarocchi series D: Apollo and the Muses, #13)
Master of the E-Series Tarocchi (Italian, 15th century)before 1467

Honky Tonk Women is a hard driving blues/rock tune written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. The story goes  the song was 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

After it was completed Keith Richards was quoted as saying: “[It’s] one of those tracks that you knew was a number one before you’d finished the mother—er.”

I’ve always been partial to this song because when you play it, you really do drive this baby hard. In addition to that, it’s about hard living women, but nowhere in this song do these women bend to anyone wants or desires except for their own  and whoa be to the man who thinks they can be dominated.

The best anyone who takes up with a Honky Tonk Woman can hope for is that she doesn’t hurt them to bad.

Seriously. I love this song it’s a riot.

Here’s some info about the clip I chose to run with this post:

This video from our Live Outside series features two musicians who first met through the “One Love” song around the world.  Keb’ Mo’ and Mermans Mosengo  reunited during a recent event in Los Angeles and this slow, bluesy version of “Honky Tonk Women” was born. They are accompanied by the California Feetwarmers along with Kevin Moore Jr. on drums. 

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen in memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
cause I just cant seem to drink you off my mind.

Its the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

I laid a divorcee in new york city,
I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady then she covered me with roses,
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.

Its the honky tonk women
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

(yeah!) its the honky tonk women.
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues.

(yeah!) its the honky tonk women.
Gimme, gimme, gimme the honky tonk blues

Woman with a guitar in the garden
Clara Pechansky