WHAT SONG are you listening to right now?

"I added something to "Honky Tonk Women",but it was more or less completed when I arrived. I played the country kind of influence on the rock licks between the verses."MICK TAYLOR 1979 (pp338 Rolling With The Stones by Bill Wyman)
same page "In the south of America we went to a ranch and wrote HTW because I was into a cowboy thing. The guitar is in open tuning-G-on that. I learned that particular tuning off Ry Cooder" KEITH,Rolling Stone 8-19-71.

In all fairness it must be said that the main body of riffs in HTW seem to be derived from Ry Cooder. Listening to Cooder's slide work with Captain Beefheart and Taj Mahal reveals many of the double stops incorporated in HTW and many classic Keith songs and riffs. Ry Cooder is instrumental in the development of the Stones. In the defense of Keith it must be said that open G tuning is quite limited -if you tune to open G the first 5 riffs you'll play will sound like Cooder/Richards.