Rolling Stone Live: The Greenhornes Go Acoustic

Cincinnati, Ohio-based garage rockers the Greenhornes recently dropped by the Rolling Stone offices to play an impromptu acoustic set. (So impromptu, in fact, that drummer Patrick Keeler keeps the beat on a cardboard box.) The trio, who've been together in some form since high school, performed a few tracks from their brand new album, titled ****, as well as "Hold Me," a cut from their debut album from 1999 and "The Remains" (a.k.a. "But I Ain't Got You"), a rare EP track that they have never before played in public.

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Song Stories

“Tonight's the Night”

The Shirelles | 1960

The lead cut and title track from this girl group's debut album, "Tonight's the Night" was written by 19-year-old bandmember Shirley Owens, who sings lead, and producer Luther Dixon. The band from Passaic, New Jersey met in high school, first calling themselves the Pequellos. The song's frank thoughts about sexual and emotional surrender was racy for the time, but that didn't stop the Chiffons from cutting a similar version immediately after the original came out. "We were the first female group to write some of our own material," band member Beverly Lee recalls. "We did have some say-so in our writing."

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