Long Beach may have its honky-tonk side, but it also has an established community of artists who were fed up with the equally honky-tonk but more pretentious Hamptons.
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A bachelorette party rides the Honky Tonk bus in Nashville.
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This Sunday some of those same bars, including Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Rippy's Honky Tonk, and Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock N' Roll Steakhouse were still open—but it wasn't biz as usual.
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Honky-tonk barely resembles pop country's artifice and commercial rock's gloss.
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A scrappy honky-tonk romp or a stomping arena anthem, maybe.
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And yeah, he nailed it, that honky tonk saloon-type playing.
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A bachelorette party rides the Honky Tonk bus down Broadway in Nashville.
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Episodes have the impish glee of honky-tonk with a curious demonic edge.
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" He continues, "In response, Tootsies Orchid Lounge, Rippy's, Honky Tonk Central, Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk & Steakhouse and The Diner will continue to remain open to serve the public until such statewide mandate is issued from the Governor of Tennessee.
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Most don't own cowboy boots and have never set foot in a honky-tonk.
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A different country cover band blasts through the open windows of each honky-tonk.
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The capital of honky-tonk, Nashville is alive with a culture all its own.
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But in honky-tonk and two-stepping, it embodies the best about those terms too.
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And I felt more at home in a honky-tonk than I realized I would.
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Wyoming's Luke Bell plays old-fashioned country music with touches of honky tonk and swing.
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There's some bloody rock 'n' roll, some real heartbreaker honky-tonk stuff, some loose R&B.
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"I don't do drugs," she said, prompting laughs throughout the group assembled for Honky-Tonk Brunch.
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Lonely' is a honky tonk, Brooks & Dunn-type story that's Midland — threatening lame-ass boyfriends everywhere.
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She has been working at a Fort Worth-area honky-tonk bar, according to attorney Stephanie Patten.
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Even "New Orleans," which he's never played live, is Nuggets-worthy garage rock with honky-tonk piano.
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The track appeared on his third album, "Honky Tonk Attitude," and helped the record receive platinum certification.
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Nashville There's more to Music City than bachelorette parties and open-air bars playing honky tonk music.
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I didn't think about how I was the only person that looked like me at the honky-tonk.
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Alan Jackson recorded a straight-up cheesy version for his Honky Tonk Christmas in 1993—that didn't help.
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Passing the open doorway of a hipster honky-tonk bar, I caught a bit of an old song.
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Behind him, a boot-stomp beat and a throbbing guitar anchor the song firmly to the honky-tonk.
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Environmentalists are worried that if the plan materializes it will not just be honky-tonk, but ecologically destructive.
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The 62-year-old is also wearing a sequined white suit while singing at a good old-fashioned honky tonk.
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The only problem is that no one is buying her latest batch of goods: honky-tonk country western prairie dresses.
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Luke: It has a pump organ, a honky tonk piano...Nastja: And a dead cat called Brian on the wall.
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Their song "Smokey Mountain Memories" became a Top 40 country hit for the honky-tonk singer Mel Street in 1975.
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And I liked Rachel Chavkin's nightmare vision of a world divided — a honky-tonk on the edge of an abyss.
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Flying in the face of these privations is Bourbon Brunch & Beer, an American-style honky-tonk that opened in September.
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For live music, Witherspoon recommends Roberts Western World, which she calls "a true Honky Tonk," or the no-frills Station Inn.
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But his goal in running Robert's embodies the zealous preservation traditional country, rockabilly and honky-tonk culture has on Lower Broadway.
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Personal Journeys The conversion took place on Honky-Tonk Row, my baptism a glaze of midsummer Tennessee sweat anointing my forehead.
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The news comes on the heels of Kid's drunken rant about Oprah last week at his Honky Tonk bar in Nashville.
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And you go to a honky-tonk bar and you're sitting there getting a drink and people are swinging each other around.
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He was a defense attorney, constructing alibis, what abouts, and noble motivations for everyone from Rick Rude to the Honky Tonk Man.
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The quartet sang "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," Kitty Wells' signature song that Lynn put on a 1993 album.
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There are countless venues and rich histories from Tejano music and non-conformist country to honky-tonk, cosmic cowboy and psych rock.
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" John Lingan is the author of "Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk.
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On a recent Tuesday night in Williamsburg, the muffled sounds of live honky-tonk rumbled from Skinny Dennis, a pleasantly boisterous barrelhouse.
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The band has a steel guitarist, Greg Leisz, who is often the man pop singers call on when they want honky-tonk attributes.
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"Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" I knew Mulder's subconscious was a scary place, but man, it was more frightening than I could ever have imagined.
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More recently, he has focused on intensely dramatic themes, ranging from operatic productions to the honky-tonk spectacle of New York's Times Square.
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The Honky Tonk Woman calls itself a bar for people from all walks of life, hosting pig roasts, NASCAR parties and biker rallies.
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Escovedo and Rankin, who is forty-six, met in 83, at the Continental Club, a popular honky-tonk on South Congress, in Austin.
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THE PLAYLIST One night, a gruff, inky-armed bartender straight out of Nirvana's "Teen Spirit" video played a mix of twangy honky-tonk.
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Soon after, they began their 33-year journey as the rockabilly-loving, sex-obsessed, B-horror-fanatic honky tonk punk group The Cramps.
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His first single for Excello as a leader was "I'm Gonna Leave You Baby," a honky-tonk number released in the mid-1950s.
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Diffie had, in other words, a "Honky Tonk Attitude," to borrow a title and a vibe from one of his toe-tapping hits.
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The White Horse: A hipster honky-tonk that keeps the Austin dream alive with free two-step lessons and live music every night.
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Broadway Street in Nashville, Tennessee, is filled with lit-up honky-tonk bars perfect for tourists looking to have a toe-tapping, rowdy night.
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Trading out her tiara for a veiled cowboy hat and accessorizing with a pink bachelorette sash, Camp and her crew hit the honky-tonk.
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Sensing the waitress's displeasure, the singer-songwriter known for her lusty honky-tonk sound briefly contemplated ordering a meal for the sake of appearances.
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He grew up listening to honky-tonk on the family radio and, with some other local boys, formed his first band, the Blue Cats.
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Had that not been the case, "I might have just performed 'Honky Tonk Women,' waved to the crowd and made my exit," he says.
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The area is still dirt-poor, particularly once you get away from the honky-tonk tourist attractions and water parks surrounding the Wisconsin Dells.
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Waylon Jennings' breakthrough "Outlaw country" album Honky Tonk Heroes, arguably one of the best country albums ever recorded, is almost entirely written by Shaver.
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The album is far more country-inflected than her previous albums, with honky tonk, twanging guitars, and Dolly Parton herself tapping in as backup.
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A listen to any of the honky-tonk rippers and heartsick ballads below will make that clear enough (that Merle Haggard cover doesn't hurt, either).
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When Strait first emerged, he was acclaimed as "the honky-tonk Frank Sinatra," a designation that fits him even better now than it did then.
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At Coachella, you have the inclusive techno ecstasy of the Yuma dance tent; at Stagecoach, it becomes the anything-goes hoedown of the Honky Tonk.
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That said, the bartenders bust hump, and the music, leaning hard on the honky-tonk vibe without ever feeling creaky, is rock-solid every night.
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Having secured both a talented doctor and a surgery date, we decided to celebrate with drinks and live music at a honky-tonk bar downtown.
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This is the home to the popular honky tonk, a term used to describe both the bar and the style of country music played within.
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" It's an old-fashioned honky-tonk shuffle built around one of Ms. Lynn's classic wordplay nuggets: "She's got everything it takes/To take everything you've got.
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Post Malone was feeling the honky-tonk vibes in Nashville ... so much so he hopped onstage and busted out some old-school Elvis for the crowd!
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Parton herself stars alongside Hough in the "Jolene" episode as a character named Babe, Jolene's mentor and the proud owner of local honky-tonk Baby Blues.
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She'd paid her dues singing four-hour sets at Tootsie's, a Lower Broadway honky-tonk, and she was beginning to get noticed in the music community.
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Lizvfer and the Tree play sexed-out honky tonk covers, reconfigured with drum machines, humming synths, and enough distortion to make you forget the songs' origins.
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" It's a honky-tonk bounce that's more jovial than angry, observing, "If it's a bunch of clowns you voted in/Election Day is comin' round again.
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In Nashville, you can hear the song wafting from the open door of any honky-tonk on Lower Broad: Johnny Cash singing about love, about desire.
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The Bakersfield sound clung tenaciously to country's most twangy, sinewy elements — bluegrass, Western swing, honky-tonk, rockabilly — to accompany lean, down-to-earth, working-class storytelling.
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The record, on which Mr. Lowe's chipper vocals were accompanied by a tinkling honky-tonk piano, reached No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1956.
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And then you go around back and there's a little peep show inside his head and it's George Jones dancing onstage in a weird haunted honky-tonk.
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Established in 19993 by the late Tootsie Bess, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge—distinguished by its trademark purple-painted brick façade—is, perhaps, the world's most famous honky-tonk.
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A hairstylist from Northern California, where Pardi grew up, Duncan traveled to Denver to meet Pardi and see his show at famed honky-tonk the Grizzly Rose.
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"Push the Button," the honky-tonk number in which Shug demonstrates the art of pleasing a partner in bed, is now the raging showstopper it should be.
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Kid Rock's Nashville honky tonk says it will NOT shut down over coronavirus ... despite the city's orders ... and Kid's joint ain't alone in taking this defiant stand.
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With a harmless layer of humdrum and honky-tonk as the mortar between them, it's both a busy, bawdy working-class port and a genteel beach resort.
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His music is astronomically popular and ubiquitous, and sounds like it could belong everywhere: a hip-hop club, a honky-tonk, a rock concert, a poolside bar.
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Here are some choice sleepers—ranging from decadent dance-jams to cabaret-glam to honky-tonk—that kept us (happily) up all night during the last twelve months.
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Before Loretta Lynn cut her first record, "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl," in 1960, she split her time cleaning houses and taking care of her four young kids.
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Fox 4 News in Dallas obtained an exclusive photograph showing Couch behind the bar, serving drinks at the Honky Tonk Woman Saloon in Azle, a Fort Worth suburb.
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Her full-tilt honky-tonk style, at odds with the country-pop Nashville sound, kept her struggling for a hit in the late '5s and early '60s, however.
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Known as the Nautical Mile, this stretch of honky-tonk bars, live music venues and no-frills seafood houses long ago embraced boardwalk Americana and never let go.
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Mr. Richards put cunning rhythmic shifts in the skeletal, syncopated doublestops of "Honky Tonk Women," and his lead in "Sympathy for the Devil" stabbed like a rusted switchblade.
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All photos by Seher Sikander Sitting across from me in a honky-tonk, hands folded, frozen coffee unsipped, dark folk muse Marissa Nadler is talking about country music.
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While Latin music is in Wednesday's spotlight, you'll get a chance to hear and dance to honky-tonk, jump blues and classic swing and more throughout the summer.
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The "honky-tonk" bands that play the White Horse are mostly electric country in the outlaw tradition of Texas's favorite son, Willie Nelson, and the likes of Merle Haggard.
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Sam: We read that "Honky Tonk Women" had been written just outside of São Paulo, so we wanted to tell that story and relive that moment in some way.
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The piece begins in trickster style, with the soloist playing a funky ostinato modelled on Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme and a detuned honky-tonk piano adding offbeat accents.
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Others milled around nibbling burritos and tortilla chips from the Fort Greene cantina Pequeña, brought in to ensure that the "brunch" in Honky Tonk Brunch included more than booze.
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JUST IN: Several bars on Lower Broadway, including popular Tootsies, Honky Tonk Central, Kid Rock's bar, will remain OPEN after Nashville mayor asked them to close over #COVID19 pic.twitter.
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Wild Spirits had closed, and Lee was running security at Hogs & Heifers, a notorious honky tonk where he spent his shifts 86ing people who'd had too much to drink.
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Among the series of photography books she published were "Honky-Tonk Heroes: A Photo Album of Country Music" (1975) and "Gone Country: Portraits of Country Music's New Stars" (1997).
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But the young Haggard also learned early on that he had a talent for music and found his idol in country singer Lefty Frizzell, whose honky-tonk style he imitated.
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The honky-tonk girl's thick, honeyed Kentucky drawl makes you want to lean in closer to catch every word, especially when she graces you with a grin, or a giggle.
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The 16-year-old singer — who has become known for her classic honky-tonk sound and yodeling talents — was crowned the winner of season 15 of The Voice on Tuesday.
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He told reporters at the media event, held at Ole Red, his downtown Nashville restaurant and honky-tonk, that he'd even stopped saving the awards show date on his calendar.
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TENNESSEE: Get your honky-tonk on in Nashville or cook up some Southern barbecue in your own backyard — whatever you choose, your Tennessee date is sure to be a blast.
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The first second or two I was there, I went to this big honky tonk called Coldwater in Lubbock ,and Joe Ely was playing and I met all those guys.
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The honky tonk bar is one of the last old school spots in the city that's still living by the "Keep Austin Weird" slogan with the staff to prove it.
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" Glitter & Sawdust is gorgeous Nashville pop with a honky tonk heart, from the hillbilly jam "Winchester's Gun" to a phenomenal cover of Little Big Town's 2015 pot-stirrer "Girl Crush.
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It's more than 50 years old and looks every bit of the roadhouse honky tonk it began as (they may even be playing it up a bit, for the tourists).
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It's a genre-hybrid exercise — a hip-hop song with country-themed subject matter, partly rapped and partly sung in an exaggerated honky-tonk accent — and also a comedy sketch.
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The whole gang gets little squirters of the stuff, including Olivia who needs the break at this point, and they all head down to the local honky tonk to find her.
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"Moving On," the first volume, a sprawling 794-page chronicle and sociological study of urban life, incongruously captures both Houston's honky-tonk rodeo milieu and the high-learning culture of Rice.
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Iggy wound up at the Lone Star, a Texas-themed honky-tonk, in the 1970s after Mr. Wade had shown it at an exhibition in western New York, near Niagara Falls.
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Famous names and local sensations mingle on this exhaustive, chronological collection of fiddle and banjo breakdowns, swinging honky-tonk, torch-y ballads and countrified R&B along with homey radio banter.
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With signature moves like the El Kabong and Shake, Rattle and Roll ... The Honky Tonk Man (real name Roy Wayne Farris) shot to fame as an Elvis-like wrestler in the WWF.
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His prospects may have improved with the release, in 1980, of "Urban Cowboy," in which John Travolta and Debra Winger do battle with a mechanical bull in a honky-tonk called Gilley's.
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Though at times eclipsed by his fondness for drollery, Mr. Tillis's early artistic reputation rested on the decidedly sober material he wrote for honky-tonk singers like Mr. Pierce and Ray Price.
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The Little Longhorn Saloon, known as "Ginny's," up on Burnet Road, is also home to plenty of honky-tonk, when it's not hosting Chicken Shit Bingo (which is exactly what it sounds like).
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Austin doesn't actually have a lot of big-time dance halls (its closest Gilley's analogues, Midnight Rodeo and Dallas Nightclub, closed some time back); instead there's a spread of small honky-tonk joints.
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Crime Let's make a list of the dubious delights that await you in HONKY TONK SAMURAI (Mulholland, $26), the latest outing for Joe R. Lansdale's perpetual bad boys, Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.
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"I'm trying to figure out what's my place to speak out on these issues," Gale said after the show at Mama Tried, a Honky Tonk bar just a couple blocks up from Canton.
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Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane stayed here when Livingston was still a Wild West honky-tonk town; the film director Sam Peckinpah lived on the third floor in the late 1970s and '80s.
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We broke the story ... Kid Rock went off on Oprah and Joy at his Honky Tonk bar in Nashville last week, and many thought his rant got racist despite his insistence it wasn't.
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And if you think you know country music through a passing acquaintance with honky-tonk bars and whatever comes up on the radio during long drives, you'll quickly realize what you've been missing.
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After his time in the United States, Mr. Scott opened his first bar, Shady Pines, and stocked it with whiskey, beer and bowls of unshelled peanuts, and established a western, honky-tonk atmosphere.
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Both are beloved for their willingness to buck trends (and any chance of mainstream success) and deftly play country music that transports listeners anywhere — even in Williamsburg — to an old-fashioned honky-tonk.
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Pardi and Duncan have an important date coming up a week before Christmas when he plays the Grizzly Rose, the Denver honky-tonk where they first met about a year and a half ago.
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Fast-paced and taut, its standard "dumb teens versus terrifying rednecks" fare offers modern political overtones when a band gig in a remote northwestern honky-tonk becomes a nightmare of drug-fueled white supremacy.
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Not so the music, directed by Rob Fisher and played by a luxurious 29-piece orchestra to make the best possible case for this strange heaven-meets-honky-tonk mélange of a Rodgers score.
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"The increase in bachelorette parties became evident about four years ago," said Jeff Eslick, the media manager for Tootsie's Entertainment, which owns popular spots in Nashville like Honky Tonk Central and Tootsie's Orchid Lounge.
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The jukebox is already in fine form, churning out Tejano, old-school Texas honky-tonk, swamp pop and funky Chicago soul, much of it courtesy of that morning's impromptu DJ: local music hero Nick Gaitan.
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"Sallisaw Blue," which opens "Big Bad Luv," is a rollicking, honky-tonk song, heavy on piano and harmonica; it feels destined for roadhouse jukeboxes, where it will play in perpetuity while patrons order more beers.
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His new album, "For Better, or Worse," dips into the repertoires of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb, George Jones and Waylon Jennings, among others, with folky, parlor-scale arrangements that hint at honky-tonk and rockabilly.
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After the listening session ended, many of the guests piled into buses and ended up at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar, a supersized, taxidermy-filled honky-tonk in downtown Jackson, 45 minutes to the southwest.
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He not only lives in Nashville, but he also owns the very popular joint, Nashville Underground ... a massive 4-level joint and bar just blocks away from the arena and on the famous Honky Tonk Highway.
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Anna Leonowens (with a new King in Daniel Dae Kim), while Heather Headley is now inhabiting the sinuous skin of the honky-tonk diva Shug Avery in "The Color Purple," a Tony front-runner this year.
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Born in Kentucky, Lynn carved a career in the country music scene with her down-home twangy voice, singing hits such as 1960's "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" and "Coal Miner's Daughter," released in 1970.
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Like the honky-tonk in "The Blues Brothers" that had "both kinds" of music, "country and western," it offered a rightist sampler running from Sean Hannity's party-loyal Republicanism to Bill O'Reilly's pugnacious East Coast populism.
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No matter: We grabbed a $4 fried bologna sandwich (imagine a BLT — now imagine it twice as salty) and a couple of $4.25 Miller Lites at the honky-tonk while we listened to the aforementioned band.
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Defying the conventions of the Nashville musical establishment, Mr. Haggard was an architect of the twangy Bakersfield sound, a guitar-driven blend of blues, jazz, pop and honky-tonk that traced its roots to Bakersfield, Calif.
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Though most of its characters spent their often unhappy existences in the same Illinois backwater, they are fluent in the far-flung vernaculars of Appalachian ballads, Southern gospel, Tennessee bluegrass and even New Orleans honky-tonk.
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The tracks, produced by Teddy Thompson, lean toward waltzes and understated honky-tonk, modest acoustic guitars and trickles of piano; even the pushiest two songs are country takes on 1960s girl-group pop, with just enough tambourine.
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On the Opry House stage, Janson recalled his first days in Nashville playing four-hour shifts at Tootsie's, the downtown honky-tonk that shares an alley with the legendary Ryman, which is still the Opry's occasional home.
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Known as the "Poet of the Common Man," the Country Music Hall of Famer was influential in creating, along with Buck Owens, the Bakersfield sound — characterized by more raw, honky-tonk influenced instruments and gritty lyrical themes.
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A blend of Nashville honky tonk, plaintive acoustic folk, and Appalachian bluegrass, the album is populated with the tales of the types of the stubborn, hard living, lapsing Christians Childers has grown up around all his life.
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To hear him tell it, he's been chewed up and spat out by every label in Nashville, ultimately recording a batch of obscene honky-tonk and Southern rock numbers, the lyrics of each and every one unprintable.
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After singing Martina McBride's "A Broken Wing" every day — sometimes two and three times — during her honky-tonk days, Hammack got to perform the song for McBride in August during an ACM Honors tribute at Ryman Auditorium.
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The owner, Bryan Villanti, has taken over the space formerly home to Tony's Asian Fusion, and the renovation of this small room now includes handsome paneled walls of reclaimed wood, matched with a more honky-tonk motif.
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By now, invoking the name of country music's most hallowed son, Hank Williams, is a surefire way to either establish your honky-tonk bonafides (if you're good), or splatter egg all over your face (if you're not).
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As Mr. Als points out, she considered the neighborhood "honky-tonk" — and so with her lover, the musician José Santiago Negrón, she moved into the first of several railroad apartments in Spanish Harlem, just off Central Park.
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Some think they don't have what it takes, that their nudie-suit clad album cover and glossed up honky-tonk songs are doing just as much damage to the genre as artists like Kip Moore or Luke Bryan.
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Cash's band was itself something of an anomaly in the country scene, playing a rockabilly-influenced variation on country music that wasn't quite the popular Western swing of the 1940s or the honky-tonk of the early '50s.
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Abandoning the previous album's sound completely, he switched to a restless, noisy, hour-long assortment that melded genres (metal, hip-hop, honky tonk, classical) and had to in some part lay the groundwork for Beck's impending masterpiece Odelay.
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Born in Kentucky, she carved a career in the country music scene with her down-home twangy voice, writing and singing hits such as 1960's "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl" and "Coal Miner's Daughter," released in 1970.
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Jean Shepard, a mainstay of the Grand Ole Opry whose feisty honky-tonk songs of the 1950s and '60s paved the way for the brash, assertive style of singers like Loretta Lynn, died on Sunday in Gallatin, Tenn.
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Loretta Lynn featuring Elvis Costello "Everything It Takes" (Sony Legacy) The wordplay, the sighing pedal-steel guitar and Ms. Lynn's deep twang reach back to classic honky-tonk, in a new song pulled from her old notebooks. 18.
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There are a lot of places for two-stepping in Austin, but Broken Spoke is still the premier honky-tonk bar in the city, courting an audience since 1964 with its dance floor, western decor, and chicken fried steak.
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It falls somewhere between a honky-tonk bar and a dive bar, and it's the last bastion of proper old-school live music in the city—a nice little escape where you can listen to country and two-step.
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It was in the way his keyboard playing took turns steering the Allman Brothers Band and creating its backdrop: the Hammond organ that could be greasy or celestial, the piano that summoned hymns, honky-tonk, boogie-woogie and jazz.
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Once, at the end of a performance in Montreal of the Alban Berg opera "Wozzeck," he recalled, a musician's cellphone played a honky-tonk tune just as the opera was ending with a boy dancing with a hobby horse.
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Katie Quackenbush, who describes herself as a honky-tonk rock 'n' roll singer from Texas, was in her car with a female passenger when she got into a confrontation with Gerald Melton near Music Row in Nashville on Aug. 26.
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And, oh yeah—Willie Nelson, who Price calls "a living saint," duets with her on somber, honky tonk weeper "Learning to Lose," one of the most stirring tracks on her new record, All American Made, which releases via Third Man Records.
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In between the flashes of honky-tonk energy on Angelica Rockne's forthcoming debut, Queen of San Antonio—when the singer-songwriter dips back into the country canon and pulls out dive-bar dust-ups and cosmic clutter—there are torch songs.
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The chaos of the gathering made it a perfect fit for downtown Nashville, crowded with tourist-baiting honky-tonk bars, its roadways cluttered with tractors hauling party buses packed with drunk people decked out in Halloween costumes and cowboy hats.
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Leslie Tom is no angel, honky-tonk or otherwise, but I daresay that the power of her voice is most apparent when she slows things down, tones down the boot-scoot, and dips deep into her own wells of sorrow.
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Acts like Post Malone—who channels the same "woke honky tonk" energy and whose beerbongs & bentleys was one of the most streamed albums of 2018—have made tons of money by making music packed with hooks for different listener demographics.
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Book the Omni Nashville starting at $269 per nightOmni Nashville is just two blocks from Broadway, where many of the famous honky-tonk bars can be found, and the Country Music Hall of Fame is directly accessible from inside the hotel.
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Relaxing into the second part with a lulling motif for bassoon and strings — you might think of Ravel — "Must the Devil" troubles the piano's serenity with a sustained low tremble in the basses, and a disturbing plunk of honky-tonk.
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Grande's "Thank U, Next" (Republic) is No. 3 in its eighth week on the chart, owing largely to another 63 million streams, while George Strait's "Honky Tonk Time Machine" is No. 4, with 44,000 in sales and 7 million streams.
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Restaurateur Steve Smith -- who co-owns Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk & Steakhouse -- put out a blistering response Sunday to Nashville Mayor John Cooper's recent directive that all bars in town close up, and restaurants cut their capacity in half.
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Singing in a warm, undulating baritone, he made marital fidelity not just appealing but sexy — as exciting, in its way, as the themes of cheating and running around that defined the classic honky-tonk music of the 1950s and '21969s.
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Listen to This With a masterful blend of allegorical lyrics and honky-tonk hooks, the artist and musician Terry Allen has been steadily solidifying his stature as a reigning deity of a certain kind of country music since the mid-70s.
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" Shelton opened up even more about the show's past, present and future in a wide-ranging Q&A session, held Thursday at his Ole Red restaurant and honky-tonk: The role he hates the most: "Eliminating people from the show.
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Entitled "Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?" it points to her position as a charismatic and cheeky soloist with a sense of fire—a bass guitar and a "honky-tonk" piano will complement Ms Wang—as well as her skill.
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He taught himself the piano as a child on the old instrument of a white family in his neighborhood, and he left home in his early teens to become a traveling musician on the honky tonk and brothel circuit lining the Mississippi River.
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After nearly a dozen of them, he's better loved than paid, and best (but not well enough) known not only for his guitar wizardry and his urbane honky-tonk wit but for his crafty country songs and his wicked sendups of such songs.
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"The Back Door," sung in French as "La Porte d'en Arriere," is a Cajun transformation of Williams's "Honky Tonk Blues," with Mr. Menard's lyrics about a man who sneaks back home through the back door after a long night drinking at honky-tonks.
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" It's played for comedy in "Egg & Daughter Nite, Lincoln Nebraska, 1967 (Crazy Bone)," with honky-tonk piano rippling behind a closing verse about dementia and deterioration in a nursing home, while "In a local cemetery/They already got your name carved out in stone.
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When he was still a bartender at Hole in the Wall, a mainstay of the "Drag," a once-hip commercial district that's been overtaken by chains in the past decade, O'Donnell knew that when he opened his own place, honky-tonk would be the focus.
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"Lovely Rita" lacks its solo at this early juncture—Martin would complete the song by playing a honky-tonk piano riff a month later on March 21—but the earnestly strummed acoustic guitars coupled with McCartney's minor key piano vamp are present on the outro.
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And that was just Act I of Miley Cyrus' three-act extravaganza, thrown for about 150 super-fans who packed into the third floor of Nashville's most iconic downtown honky-tonk, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, on Friday night to celebrate the release of Younger Now.
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Neel moved to Spanish Harlem in 1938 with her lover, musician José Santiago Negrón, to get away from a rarefied, "honky-tonk" clique of other artists in Greenwich Village and closer to the diversity of experience, background, and expression that was, after all, her subject.
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Now known as America's bachelorette party capital, or the Honky-Tonk Highway (as it's been branded), Lower Broad has so much foot traffic from pedal taverns and revelers hopping between celebrity-themed event spaces, street parking on the strip is a thing of the past.
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We've learned Ethan Couch's mom is slinging drinks at the Honky Tonk Woman Saloon in Azle, TX. Tonya's telling her customers the Saloon gig was a lifesaver because no one wanted to hire her after she and Ethan were captured in Mexico last year.
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The country rocker went on a wild tirade last week at his own Honky Tonk bar in Nashville -- which apparently overserved their boss, 'cause the man was clearly intoxicated as he blasted O from the stage ... saying, "F*** Oprah!" and other vulgarities we won't repeat.
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In the 1970s Mr. Ax gave a live performance of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata in a WQXR studio on what sounded like a honky-tonk piano, but even on my tinny little radio, the glorious melody of the finale chimed out as if on bells.
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Mr. Nichols's version is pure George Strait, coating the song with a thick slather of honky-tonk sincerity — it is cheeky and harmless, more a symbol of the ubiquity of hip-hop nostalgia than of country music's steady inching toward hip-hop production values.
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The musician was captured on the stage at the Big A-- Honky Tonk Rock N&apos Roll Steakhouse, which he owns, in a video posted by TMZ, where he insults Winfrey, in addition to and "The View" host Joy Behar and Kathie Lee Gifford.
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Honky-tonk music and two-step dancing have long been a thing in Austin—and all over Texas, really—but around the turn of this decade, young people, specifically the hip, alternative young people who "keep Austin weird," began reconnecting with this distinct part of Texas heritage.
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When he wasn't playing his hits, he played covers of other popular songs (a particularly on-point rendition of the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman" still sticks out in my mind.) There was never one of those dreaded "I'd like to workshop some new material" moments.
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Westworld's use of "No Surprises" in its second episode is much more low-key, with the self-playing honky-tonk piano in the park's saloon plinking out the signature riff in the background as the existential musings and malfunctions of androids play out on the main stage.
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She cued up a selection of instrumentals that ran the absurd gamut from Eiffel 27's "Blue" and Drowning Pool's "Bodies" to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polkadot Bikini," all while sing-songing moves nonstop (everything from honky tonk to show tunes is fair game, I learned).
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Tyler Childers: Purgatory (Hickman Holler) This intense, narrow, flawlessly crafted retro-nuevo honky-tonk album gains decisive poetry from both Childers's lean, resonant East Kentucky drawl and his failure to shake his fundamentalist upbringing—purgatory, in case you didn't get the message, is a Romanist notion.
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He drew on that upbringing in his fiction, and also revisited it in "Last Mountain Dancer: Hard-Earned Lessons in Love, Loss, and Honky-Tonk Outlaw Life" (2004), for which he returned to the state on a sabbatical to write about some of its characters and oddities.
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I've taken a lot of interviewees to the Whiskey—from honky tonk queens to Chinese throat singers—but Yellow Eyes is the first black metal band I've beckoned down into the cool, dark basement bar across the street from VICE's now-former office in Williamsburg, an astronomically hip neighborhood in Brooklyn.
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It starts with a smash – heavy electric lead guitar, bleached-out vocals, classic rock rhythm guitars – it ends with "Don't Give a Damn," a honky tonk hit reminiscent of Madman Across the Water-era Elton John and the Rolling Stones' oft-repeated advice that you can't always get what you want.
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It starts with a smash—heavy electric lead guitar, bleached-out vocals, classic rock rhythm guitars—it ends with "Don't Give a Damn," a honky tonk hit reminiscent of Madman Across the Water-era Elton John and the Rolling Stones' oft-repeated advice that you can't always get what you want.
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NATE CHINEN LORETTA LYNN: 'WHITE CHRISTMAS BLUE' Legacy; CD, $10.29; MP3, $10.99 The manger isn't far from the honky-tonk on Loretta Lynn's Christmas collection, which has songs from the trove of recordings she began making in the 2000s with Johnny Cash's son, John Carter Cash, at the Cash Cabin Studio.
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This is the kind of modern-but-not country that artists like Margo Price, Angaleena Presley, and Whitey Morgan peddle—born in a honky-tonk, aged in a bourbon barrel, steeped in history, but driven by fresh ideas and the drive to succeed in a world far removed from the outlaw years.
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When she mentioned to her new friend that she wanted to try two-stepping even though she didn't yet own cowboy boots, her friend suggested that together they check out the Love Leighs, a roots band with two ukuleles, who were playing the White Horse, a honky-tonk on Austin's east side.
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It's edifying and fun, an ideal excuse, if you should need one, to grab the kids and head for the beach — and it also happens to illustrate the difference architecture makes, in this case to residents in one of the city's most underserved communities and to a neighborhood of honky-tonk amusement parks and oceanfront.
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Another gloomy, even bitter, study in Americana, its most distinctive bit of orchestration is a part for honky-tonk piano (ideally a detuned upright, but on Thursday conjured electronically, and far too weakly) that evokes the saloons — and, implicitly, the chauvinistic illusions — of Hollywood westerns, while coming across as a devilish shadow of the "real" solo piano.
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But there were holdouts over the weekend: In Washington, the Hill Restaurant Group, which owns Hawk 'n' Dove, Lola's and others, said it would defy a mayoral directive to shut down, as did Steve Smith, the owner of several popular nightspots like Tootsie's Orchid Lounge and Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Steakhouse in Nashville, Tenn.
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What you may not have realized at the time, though, was how four different, well-known pieces of music were weaved together to create a not inexpensive backdrop to that sequence — "Somethin' Bad" by Miranda Lambert (featuring Carrie Underwood), "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus, "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" by Trace Adkins and "Misery Is the River of the World" by Tom Waits.
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The video for the all-star "Forever Country" mash-up opens on a green field, panning to sun-dappled woods and a glimpse of Nashville's Honky Tonk strip before Brad Paisley appears in a roadside café, singing the words of a classic: "Almost heaven, West Virginia…" For Paisley, one of the 30 acts lending talent to "Forever Country," the project was personal.
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"Whitehouse Road" and "Honky Tonk Flame" both provide different tellings of the same story—the story of someone who, for better or for worse, can't for the life of him give up on a dream—while "Feathered Indians" and "Lady May" are heartbreaking and candid depictions of the difficulty of balancing earthly vices with otherworldly experiences (in this case, absolute love).
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After getting his start holding down the low end on upright bass for ska-punk-Latin heroes Los Skarnales (at their peak, the best bar band in Texas), Gaitan moved on to front his own band (Nick Gaitan and the Umbrella Man), when not thumping that bull fiddle for Nikki Hill after years of service doing the same for Texas honky-tonk god Billy Joe Shaver.
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His deep, soulful croon and hard-edged twang went on to grace 38 chart-topping hits and many, many albums (including a few Grammy winners), and while the Bakersfield sound send shockwaves through the country music industry when it first debuted, that innovative sonic stew of gritty country, shit-kicking honky-tonk, soulful jazz, and heartfelt blues he stirred up with his Fender Telecaster has yet to be precisely replicated.
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" The resulting performance of "Jolly Good Honky Tonk in the U.K." came complete with the singers dressed in iconic British looks – Bentley, 40, as Sherlock Holmes and Bryan, 39, as a Queen's Guard, while Corden was dressed in a King George ensemble – and singing lyrics like: "Get up in the mornin' grab a cup of tea / Turn on the telly, watch the BBC / Prime Minister Cameron's gettin' me down / Can't go to the dentist, cause there ain't one around.
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Rolling Stones set list: "Start Me Up""You Got Me Rocking""Out of Control""Ride 'Em on Down" (Jimmy Reed cover)"Mixed Emotions""Wild Horses""It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (but I Like It)""Come Together" (Beatles cover)"Tumbling Dice""Honky Tonk Women""Slipping Away""Little T&A""Midnight Rambler""Miss You""Gimme Shelter""Sympathy for the Devil""Brown Sugar""Jumpin' Jack Flash" Encore:"You Can't Always Get What You Want""(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Follow Jeff Weiss on Twitter.
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Alongside his spiritual brother Cody Jinks, Whitey Morgan has staked his claim on the rough and tumble side of the country line, and it's working out rather well; his hell-raising honky-tonk tunes like the swaggering "Just Got Paid" and more introspective, whiskey-soaked ballads like the somber working man's lament "What Am I Supposed to Do" channel country's twin sacred cows of bourbon and the blues, and as someone raised up both (plus the work of classic barroom troubadours), I couldn't be happier about it.
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