But by the time he was a teenager, he was tearing up local honky-tonks.
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He was often hailed as a master of the telecaster, sort of a honky tonk Eric Clapton.
To capture Mr. Owens's patented sound, Mr. Farrar enlisted two fiddle players for the "Honky Tonk" sessions.
Their shows were a boozy, honky-tonk circus featuring great songwriting, wonderful musical improvisation and, best of all, slapstick comedy.
Mr. Jones may have epitomized honky-tonk, but he also personified glitzy country stardom.
But he sings honky-tonk country classics on his album Come on Back , which he discussed in a 2005 interview with Terry Gross.
In spite of the title and the overtly religious themes, Gospel Time in My Fashion represents honky-tonk on a (slightly) higher plane.
It is a proud history that runs from barn stomping to the great honky tonks to the big stage to the GRAMMYs.
Eventually, that spirit sweeps Jones along, too, and as she serves up a thoughtful instrumental half-chorus built from dancing Floyd Cramer honky-tonk lines.
That's a bit more myth of course, because the Possum was just as capable of recording a daft novelty song or a foot-stomping slab of honky-tonk.
Still a concert venue today, the auditorium is close to the neon strip of Broadway, where honky-tonk bars and stores selling cowboy boots compete for space.
Mr. MYERS: Now if you listen to Lux Lewis' "Honky Tonk Train Blues, " you can hear how boogie-woogie echoed the railroad rhythms of old steam locomotives from the early 20th century.
This disc falls into the latter category, but Lawson expresses his spirituality here via old-fashioned love songs, not honky-tonk love songs, mind you, which usually involve drinking and cheating and possibly firearms.
Plopped on a shoreline noted for its diversity from the honky-tonk boardwalk scene to stately mansions Pier Village and the connected development stand out for their uniformity: street after street of identical four-story condos in tan.
The prospect of honky-tonk entertainment districts like the one in Seaside Heights, once home to the hard-partying Snooki and company of the reality show "Jersey Shore, " is anathema to many in oceanfront neighborhoods where even smaller houses can go for several million dollars.
Reviewer Andy Gill was also positive about the guest appearances of Wyman, who he described as "stolid as ever" on It's Only Rock'n'Roll and Honky Tonk Women, and Taylor, whose "stinging lead lines" on Midnight Rambler combined well with the rest of the band.
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