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.
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.
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.
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.
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