How To Use Honky-tonk In A Sentence
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
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She wore hip-hugging tight jeans most of the time, and when she went out to sing at what she called another honky-tonk, she usually tied the bottom of her blouse so there was a little midriff showing.
Lightning Strikes
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And the latest entertainment for the regulars is the new honky-tonk / boogie-woogie piano nights with Karl Mullen on ‘as many Fridays as possible’.
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Nashville's downtown honky-tonks have helped launch the careers of such greats as Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson.
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As someone who has sometimes wondered about her own capacity to drink herself to death, I was also intrigued by the shots of men and women inside honky-tonks and other bars, sometimes at after-show functions.
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The songs have a bit of a barroom sound, and there are a few blues numbers, and even one honky-tonk piano song.
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It manages to stay above the pack thanks to Lovett's laconic drawl and some fine honky-tonk piano.
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
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The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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It is more of a honky-tonk than a restaurant but it is boasting an oyster bar.
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But they sit around like a bunch of jukeboxes in a private honky-tonk, playing the same sad country songs.
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The beautiful vocals and instrumentals make memorable moments in each piece, whether a honky-tonk, a love ballad or simply a swinging tune.
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‘My dad was a great pianist and he was always playing honky-tonk and jazz music, so I grew up with it,’ he said.
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Introducing block rockin 'honky-tonk, New American music for the 21st century, built with love in a little studio, hand crafted, running on inspiration and imagination and duct tape, calling on the spirit of Gram Parsons and Otis Redding and KRS-ONE and Dolly Parton and Nina Simone and Willie Nelson and Missy Elliott and Johnny Cash, to write about what we feel and play what our hearts tell us, because to make it happen is reason enough, and to share it with the world is all the reason you need, because we tell the truth with music and the truth is beautiful.
Boing Boing
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There is music for everyone in this city - traditional jazz, honky-tonk piano, Cajun, zydeco, rhythm and blues, gospel, rock, and country.
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The author vividly recreates the nature of the Phenix City honky-tonks and brothels and the recurrent violence so often directed against the soldiers of Fort Benning, Georgia.
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The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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This makes sense, since we're living in the Age of Irony, and people now seem to be flocking to the city only to transform it into some kind of honky-tonk theme park.
Ambiguity: Mixed Messages and Style Overlap
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But when the foursome kept playing ragtime and honky-tonk music into the early hours the council decided to pull the plug.
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The town is but a decayed, honky-tonk version of the company town, with everything and everybody in it owned by Mr. Potter, the rapacious banker (and the town itself is, of course, Pottersville).
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Hottle said some of Cline's original costumes, still faintly smelling of the cigarette smoke that hung in the 1950s honky-tonk air, are in climate-controlled storage for display in a museum that Celebrating Patsy Cline hopes to eventually open elsewhere in Winchester.
Patsy Cline's House Opens to Public
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It's set in a honky-tonk hall and it's just a very colourful piece that's a great way to finish the show with a ragtime band on stage.
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It's part of the band's strategy to play as many different types of venues as possible, from traditional bluegrass festivals (including the band's own Mountain Song Festival in Brevard) and sit-down venues, to places that used to be called honky-tonks.
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Hightower writes, ‘I've been in Oklahoma honky-tonks, Portland brew pubs, Boston neighborhood bars, Napa Valley wine bars - but I've never been in a place like the O2 Spa Bar in Toronto, Canada.’
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There's no sign officials will try to remove the forbidden music from the honky-tonks where it first emerged.
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To soak up a little of the famous Nashville atmosphere, head for the honky-tonks in Downtown, a row of rough-and-ready bars all playing covers of your favourite country songs.
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I'd hope to see the site redeveloped in a tasteful way and not in a honky-tonk fashion.
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Jeanne Moos tells us about an event that's being called honky-tonk meets the White House wonk.
CNN Transcript May 15, 2007
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As the honky-tonk piano of Elliott Smith's ‘A Distorted Reality Is Now A Necessity To Be Free’ fades into silence, there's one moment from this compilation that stays with you.
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Stuart began offering what he called hillbilly rock,'' an amalgam of energized honky-tonk and rock 'n' roll that he rode well into the '90s.
Boston.com Top Stories
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We're having good times again in old honky-tonk bars/Staying out late again, making love 'neath the stars," he sings.
Album reviews: Willie Nelson, "Country Music" and Merle Haggard, "I Am What I Am"
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At 16, Anneth compulsively sneaks out at night to flirt and drink at honky-tonks, dancing to the latest songs by Elvis, Patsy Cline, and Sam Cooke.
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I suspect he preferred the novelty of being a black man who sang like Elvis in mostly white honky-tonks to being a nearly blind visitor to the king of rock 'n' roll's court.
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In terrific clips, we see the scampish gleam of mischief that shot out of Atwater's steely eyes, giving him the look of a honky-tonk Daniel Craig.
Brad Listi: Politics as Bloodsport: A Conversation with Stefan Forbes, Director of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
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Sending a triumvirate of trained pollsters and media men into the bumpkin's backwoods barrio, he hopes to help the honky-tonk hick win more than his fair share of the illiterate Appalachian vote.
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It's a great honky-tonk, with live Texas-style country music most nights of the week.
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She was playing the harmonica and I was playing the honky-tonk piano.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Premiere: Wild Palms' "To The Lighthouse," Plus A Conversation With Susan Werner
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Here, you can get a taste of Memphis nightlife, where the blues continues to play in classic clubs and honky-tonks.
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Crazy Chomsky-reading nut that he is, he at least deserves some coin for 30 years of honky-tonk labor.
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A night in a honky-tonk ensues, during which Henry and Carol dance the night away as Wayne glowers and fumes on the sidelines; he's actually jealous of this old guy out there with his young wife.
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‘Sin City’ is a traditional honky-tonk duet with Beck and Harris, complete with pedal steel and fiddle.
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The gorgeous honky-tonk ballad would have made Patsy Cline proud, but it has never cracked the Hot 100 on Skid Row.
Music where they live: Singer Mary McBride's unconventional tour
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The music is the best thing about the film, which includes spirituals, work songs, a lullaby, and a great sequence in a saloon with honky-tonk jazz.
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And I would fall asleep lying on the floor of my room with my pillow and my blanket, because he had an old honky-tonk piano that he'd play just all night long.
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The interior of the honky-tonk was no sightlier than the exterior.
Where There's Smoke
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Songs performed by women country singers of the 1960s and 1970s that promoted motherhood, chastity, monogamy, and child rearing outsold country songs about women expressing their sexuality, cheating on their mates, dancing at honky-tonks, or drinking.
A Renegade History of the United States
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I used to do, you know, 260 days a year on the road doing fairs and festivals and honky-tonks and symphony dates and whatever.
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Migrants from the Texas and Oklahoma dustbowls in the 1930s kept their music alive in the honky-tonks and juke joints of California's San Joachim Valley.
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There is music for everyone in this city - traditional jazz, honky-tonk piano, Cajun, zydeco, rhythm and blues, gospel, rock, and country.
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There's a scene at a honky-tonk in which Melanie lays into all her old friends in a way that's vicious and very real.
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The mood in their haunted honky-tonk runs from lugubrious laments to boisterous boogies, drawing in touches of ragtime, country, blues and cabaret.
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So when he takes honky-tonk style, for example, he pushes its virtuosity to the highest degree.
Denk and Ives, Partners in Pianism
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Navy, singing six nights a week in a honky-tonk band, selling cars, building houses, managing a coffee house, and half a dozen other jobs.
An Author's Path To Success: Quitting Your Day Job
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(See: falling into stalker-level love with Jillian after one cowboy-themed date at an empty honky-tonk bar.)
Jake is the new Bachelor. What, was a box of rocks not available? | EW.com
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Adam had gone into the small apartment at the back of the white clapboard house, which was pretty quiet, but up front, the sound of a honky-tonk piano tried to rise above talk and laughter.
