Word: honkytonks
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...sentiments expressed in hillbilly music are far from subtle, but they are forthright ("I've been workin' hard the whole week long/But I'm gonna have some wine, women and song"), candid ("If she's a honkytonk angel, I'm the devil that made her that way"), sincere ("I mean a lot to my Mom and Pop/I just hope I mean somethin...
Commodore issued a characteristic Sutton set (2 sides LP) ranging from the gentle syncopation of four seldom-heard Beiderbecke piano transcriptions to the solid honkytonk bounce of Three Little Words. Columbia followed up a Sutton record issued in its Piano Moods series last fall with Sutton playing eight Fats Waller tunes (2 sides LP) as they had not been played since the late great Negro pianist bubbled through them himself...
...image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with its own morality. Now & then, with a homely detail, it contrives an awesome effect; or with an incongruous touch reveals an unexpected meaning. Everything is most unmystically concrete: Heaven is a Southern fish fry, Babylon is a honkytonk...
Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...
Being in a Cuban prison, sometimes articles about me do not reach my hands until a late date. But I definitely resent your stating that I am a "Belly-Wiggler" and a "HonkyTonk Dancer" [TIME, May 5]. ... Perhaps I haven't worked Carnegie Hall, but I have always taken my dancing seriously and have studied (very hard) the semi-classical dances...