Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Milt Herth is the first record I have ever hard by this Hammond organist that had some good ideas, well executed. "Slow Freight" is back in the same old disappointing style, however... Les Brown, back on the label he started out to record for (Decca), finally has a band that is mature enough to attempt things beyond seeing how many high Cs the brass section can play. "Comanche War Dance" is a very creditable version of the Ray Noble tune, and "Walkin' and Swingin'" is an excellent job on the Mary Lou Williams original. Plano...
...Fort Benning, Ga., where new ways and weapons are tested, the soldiers of this new Army acted pretty much as sol diers always have. On their nights off they sought liquor and girls in the dollar-houses and tawdry taverns of staid old Columbus, Ga., or in the honky-tonk and juke joints across the Chattahoochee River in wild, wide-open Phenix City, Ala. The liquor was there, but the girls were gone or going, lining the roadsides in their bright dresses to bum rides to fairer pastures. This seemed strange behavior, for troops by the thousand were assembling...
...Time of Your Life. William Saroyan's tender, boozy picture of life in a waterfront honky-tonk (TIME...