Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Honky Tonk...
...Honky Tonk...
...commission. The album should have been done live and as a two record set. One can understand Marmaduke's desire to get some royalties by putting ten songs on an album (all his own) but it was a real sin for them not to include "The Weight" and "Honky Tonk Women". In pre-album fantasies, I envisioned one side each of "Dirty Business", "The Weight", and "Honky Tonk". There is no dispute among Dead freaks that the Riders do their best on these three numbers...
Their "Honky Tonk" is, believe it or not, more exciting and clearer than the Stones' live version. While the Stones' studio "Honky Tonk" is sharp and clean and hard (especially Richard's guitar), the track on "Ya-Yas" is notable chiefly for its all-around muddiness. It's not so with the New Riders--Garcia plays the pedal steel with a wicked clarity that sends every audience I've ever seen into paroxysmic ecstasy. Their version of "The Weight" is similarly superb...
...five he discovered music. The town's most famous honky-tonk dance place, Funky Butt Hall, used to send its band-including Cornettist Buddy Bolden, Trumpeters Bunk Johnson and Joe ("King") Oliver-out on the street to drum up business. Armstrong hung around to listen. By the time he was twelve, he was strolling through the Storyville red-light district singing tenor in a boys' quartet. Taunted one day by a neighborhood tough, he swiped a revolver and charged down Rampart Street, firing shots into the air. He was caught and shipped off to the Colored Waifs...