Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cheers, hoisting half-empty Lone Star beers toward the stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind. By now the audience is standing on chairs, whooping, waving Stetsons and screaming for more. The scene is good-time Texas honky-tonk anarchy. It is Saturday night at the Austin Opry House...
DIED. Ethel Waters, 80, spellbinding black honky-tonk singer who became a dramatic star on Broadway; of heart disease; in Chatsworth, Calif. Born out of wedlock in abject poverty and farmed out to a succession of relatives, Waters was working as a chambermaid for $3.50 a week when she won first prize at an amateur night. She went on to sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton...
Paul Rosenberg's piano accompaniment captures the proper honky tonk cabaret spirit, and the music is lively and friendly. If anyone feels about to die from reading period's caffeine irritability, the best antidote is a dose of the Viennese Coffee Song. Perfectly written by O'Donnell and David Thomas, perfectly directed by Doug Hughes and perfectly performed by Japes Emerson, Paul Redford and David Reiffel, the song is a rousing drinking tune beginning with coffee cups raised high in the air, and proceeding through late-night camaraderie ("We'll drink and then we'll stay up all night...
...local shipyard. His grandfather, to whom Buffett dedicated an album, was a retired ship captain who first sailed aboard a whaler at the age of 14. Buffett himself left home at 18, bounced through a series of Southern colleges and took guitar lessons. He began touring the Southern honky-tonk circuit and recorded his first album in Nashville. Says he: "It was a terrible record...
...about it then sins again and always they seem to be in a Stones-type world, one described in Dog Days their 1975 album: where the singer goes "to sleep with an angel" and wakes up with a devil in his bed. Drinking in a "loud hot 'lanta honky tonk" is their style and if you don't like...