Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cotton's electric influences have far from absorbed the band's other styles. Poco has long included an acoustic segment in their shows, pickin' their way through "You Are the One," "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," and their medley of "Hard Luck," "Child's Claim to Fame," and "Pickin' up the Pieces." The acoustic songs, particularly "Honky-Tonk Downstairs," retain much more country feeling than the electric music. These songs are Rusty Young's, and he acknowledges his pedal steel predecessors with some of the purest country steel guitar outside Nashville on "Honky-Tonk," and his own instrumental "Grand Junction," with...
...piano playing was excellent, particularly the honky tonk chording on "How Blue Can You Get." The song was made by B.B.'s strutting on the famous bridge. "Bought you a brand new Ford, you wanted a Cadillac. Bought you a ten dollar dinner, (swivel the hips, here) you said. "Thanks for the snack...
...great cross-section of occupations is represented as well; antique dealer, an egg salesman, a grocery store owner, a hermit from the backwoods, a clown, a few auto mechanics, a few hell's angels, ballet dancers, policemen, the works. The photographers have haunted such honky tonk spots as Revere and Nantasket Beach, and Paragon Park. They have sunk into the ghettoes, slunk into back stage dressing rooms, and escaped into meat markets, barber shops, auction barns, trailer parks, fields and kitchens, as well as their friends' homes...
...Dynamo" is the other Ballard rave-up. The shouted vocal owes a bit to Steve Miller's pioneer work in the field of white blues singing. Argent's piano playing here is strictly honky tonk: in total concept, the song faintly echoes some of Fleetwood Mac's later efforts. Ballard takes his only solo on this tune, and shows himself to be an adequate guitarist, even if he does sound like a cautious Jimmy Page...
While the amnesic lad marked time by doing odd jobs for the Salvation Army and playing honky-tonk piano, distraught mothers of runaways called Key West by the hundreds, claiming him as their own. Finally the real parents showed up, identifying the boy as Kim Basil Kadas, 16, of East Chicago, Ind. Kim recognized his mother and departed for home with his parents, leaving those anguished mothers to go on searching countless police stations and claiming sandy-haired, blue-eyed teenage boys as their lost sons...