Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MOST PAINFUL SCREECH The inharmonious notes emitted by such flops as Rags, Raggedy Ann, Into the Light and Honky Tonk Nights, which indicated that the once robust Broadway musical is very sick indeed...
...continuing a daunting threeyear run of almost unrelieved financial failure for what used to be Broadway's mainstay. Staged with varying degrees of artistry, the ill-fated shows shared one disabling presumption: musicals must be "about" something beyond melody and romance. Rags tried to survey the immigrant experience, Honky Tonk Nights blended music hall with racial conflict, Raggedy Ann was a dying girl's Freudian nightmare, and Into the Light asked whether the Shroud of Turin is Jesus Christ's burial cloth. All suffocated under the weight of their ambition...
...only time the 107-year-old Crystal Palace ever closed its doors was during Prohibition. At one time or other, it served as a makeshift movie theater and honky-tonk. In 1963 Wallace Clayton, editor of the National Tombstone Epitaph, and Partner Harold Love, along with two other investors, bought the place for $100,000 and spent another $100,000 restoring its original 1880s decor, including 20-ft. ceilings, swinging doors and frosted- glass windows. Now Clayton and Love's widow are ready to retire, but they say that the Crystal Palace is profitable. Local ranchers and tourists enjoy being...
Music is also at the heart of the Blue Suede Shoes Saloon in Memphis, which Carl Perkins helped start three months ago. The country-and-western singer- songwriter "wanted it to be a real rockabilly honky-tonk, and I think that's what we've got." And he wanted it to be on Beale Street, "where you could just feel the history of the place, the spirit." New Jersey Generals Quarterback (barring a rumored trade) Doug Flutie was also concerned with locale. Flutie's Pier 17,a 15,000-sq.-ft. restaurant that officially opened last week...
...California Sunset," a snatch of western swing recorded live at the Austin City Limits honky tonk, kicks off side two. After "Get Back to the Country," it's the album's strongest song. Next up, the title cut, is a classic Waylon-style "Gonna quit this drugs and drinkin" confessional. It's one of Young's funniest pieces since "Yonder Stands the Sinner...