Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Garth Brooks has become a sort of Ross Perot of country music. First he suggests he may quit performing. Then he says he's back in. Now, on his new album, In Pieces, Brooks has made one of his worst decisions by recording a misguided anthem titled American Honky-Tonk Bar Association. In this song, over a beat as rambunctious as a mechanical bull, this most favored of country stylists asks listeners to join with the "hardhat, gunrack, achin'-back, over-taxed, flag-wavin' fun-lovin' crowd," especially if they're upset when their "dollar goes to all of those...
...huge bass line and bottomless saxophones back up Richards and the unidentified female vocalist who sings the high notes. Standing in for the honky-tonk harmonica from the original studio version is a gut-wrenching menace that can barely shriek loudly enough to be audible over the constant pounding of the bass, drums and Richards' amazingly continuous guitar choruses...
What has true cowboys like Levi perplexed is a craze moving like a prairie fire from country honky-tonks into yuppie nightspots across America: country- line dancing. A descendant of the conga line and the Harlem Hustle, line dancing lets any number join in on a series of dips, kicks and turns, under names like Walkin' Wazi, Boot Scootin' Boogie, Tush Push, Neon Moon and Honky- Tonk Stomp...
...LIVING: Honky-Tonk Stomping...
...popular lecturer in political economy at Harvard; as a best-selling and prolific author and essayist, television commentator and corporate consultant. Built like a jockey (4 ft. 10 in. and wiry) and bursting with humor and energy, Reich could always attract and hold an audience, even when playing honky-tonk piano for friends on weekends. And for the past 24 years, he has won some of his loudest applause from a friend named Bill Clinton, who campaigned for the White House on an economic plan framed around Reich's ideas for creating good American jobs in the new global economy...