Word: tonk
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...Friday night, and there have got to be 500 people packed into the Sluice Box, a beer-soaked clapboard honky-tonk at the Alaska State Fair - the state's biggest event all year - just down the highway from Governor Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla. The legendary Hobo Jim, Alaska's official state balladeer, the guy who has opened sessions of the legislature with a song, is onstage, working blue...
...Guests are treated to an hour-long musical theater piece about the town's history and progress. When they leave the 1,200-seat auditorium, the show's honky tonk-meets-Peking opera soundtrack blares through loudspeakers, echoing across tidy rows of red-roofed, three-storey homes...
...Short- or medium-term effects, according to Gabriela Tonk, deputy chief of the National authority for child protection also include "a higher risk that the child will suffer emotional, physical or sexual abuse. In extreme cases children are even recruited for prostitution or a criminal network...
...With a Coin,” the album’s first single, lopes along to hand-claps and layered vocals, and something even fresher stands out on “The Devil Never Sleeps,” which blends a radio-ready chorus with honky-tonk piano riffs. Still, the album sags in places, too noticeably to be rescued by occasional brilliance. Much of it sounds uninspired, despite the fact that this is material Beam has supposedly been sitting on for some time. While 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days” had only...
...Everybody concentrated on his looks - the sultry, pouting, feminine face, with its unabashed sexual threat - and his moves, cranking those hips like a honky-tonk woman's. As John Lennon said much later, it was an epiphany for kids to see "a guy with long, greasy hair wigglin' his ass and singin' 'Hound Dog'." Elvis was the first pop singer who had to be seen, not just heard, to be appreciated (or condemned). What was ignored at the time was his connection to the two crucial vocalists who had preceded him: Bing Crosby in the 1920s and 30s, Frank Sinatra...