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...because, unlike the late lamented Beatles, they have always represented those elements of AM radio which are most incomprehensible and noisy to the ears of a Harvard professor or any comparable middle-aged fart. Andy Williams might have recorded "Ruby Tuesday" but he ain't gonna come near "Honky Tonk Women...

Author: By Andy Klein, | Title: If Mick Jagger's An Exile on Main St. .......Then I'm an Okie from Muskogee | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...barring acts of God or a radical takeover of city government, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the Class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known quite soon

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: The JFK Center and Harvard Square: At the Crossroad of Future Shock | 4/29/1972 | See Source »

...improvising attracted so much attention that a local piano teacher waived his usual fees and took the prodigy in hand. After Joplin's mother died, the youngster had a falling out with his father and at 14 left home to take up the life of a honky-tonk pianist. He wandered to St. Louis, Chicago, and finally in 1894 to Sedalia, Mo., picking up work mostly in brothels and lowlife clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Rags to Rags | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...Honky Tonk...

Author: By Compiled BY Andy klein, | Title: Semi-Annual Oldies Quiz | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...Honky Tonk...

Author: By Charlie Allen, | Title: The Crimson Supplement | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

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