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...HONKY TONK FREEWAY...
...Ouija board, the softshell crab, the national anthem, the nation's first passenger railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio), Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, the Preakness, H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe (not to mention Spiro Agnew). It is also one of the last American possessors of a genuine honky-tonk district, known fondly as The Block, though even that lusty landmark has been sadly vulgarized by topless dancing and a renewal project that has largely plasticized its façade. Mencken once complained that the Baltimore harbor of his youth had smelled in summer like "a billion polecats." Today the Inner Harbor...
...music," Ely states proudly, "is a strong, aggressive attack," and at a time when outlaws like Willie Nelson have mellowed into genteel grandees, Ely is an unreconstructed rowdy. He works the kind of honky-tonk where the patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
...tunes). This set, mostly from 1956-57, features Curtis at his absolute best; his stutters, yowls and screams on sax constitute the perfect Rock & Roll instrumental voice. When Sam Price and friends hit their boogie woogie stride on tracks like "Roll'em Sam," "Bar B-Q Sauce" and "Honky Tonk Caboose," nothing else seems to matter...
...main location is Gilley's, a sprawling honky-tonk near Houston, which features country music in an allegedly volatile atmosphere. It provides the emotional center for the lives of some of the working-class population of that booming and still settling American city. Bridges' version of the action at Gilley's is strangely soft. What should be a jostling, raunchy, sexually charged atmosphere seems cool, dull and listless...