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Honky-tonk music influenced the boogie-woogie piano style, as indicated by Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 record "Honky Tonk Music" and Meade Lux Lewis's hit "Honky Tonk Train Blues." Lewis recorded the latter many times from 1927 into the 1950s, and the song was covered by many other musicians, including Oscar Peterson.
Steve Solomon (1949–2005) was a lifelong musician and played saxophones, keyboards, and flute for the Dusty Chaps in the late 1970s in Tucson, AZ. On their album, "Honky-Tonk Music" (Capitol ST-11614), he was featured on "Juke Joint Daddy", "Invisible Man" and "Rounder".
"Honky Tonk" is an instrumental written by Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, and Shep Shepherd. Doggett recorded it as a two-part single in 1956. [ 2 ] It became Doggett's signature piece and a standard recorded by many other performers.
Amazon Music, Garth Brooks' longtime partner for his streaming musical releases, will air the opening of his downtown Nashville "Friends In Low Places" bar and honky-tonk as a Black Friday Amazon ...
Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 – November 6, 2007) [1] was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades. Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals.
The Bakersfield sound is a sub-genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. [1] Bakersfield is defined by its influences of rock and roll and honky-tonk style country, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats. [2]
on YouTube " Honky-Tonk Girl " is a song co-written and originally recorded by Hank Thompson . [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Released by him on Capitol Records in 1954, [ 2 ] [ 5 ] it was a nationwide country hit in the United States that year (reaching country number nine on Billboard ).
Lewis' best-known work, "Honky Tonk Train Blues”, has been recorded in various contexts, often in a big band arrangement. [4] Early recordings of the piece by artists other than Lewis include performances by Adrian Rollini, Frankie Trumbauer, classical harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, theater organist George Wright (with drummer Cozy Cole, under the title "Organ Boogie"), and Bob Zurke with ...