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In 2017, a double live album was released of Blaker and his Texas Honky-Tonk Band called "Live-Through the Years 1979–2002". [10] Also in 2017, an article in the Houston Chronicle named Blaker's 1998 album "Rumor Town" one of the best Texas singer-songwriter albums of all-time. [11]
His more popular recordings were of honky-tonk numbers, such as "Close All the Honky Tonks", and "Honky Tonk Women". [2] Walker played a minor role in the 1985 Patsy Cline biographical film, Sweet Dreams. [3] Walker died of colon cancer in September 2008, at the age of 81 in Hendersonville, Tennessee. [3] [4]
Before World War II, the music industry began to refer to hillbilly music being played from Texas and Oklahoma to the West Coast as "honky-tonk" music. In the 1950s, honky-tonk entered its golden age, with the popularity of Webb Pierce, Hank Locklin, Lefty Frizzell, Faron Young, George Jones, and Hank Williams.
Nov. 13, 1988: Working to revive Billy Bob’s Texas honky-tonk in the Fort Worth Stockyards are, from left, Don Jury, Steven Murrin and Ken Brixey. Dec. 30, 1989: Garth Brooks performs at Billy ...
Veteran Texas country traditionalist Randall King's second release for Warner Music Nashville celebrates the humanity and soul of honky-tonk.
Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), [2] nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, " Walking the Floor Over You " (1941), marked the rise of the honky-tonk style of music.
Texas honky-tonker George Strait holds his Male Vocalist of the Year during the 19th annual CMA Awards show in 1985. Strait has been nominated for CMA awards a record 83 times during his four ...
Bush was born John Bush Shinn III in the Kashmere Gardens neighborhood of Houston. [2] He listened to the western swing music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and the honky-tonk sounds of artists such as Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, and Hank Thompson. [3]