[Dixielandjazz] Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues

[Mike Durham]

Bill's quote says that honky-tonks grew up in the 30's in east Texas, but in 
Clara Smith's 1928 recording of 'It's All Coming Home To You' she sings 
"you've been honky-tonkin' me, while I'm true as true can be"), so the word 
must have been in use earlier....

Mike


>From: mensa-1 at webtv.net (william crist)
>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>CC: mensa-1 at webtv.net
>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues
>Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 07:48:42 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>Here is an interesting website from the Cool Tricks And Trinkets
>newsletter. Not OKOM, but some interesting interviews and audio from the
>early western swing and blues performers.
>
>
>Honky Tonks, Hymns & the Blues
>Honky Tonks sprang up in the 1930s around the east Texas oil fields as
>places to get loose after a long hard day's work, as described best in
>Hank Williams' country hit "Honky Tonkin." Honky Tonks, Hymns and the
>Blues is the online partner to NPR's Morning Edition radio program that
>features interviews with performers Pam Tillis and Jean Shepard and the
>music of Kitty Wells, Hank Thompson and Pam Tillis.
>With the program's Friday highlights of American musical traditions that
>are the building blocks of today's popular music, and audio and video
>selections from the programs, reference material and links to roots
>music radio stations and record labels. Sign up for e-mail updates when
>new material is posted.
>http://www.honkytonks.org/
><a href=" http://www.honkytonks.org/ ">AOL click here</a>
>
>Bill Crist
>
>
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