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honkytonk
To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz pianist in a honkytonk.
From the time.com
Veteran Country Entertainer Red Sovine discovered him singing in 1963 in a Montana honkytonk.
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For live music, start with the honkytonk bars of Lower Broadway, where stars of the future play for tips.
From the mirror.co.uk
And then we did The Great Procrastinator in the community centre hall just down the road, which had this old honkytonk-type bar-room piano.
From the nzherald.co.nz
They hand-picked the group and attempted to shape it into a bubbly hit machine, but their lively but superficial honkytonk pop was indistinct and the band fell apart within a few months.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- A cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall
- A honky-tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is a type of bar with musical entertainment common in the Southern and Southwestern United States. The term has also been applied to various styles of 20th-century American music.
- (also "honky-tonk") 1. A roadhouse or bar featuring entertainment. The term seems to have come from C&W (Webster s says that it s "of uncertain origin"). 2. A style of piano playing deriving from sense 1. ...
- Hard, electrified country style that began in the Texas joints of the '30s and was disseminated by Ernest Tubb a decade later
