Sentence examples for honky from inspiring English sources

Like its 2013 predecessor Old Yellow Moon, it's a lovely journey through their joint musical hinterland, featuring finely crafted songs, graceful harmonies and just a little bit of honky tonk.

Such music rhythm and blues and honky tonk was developed in live performance by traveling musicians who made their living by attracting dancers to bars, clubs, and halls.

In 1991 he moved to the capital of country music, Nashville, where he played a regular gig in an unremarkable honky tonk.

In the late 1940s radio was broadcasting blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel music, exciting listeners across North America and inspiring young, white, working-class musicians especially those in locales with African-American populations to mix black music styles with the country music styles with which they were already familiar (western swing, hillbilly boogie, bluegrass, and honky tonk).

But then he goes to Africa with a "white honky bitch" – again, his words, not mine – and comes back saying he's sorry he ever spoke Nigger's name.

R: Chas 'n' Dave, honky tonk, soul and blues.

But anyone wanting the real sound of music at home we can't price our ex-colleague's visits to honky-tonk bars, possibly listed as "concert with Vanderbilts"—had to buy an instrument (and then pay for his daughters to be taught how to play it).

"In the Valley of Elah" shows a bleak world of honky-tonks, fast-food outlets and faceless motels surrounding an army base.

"Looks like he's going to keep that title for quite a while," said Granger Smith, a country singer, before resuming his honky-tonk song at Mr Perry's election-night party.

Close on the heels of his honky-tonk debut album, Strait Country (1981), he issued Strait from the Heart (1982), which contained his first number one country music hit, "Fool Hearted Memory".

He became one of the earliest exponents of honky-tonk with hits such as "I'm Walking the Floor over You" (1941).