This past weekend, Ella Langley headlined shows in Texas, and she broke out some classic country in Kitty Wells’ honky tonk heartbreaker “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” ...

Certain country music so perfectly captures the dimly-lit lifestyle of a smoky dive bar that it shares its moniker with those establishments: honky-tonk. Both as a place and as a song, the honky-tonk ...

It’s line dancing night at Nash Bar & Stage and a couple dozen folks are out on the floor, smacking their cowboy boots to Ian Munsick’s “I See Country.” Under the glow of a sign that asks “What Would ...

Country music legend Loretta Lynn celebrated an impressive milestone over the weekend with the 60th anniversary of her very first single, "Honky Tonk Girl." On Saturday (Feb. 1), the 87-year-old music ...

During World War Two, a new sound sprang up in the darkened taverns and barrooms around the oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma, spread to California and then the industrial cities of the North. The beer ...

It's official. Post Malone's gone country, and now he's opening a honky-tonk at the heart of country music history: Nashville's Lower Broadway. The rapper-turned-country crooner announced on June 3 ...

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have been in each other's lives since 1987, but it wasn't until the pair launched their Friends in Low Place honky-tonk in Nashville that their relationship was truly ...

Nashville's Lower Broadway has transformed from a row of pawn shops and run-down bars to a bustling tourist destination filled with celebrity-backed honky-tonks. The influx of tourism and investment ...

During the decade when Peter Frampton, Kiss, Springsteen, the Eagles, punk and disco all strangely intersected in popular music, photographer Henry Horenstein photographed a completely different ...