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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

George Strait's selected "Every Little Honky Tonk Bar" as his brand-new single. The song will officially go to country radio on Monday (Feb. 11), ahead of the late-March release of the country ...

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 ...

Rapper turned country singer Post Malone is opening a new honky-tonk bar on Nashville's Lower Broadway. The bar will be located at 305 Broadway, the former site of Tequila Cowboy. The bar will feature ...

Before Murphy Bailey ever set foot in Henry’s Hideout, an 87-year-old honky-tonk just up the road from his hometown of Magnolia, 45 miles northwest of Houston, he had heard stories about it and Henry ...

Though he may have resembled one of the most famous musicians of all time, The Honky Tonk Man would be the first person to tell you that Elvis Presley couldn’t shine his shoes, both in the ring and in ...

The singer's career spanned eight decades, with hits including "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels," a retort to Hank Thompson’s “The Wild Side of Life.” By Erik Pedersen Kitty Wells - H 2012 ...

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 ...