You know, Country & Western!
This ain't your Dad's country music. It's your Granddad's! None of that new Nashville bullshit either. This is where you'll find what I consider the best in Country (Classic and Alt), Folk, and Americana.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Actual hobo signs used by honky-tonk singer J.P. Harris as he rode the rails in his youth.
I gotta get this book!
“One time I had drinks one time with Dan Lennon, the younger brother who is their manager, and I said, ‘Dan, give me something naughty about the Lennon Sisters, they can’t be this perfect, you know, something dark.’ And he finally said, ‘They’re stubborn.’ That was the best he could come up with! At one point I was having trouble photographing Andy Williams. I was talking with the Lennon Sisters backstage, and they were asking me if I was having a good time. I mean, entertainers asking the photographer if he’s having a good time? They said, ‘Oh, Cathy will call you for him. He’ll do anything for Cathy.’ And sure enough, I got to see Andy Williams, three times.”
Photographer Henry Horenstein talks to us about his time covering the 1970s country music scene, all of which can be seen in a new edition of Honky Tonk.
If you are sad and lonely and have no place to go
Call me up sweet mama, and bring along some dough
And we’ll go honky tonkin’Hank Williams
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes
This song is, I believe what the kids call, “full of win”.
