The term honky tonk has two meanings - it can be a tavern or club in the South which is comfortable for the common working man, a bit like a pub in the UK. It also describes the style of music played on the jukebox or by live bands. This week and next we'll hear classic and contemporary honky tonk artists and music including Don Rich, Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Val Mindel and Emily Miller, and lots more. We'll dance the night away … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways 

Don Rich / “Buckeroo” / Country Pickin': The Don Rich Anthology / Sundazed

The Byrds / “You're Still on My Mind” / Sweetheart of the Rodeo / Columbia

Hank Williams / “Honky Tonk Blues” / 40 Greatest Hits / Polydor

Jean Shepard /w Ferlon Husky / “A Dear John Letter” / Super Hits / Gusto

Emmylou Harris & the Nash Ramblers / “Two More Bottles of Wine” / Ramble in Music City / Nonesuch

Buddy Holly / “Midnight Shift” / The Definitive Collection / Decca

Asleep at the Wheel / “The Letter that Johnny Walker Read” / Half a Hundred Years / Bismeaux

Val Mindel & Emily Miller / “Lonely Street” / Close to Home / Yodel-Ay-Hee

Kitty Wells / “It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels” / Essential Honky Tonk / Not Now

Roger Miller / “Kansas City Star” / All Time Greatest Hits / Mercury

Don Rich / “Chicken Pickin'” / Country Pickin': The Don Rich Anthology / Sundazed

Vernon Solomon / “Beaumont Rag” / Texas Hoedown Revisited / County

Jess Willard / “Honky Tonk Hardwood Floor” / Hillbilly Boogie and Jive / Atomicat

Hank Snow / “I'm Moving On” / The Very Best of Hank Snow / BMG

Patsy Montana / “Montana Plains” / Ragged But Right: Great Country String Bands of the 1930's / RCA

Merle Haggard / “Mama Tried” / Live at Billy Bob's Texas / Smith Music Group

Webb Pierce / “There Stands the Glass” / King of the Honky Tonk / MCA

Buck Owens / “Under Your Spell Again” / Right After the Dance / Atomicat

Willie Nelson / “Heartaches by the Number” / A Tribute to Ray Price / Legacy

Bill Doggett / “Honky Tonk pt.2” / Honky Tonk / Ace 

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways