Honky tonk

Don Robey and Duke and Peacock Records In 1947, Robey became the manager for blues singer Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. Soon after, Robey and business manager Evelyn Johnson, who is pictured here, established Robey the Buffalo Booking Agency. Two years later, Robey established Peacock Records, with Brown as his first artist. Robey was responsible for developing the careers of many rhythm and blues artists in the 1950s and 1960s, including Johnny Ace, Johnny Otis, Junior Parker, and Bobby Bland. Robey

The beginning of Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck, gives/includes a great description for the milieu. After reading the opening chapter it is easy to imagine yourself to the real settings. Story revolves around the very realistic environment of harbour cities in the twentieth century; stinky mixed odour of dead and living fish and rusty metal splinters sprawling all around. So, if you get properly affected by that description, you should nose out the stink of canned fish and feel like you ́re one of

Nashville- The City That Opened My Eyes Loading the hefty luggage into the vehicle, we were beginning our journey to an exciting place that I’ll never forget. We were traveling from my hometown located in the southeastern part of Mississippi, Waynesboro. Waynesboro is like the land of zero opportunities. The streets are often bare and boring. There is no “downtown”; everything is crammed in one section of the small town. Calling Waynesboro dull would be considered an understatement, but where we

where he realized his love for music, and his gift for playing the keyboard. He credits much of his early influence to the late Bill Doggett, a Philadelphia-born jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist who was best known for his compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy"; and playing with the Ink Spots, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Jordan. Doggett, whose mother lived two doors down from the Williams’ family, would drop by and visit Bryan while in the City. Williams said, “Every time he was in town

the article Farming in the 50's and 60's Gazel argues ''Kitty Wells was one of the first women to break the gender barrier in country music and to address the sexism inherent in the industry, in her own way. She recorded "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels." Beyond of

In the late nineteenth century, African American musicians introduced this syncopated, up tempo music with a steady beat to small, unpopular venues; this style of piano music was called ragtime because of the how ragged their arrangements were. Ragtime was like marches and it has a European harmony with African rhythm. This style of music became known as it was used for actors to do their cakewalk, which is a high stepping dance, at the end of the minstrel shows. An African American, Scott Joplin

It was a hot August day in Nashville Tennessee. We were sitting in the bar with the people that we go on vacation with every year. The band was playing their country music and at the corner of my eye I saw an RV. This RV looked familiar from some TV show. So I asked my dad to walk out and see what it was and there it was...Duck Dynasty. It was August 11th 2015. We were all tired from the long car ride. The temperature was different from Cincinnati, it felt hotter in downtown Nashville. You

“Other kids could play cowboys and Indians and imagine that they’d grow up to be cowboys,” he wrote in his Living Proof autobiography. “I couldn’t do that. I knew that I would never grow up to be a cowboy or a fireman or the president of the United States. I knew I’d grow up to be a singer. That’s all there ever was, the only option, from the beginning.” http://www.hankjr.com/career-biography/ The quote above is from Hank Williams Jr’s Biography. Hank Williams Jr always knew, even from the beginning

In The District you'll find a number of great honky-tonk bars, the best of which are Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Wildhorse Saloon, and Robert's Western World. Printers Alley – named for the number of printing businesses once located in the area – is home to three excellent music venues: Bourbon Street

“Hillbilly music is an American popular music that was commercially broadcast and recorded between 1922 and 1942 and that eventually evolved into modern country music and the regional genres of western swing, honky-tonk, and bluegrass”( Huber 19). Southern textile workers played a significant role in the evolution of this genre of America’s popular music. Examining the vital role of Piedmont textile workers in the creation of hillbilly music offers new understanding