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 ...

From New York City to Chicago to Portland, bars are riding a country boom, drawing everyone from outlaw singers to finance ...

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 ...

Being from Texas, country music is pretty well in our blood. It’s such a staple of our lives that we could live on Texas country and nothing else, without ever having to know about Nashville. Of ...

From Ernest Tubb to Bob Wills to Willie, Texas has produced a jukebox worth of classics. Here are the best. We’re celebrating honky-tonks all month long here at Texas Monthly. Don’t forget to check ...

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 ...

Today, people travel from all over the world to visit the famed honky-tonks on Nashville's Lower Broadway. Country twang and crooning vocals from their multiple stages flood the streets at any time of ...

Women’s trials and tribulations — and the pushbacks, heartfelt to humorous — were a primal wellspring for 20th century country music. “Honky Tonk Angels,” Laguna Playhouse’s unexpected unearthing of a ...

We’re celebrating honky-tonks all month long here at Texas Monthly. Don’t forget to check out our definitive list of The Best Honky-Tonks in Texas. Today touted as the “world’s largest honky-tonk,” ...

Being from North Texas, country music is pretty well in our blood. We could live our whole lives and never utter the word “Nashville.” Of course there ain’t much that’s more country than a good ...