Charlie Gillett was a British popular music historian who documented his obsessions in print and
on the radio, notably on a program called Honky Tonk that ran between 1972 and 1978. There, Gillett played a variety of his favorite American ...
Dreaming My Dreams was Waylon Jennings' first number one record, and deservedly so. He had
created outlaw country with Honky Tonk Heroes, and then delivered two further albums that subtly developed its themes, even if they weren't quite as consistent. ...
A two-disc, 32-track collection drawn from Time Life's ten-disc survey of modern country music called
Golden Age of Country, this volume includes such classics as Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues, Don Gibson's Oh Lonesome Me, Eddy Arnold's Make the World ...
The song subjects hardly classify Loveless as a honky-tonk angel, at least by Hank Thompson's
definition. But this was the album that established Loveless as a major presence, and it includes two of her biggest singles -- Chains, Timber I'm ...
Honky Tonk Angels collects ten recordings by Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Patsy Cline, Melba Montgomery,
and Jan Howard. This is a decent budget-priced collection to pick up from the bargain bin.
Taking a cue from some of his peers, balladeer Diffie makes a point to get
rowdy on this, his most commercially successful album to date. Besides the title track, it includes the hits Prop Me up Beside the Jukebox (If ...
This fun set collects 25 tracks featured by Charlie Gillett on Honky Tonk, his influential
show broadcast by Radio London, and the selections are wonderfully varied, mixing in sides like Joe South's Games People Play, J.J. Cale's Call Me the ...
As strong as Joe Ely's self-titled solo debut was, his second album, 1978's Honky Tonk
Masquerade, actually managed to top it, and the album remains one of the great creative triumphs of the Texas singer/songwriter community, as well as a ...