Episode 2141: #21-42: Honky Tonkin', Pt.1

The audience for country music in the years following the World War II was predominantly male, and many of the records were aimed at the jukeboxes that thrived in the bars and watering holes where working class audience gathered. This week on the program, we'll sample some classic honky-tonk music from the late '30s until today. We'll hear Kitty Wells, Hank Snow, Buck Owens, Webb Pierce and of course Hank Williams … along with contemporary tunes from The Byrds, Emmylou Harris and Asleep at the Wheel. Let's go Honky Tonkin' … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #21-42: Honky Tonkin', Pt.1

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

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Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

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