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 ...

An album that formed a cornerstone of the "Outlaw Country" movement in the 1970s has just been reissued. Music critic Meredith Ochs has been thinking about Waylon Jennings' Honky Tonk Heroes and its ...

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,” ...

Nashville's beloved Second Fiddle honky tonk is set to close for good on January 1st, leaving behind a legacy of ...

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 ...