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GaryHoetker

 

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Bakersfield, CA, USA
Post  Posted 22 Nov 1999 5:18 pm    
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Read the Honky Tonk Song Post: I cast my votes for the following four:

1.Close Up The Honky Tonks- Buck Owens and Don Rich duet and Tom Brumley on steel-maybe the best of all time IMO

2. A Way To Survive-Ray Price

3. Wine Me Up-Faron Young

4. Wishful Thinking-Wynn Stewart
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Ron Whitworth


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Yuma,Ariz.USA Yeah they say it's a DRY heat !!
Post  Posted 24 Nov 1999 3:24 am    
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Hey Gary; What a LIST!!!!!! I agree;those are some of the best..I think Wynn should should be closer to the top..Later Ron
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Joe Casey


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Weeki Wachee .Springs FL (population.9)
Post  Posted 24 Nov 1999 5:21 am    
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Boy talk about instant memory. The first song I ever did professionally was Wynn's "Playboy". "Little Biddie"was one of the all time best,I wonder if he is in the Country Music hall of Fame?

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Jimmy Youngblood


Post  Posted 24 Nov 1999 7:48 pm    
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"The jukebox is playin'... a honky tonk song"
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chris ivey


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california (deceased)
Post  Posted 28 Nov 1999 1:40 pm    
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anything...(everything)...by gary stewart!!
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hank R

 

Post  Posted 28 Nov 1999 8:46 pm    
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Hey Jimmie ,
Is that the song by G. Jones early stuff .
....an empty bottle a broken heart and you're
still on my mind.
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Jimmy Youngblood


Post  Posted 29 Nov 1999 8:41 am    
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Hank...that's it, bud!

I first heard Jones' version... Paycheck had a later version (with a couple neat modulations)

Both are great "Honky Tonk" classics.
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Ken Tinsman

 

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Buedingen/Wolf, Germany
Post  Posted 1 Dec 1999 6:30 am    
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Close up the Honky Tonks. Thas a good one I haven't thought of for a long time. The Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman did pretty good version of it to.

I'd like to add a vote for "Swingin Doors" by Hag.
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Eddie Lange

 

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Nashville, TN
Post  Posted 6 Dec 1999 8:04 pm    
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Ditto on the Paycheck/Jones classic. I LOVE that song. One cool version of it is on Paycheck's "Live at Gilleys." The whole album features fabulous playing by one of my favorites, Jimmy Murphy. Oh, Merle's new guitar picker, Redd Volkaert has got a cut of it on his album. Great stuff and that has Jimmy Murphy on that album too! Yeah!

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MALCOLM KIRBY

 

From:
Crofton, KY USA
Post  Posted 11 Dec 1999 12:45 pm    
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I agree with Chris.
Gary Stewart is the King Of The Honky Tonks !
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Rich Paton

 

From:
Santa Maria, CA.,
Post  Posted 11 Dec 1999 3:35 pm    
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Hag: "I Think I'll Just Stay Here And Drink"
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Dave Van Allen


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Doylestown, PA , US , Earth
Post  Posted 16 Dec 1999 6:14 pm    
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Geo. Jones:
"Out of COntrol"
"Relief is Just a Swallow Away"
"Barmaid in the Honky Tonk Downstairs"

Paycheck: "A-11" (my absolute #1 HT fave)

another vote for "Close up The HT's"

Hank THompson "Three Little Beers" and "6 pack 2 go"

Jim Ed Brown "Pop A Top"

"Dim Lights Thick Smoke and Loud Loud Music"
????????

"I Just Started Hating Cheating Songs Today"-Moe Bandy


oh I could go on all night...
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Jerry Hayes


From:
Virginia Beach, Va.
Post  Posted 16 Dec 1999 7:10 pm    
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How about Borrowed Angel by Mel Street, or George Jone's "You Comb her Hair. Another favorite of mine is Warner Mack's "I might as well be talkin' to the wall".

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Have a good one! JH U-12
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Bill cole

 

From:
Cheektowaga, New York, USA
Post  Posted 16 Dec 1999 8:11 pm    
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How about Half a man, or I never go around mirriors or cup of coffe by Claude Grey or lonesome ol town by Winn Stewart, or I lie a lotand on and on and anything by Johnny Bush
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rmason

 

From:
Caracas, Venezuela
Post  Posted 18 Dec 1999 4:38 am    
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Hank Williams' Honky Tonk Blues. He also
did Honky Tonkin'. Maybe he coined the
term or was the first to put it on a
record.

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Rod Mason


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