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 ...

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 ...

Though he may have resembled one of the most famous musicians of all time, The Honky Tonk Man would be the first person to tell you that Elvis Presley couldn’t shine his shoes, both in the ring and in ...

From New York City to Chicago to Portland, bars are riding a country boom, drawing everyone from outlaw singers to finance bros for ‘countryoke’ and line dancing.

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,” ...

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 ...

Here at Uproxx, we love a good ol’ honky-tonk almost as much as we love summer itself. And the two fit together as naturally as, well… beers and twangy country tunes. But honky-tonk knowledge is like ...

He's got long sideburns and his hair is slicked back, he's coming to your town in a pink Cadillac... For years, fans of World Wrestling Entertainment heard the Honky Tonk Man's theme play over the PA ...

I had never been to Nashville before, but it doesn’t take long before I see why this middle Tennessee city is considered the country music capital of the world. Downtown honky-tonks pump out live ...

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 ...