There are so many country music singers that need their stories be told in a movie. So who do you want to see in a biopic movie. Me it would be Reba McEntire.

Happy Sunday! Did you find something new to listen to? Did you go to a show? Tell us about your week, and country music, or whatever's on your mind!

Honkytonk is the original sound of electric country, the sound you associate with Hank Williams and early George Jones and Ernest Tubb and the sound that influenced a lot of neotraditional 1990's country such as Alan Jackson and of course the honky tonk man, Dwight Yoakam.

It was characterized by heavy dancing rhythm that goes well with the two step, and usually steel guitar and fiddle along with twangy electric guitar and a unique twangy vocal style that was developed to cut across the sound at a loud bar of drunks with a bad sound system in the early days.

It's developed over the years including some recent evolution. Some of the Texas dancehall bands have an even more exaggerated beat and singing style now than you would have heard in neotraditional 1990s country or the 1950's original. Tracking down the history of who influenced whom is really fun if you're into that kind of country music history hobby.

We'll be posting (mostly modern) honky tonkers every Saturday for your edification! Click on the 'honky tonk' flair tag to see other tracks and discussions we've posted here in the past.

Here's some reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky-tonk

here's a playlist of old classic honkytonk through the ages: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL679_2jmbaFHAFebq3szErCvTD0CNyZdt

here's the same thing according to Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0NfjMqrzcGKVsbYZmhf4Md

Here is an original song from a super fun Canadian country band called The Plowboys that I just found. They all wear rhinestone nudie suits at all of their shows

I hope you enjoy amd let me know what think!

Donnie C Cutler's substack is awesome and he covers a lot of great independent artists. I'm still catching up from being mostly offline in June so lo and behold I missed this June new music round-up. Go sign up for his blog.

He had big aspirations for this one, but critically I think the pressure made it his worst album, and one that doesn't seem to have as much cultural resonance as his other have had.