Where Is The Honky Tonk Music ?
By: Esther Berlanga-Ryan Date: October 2006 Link: Honky Tonk music is a thing of the past, says the one-track-minded sadly so-called Country Music Industry nowadays. Thank God not everybody is trying to please the white collar lawyers in charge of the big influencial record labels in Nashville. And there are still young artists that care about doing their homework, who listen to the music of those who actually built up that same Industry, while learning what the one time called Hillbilly Music really is all about. They are the ones that can proudly proclaim to be indeed the legitimate living legacy of Ernest Tubb and Hank Williams. After all, Country Music used to be made by and for the common blue collar hard- working men and women in America. And it sure feels good to keep it where it belongs. As his debut album cries out loud, Columbus, Georgia’s native Joey Allcorn was physically born at least fifty years too late. But his soul might as well have been born back when the good old on
