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• n  (slang) offensive names for a White man

• It's Friday night, and there have got to be 500 people packed into the Sluice Box, a beer-soaked clapboard honky-tonk at the Alaska State Fair the state's biggest event all .
• Around 1900, in the honky-tonks and whorehouses of New Orleans, it became jazz.
• For a group of expat teenagers, Hong Kong's honky-tonk quarter of Kowloon was once the ultimate playground.

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News & Articles

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• Anti-saggy-pants ordinance passed in Wildwood
  WILDWOOD - An ordinance approved Wednesday by local officials to make those on the boardwalk pull up their pants - billed as a way to promote decency in this honky-tonk Jersey Shore town - is a violation of constitutional and civil rights, says the American Civil Liberties Union.
  June 13, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Keokuk natives come home with Red Meat June 22
  California-based honky tonk band Red Meat will perform in Keokuk with William Elliott Whitmore and Out on Bail at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at the Knights of Columbus Hall.
  June 12, 2013 - Keokuk Daily Gate City
• Gravy Boys bring blend of rock, bluegrass to Oriental
  ORIENTAL — Mix a pinch of rock, a handful of honky tonk and a splash of bluegrass, and you’ve got The Gravy Boys. The Gravy Boys present a free concert sponsored by the Pamlico Musical Society June 22 at Lou Mac Park in Oriental.
  June 12, 2013 - New Bern Sun Journal

Quotes

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• Billy Joe Shaver in The Associated Press
  The self-styled "Honky Tonk Hero" recorded more than 20 albums and wrote "Georgia on a Fast Train" and "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna Be a Diamond Someday)."
• Jake Shears in National Post
  I got away from everybody I knew, packed a bag and jumped ship,says Shears, who calls the music on Scissor Sisters' new album, Night Work, "classic rock-inspired electronic honky-tonk," adding that new songs like Fire With Fire and...
• Dee Snider in Boston Herald
  It's something that could have happened anywhere to any music fan,Snider said yesterday. "There are these fire trap clubs all over the world, all over the country, and it could have been in an urban club or in a country honky tonk."