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Isaak Brodsky
03-05-2008, 11:14 PM
honky tonk

Born and raised in the United States, I still have no idea. Can anyone pin down the meaning??????? The term tends to turn up in country western songs.
kombu_kid
03-05-2008, 11:19 PM
isn't it a country western type of bar?.......maybe more of like a country-style dance club or such......at least that's my image of what it means.
Isaak Brodsky
03-05-2008, 11:24 PM
realllllllllllllllllllly?!?!?!?!

so, can someone actually be a honky tonk man, as is sometimes sung?
kombu_kid
03-05-2008, 11:29 PM
I guess if he's playin' his tunes in a honky tonk bar.........I was gonna throw this one out: the killing floor. I've heard this song and it's mentioned in The Lemon Song by LedZep. But I checked out Wiki, and it explained a little bit of it's meaning.......just weird, and that phrase in a song just has always sounded really strange to me. Never quite got it.
Isaak Brodsky
03-05-2008, 11:40 PM
Great song! I also like "Thank You." I kinda miss that whole era.
okisteve
03-05-2008, 11:51 PM
honky tonk

Born and raised in the United States, I still have no idea. Can anyone pin down the meaning??????? The term tends to turn up in country western songs.

Without the aid of Wikipedia, I'll say that it is a booze shack where you could get likkered up and hear down and dirty blues. Probably predates country/western by decades, and also wasn't there a Rolling Stones song?
EpicTrainwreck
03-06-2008, 12:01 AM
I think it is an antiquaited hillbilly term for balls-out, tear the roof offa this mo-fo, no-holds-barred party. I believe.
kombu_kid
03-06-2008, 06:57 AM
and also wasn't there a Rolling Stones song?

Honky Tonk Woman.......(maybe that's where she hung out.) I'll hafta get the lyrics & check that out.
socalheart
03-06-2008, 07:46 AM
what about "honky tonk badonkadonk (http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/adkins-trace/honky-tonk-badonkadonk-15326.html)"? lol. ;) that's a great song. everyone seems to know what it means, but can't actually define it. maybe it's like a god concept thing. heh. yeah, probably going straight to some kind of hell for that one. :p
It's so hard not to stare
At that honky tonk badonkadonk
Keepin' perfect rhythm
Make ya wanna swing along
Got it goin' on
Like Donkey Kong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3dHxAYYXhc
It's enough to get you listening to country music. :D
proudtobnotpc
03-06-2008, 08:14 AM
Without the aid of Wikipedia, I'll say that it is a booze shack where you could get likkered up and hear down and dirty blues. Probably predates country/western by decades, and also wasn't there a Rolling Stones song?
don't forget it also permissible to throw a couple of punches than when everyone get its out of their system wipe off the blood and drink some more:thumbup:
proudtobnotpc
03-06-2008, 08:30 AM
Honky tonks were rough establishments, mostly in the Deep South and Southwest, that served alcoholic beverages to working class clientele. Honky tonks sometimes also offered dancing to piano players or small bands, and sometimes were also centers of prostitution. As Chris Smith and Charles McCarron noted in their 1916 hit song "Down in Honky Tonk Town", "It's underneath the ground, where all the fun is found."-Wikipedia