Info:
Artist: Various
Album:  Honky-Tonk Essentials
Year: 2021
Genre: Country
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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Named for the no-nonsense saloons that were its natural habitat, honky-tonk music emerged in the ‘40s country continuum as a disruption analogous to the first-gen rock 'n' roll that appeared a decade later—a hard-driving, literally electrified sound powering songs about drinking, cheating, fighting, and falling in lust. The honky-tonk wave led by the likes of Lefty Frizzell and Ernest Tubb displaced the comparatively strait-laced sounds of early country just as rock's initial onslaught in the early ‘50s would chase off buttoned-down, family-friendly pop. And when the "Hillbilly Shakespeare" Hank Williams hit the scene, honky-tonk had its Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan rolled into one. Faithful followers of the honky-tonk creed carried the torch forward through the generations, with neo-traditional artists like Randy Travis and Alan Jackson bringing elements of the sound back into the country music mainstream in the late ‘80s and early '90s.

Tracklist:
01. Ernest Tubb - Walking The Floor Over You
02. Faron Young - I've Got Five Dollars And It's Saturday Night
03. Kitty Wells - It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels
04. Ray Price - Heartaches By the Number
05. Webb Pierce - There Stands the Glass
06. Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)
07. Patsy Cline, The Jordanaires - Walkin' After Midnight
08. Hank Thompson, The Brazos - A Six Pack To Go
09. Gary Stewart - She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)
10. Hank Williams, The Drifting Cowboys - Move It On Over
11. Hank Snow And His Rainbow Ranch Boys - I'm Movin' On (Remastered)
12. Johnny Paycheck - A-11
13. Joe & Rose Lee Maphis - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
14. Lefty Frizzell - If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time
15. Jean Shepard - Slippin' Away
16. Jerry Lee Lewis - You Win Again
17. Floyd Tillman - I Love You So Much It Hurts
18. Faron Young - Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
19. Carl Smith - There's a Bottle Where She Used to Be
20. Rose Maddox, The Vern Williams Band - Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down
21. Loretta Lynn - Wine, Women And Song
22. Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson - A Good Hearted Woman
23. Hank Williams, The Drifting Cowboys - Lovesick Blues
24. Webb Pierce - Wondering
25. Maddox Brothers, Rose Maddox - I Want to Live and Love
26. Wynn Stewart - Another Day, Another Dollar
27. George Jones - Honky Tonk Song
28. Ernest Tubb - Waltz Across Texas
29. Buck Owens & His Buckaroos - Close Up the Honky Tonks
30. Jean Shepard - I Thought Of You
31. Ray Price - City Lights
32. Jerry Lee Lewis - She Even Woke Me Up To Say Goodbye
33. Loretta Lynn - You're Lookin' At Country (Single Version)
34. Johnny Paycheck - High Heels And No Soul
35. Merle Haggard - Ramblin' Fever
36. Rose Maddox - Don't Bother to Cry
37. Dwight Yoakam - Little Ways
38. Charlie Walker - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down (Single Version)
39. Patsy Cline, The Jordanaires - I Fall To Pieces
40. Moe Bandy - Honky Tonk Amnesia
41. Speedy West - Speedin' West
42. Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, Rose Maddox - Mental Cruelty
43. Johnny Horton - Honky-Tonk Man (Album Version)
44. Hank Snow And His Rainbow Ranch Boys - I Don't Hurt Anymore (Remastered)
45. Kitty Wells - Searching (For Someone Like You)
46. Johnny Bush, Dale Watson - I Gotta Get Drunk
47. Jerry Lee Lewis - Crazy Arms
48. Jean Shepard - Second Fiddle (To An Old Guitar)
49. Ray Price - Release Me
50. Ernest Tubb - Thanks A Lot