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In this episode we intend to broadcast green music: we save some electricity. No electric bass. The big doghouse or double-bass is ruling! In roots music that huge and powerful instrument sets the beat and the melodic line and sounds like a heartbeat. The doghouse, stand-up, slap bass, double-bass or whatever it’s called is the [...]

Since the American soldiers landed in Europe in 1944, the Europeans absorbed their culture through the clothes and the music they imported. Jazz, rock’n’roll and blues as well as blue jeans became well-exported American idioms. British bands of the sixties proved they could learn the blues without being raised in Mississippi and make it their [...]

In this episode we are opening the HONKY TONK LIVE mike to the County Boys a.k.a. Andy Keinath and his sidekick Peter Görz picking his Telecaster. You can hear, live in the Wueste Welle studio, those guys performing real country songs by Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck… Those southern german boys can [...]

2012 should be the last year for humanity. If we should go to Hell, we choose the nuclear option with “Uranium Rock”. Johnny Horton, Robert Johnson and Rufus Thomas are standing out of the grave. You will see Tiger Men. There will be Juke Joint Pimps with nuclear slide guitars. You will hear Robert Johnson [...]

22.12.2011 – Honky Tonk Live Christmas Church Service

Posted: 22nd December 2011 by Steffan Rock in Podcast
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Our traditional Christmas Church Service is provided by Reverend Elvis Presley with Christmas classics and Gospel songs to absolve us, Honky-Tonkers, from all of our sins in 2011 and to bless us for a new year in the 3rd Millenium.

In this episode we’re having a look back on what year 2011 brought, the artists that we discovered and re-discovered at HONKY TONK LIVE : Hank Williams alive again, George Thorogood going back to Chicago, John Mellencamp recording in mono with T-Bone Burnett placing the mike, the Earle family business, Bob Wayne leaving his job [...]

In this episode we are trying to rescue roots music from pop no-taste with the help from Batman and Robin backed-up by Link Wray. We are boarding for a fantastic journey from the blues with George Thorogood and his Destroyers, through bluegrass, country music with artists writing further Hank Williams songs, rockabilly with the Stray [...]

In this episode open with Steve Earle, we are discovering Bob Dylan’s controversial project “The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams”. This tribute to one of the most influential songwriters in country and popular music takes unfinished songs to write them further and record them with the collaboration of various artists like Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, [...]

Welcome on the new HONKYTONKLIVE.COM !

Posted: 5th November 2011 by Steffan Rock in Podcast

This is the brand new layout for HONKYTONKLIVE.COM in order to bring a more dynamic content. You can subsribe to the podcast here at www.honkytonklive.com/podcast. Have fun, stay tuned ! Steffan Rock

This episode is 100% electric blues opening with George Thorogood sounding today like he sounded more than 30 years ago. A 91-year-old bluesman called after an old car model is still playing the blues in the 3rd Millenium. A “Little Red Rooster” running in the barnyard between the Doors and an old Ford while Johnny [...]