[The Deej] HONKY TONKIN' @ Quarry House TONIGHT

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TONIGHT!
at the QUARRY HOUSE
HONKY TONKIN' makes their deej debut

QUARRY HOUSE TAVERN
8401 georgia ave, SILVER SPRING, MD 
http://myspace.com/quarryhouse
301/587-8350
$5 at the door
music at 9pm
 
MORE: from Wiki


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. In some rougher tonks the prostitutes and their customers would have sex standing up clothed on the dance floor while the music played. Honky tonk bars were also prone to bar brawls due to the nature of most of its customers who were usually bikers and truckers passing by. Such establishments flourished in less reputable neighborhoods, often outside of the law. 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."
[edit] Honky tonk music
The first genre of music to be commonly known as honky tonk music was a style of piano playing related to ragtime, but emphasizing rhythm more than melody or harmony, since the style evolved in response to an environment where the pianos were often poorly cared for, tending to be out of tune and having some nonfunctioning keys. (Hence an out-of-tune upright piano is sometimes called a honky-tonk piano, e.g. in the General MIDI set of standard electronic music sounds.)
Such honky tonk music was an important influence on the formation of the boogie woogie piano style, as indicated by Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 record "Honky Tonk Music" (recalling the music of his youth, see quotation below), and Meade "Lux" Lewis's big hit "Honky Tonk Train Blues" which Lewis recorded many times from 1927 into the 1950s and was covered by many other musicians from the 1930s on, including Oscar Peterson and Keith Emerson.
The 12-bar blues instrumental "Honky Tonk" by the Bill Doggett Combo with a sinuous saxophone line and driving, slow beat, was an early rock and roll hit. New Orleans native Antoine "Fats" Domino was another legendary honky tonk piano man, whose "Blueberry Hill" (originally recorded by singing cowboy Gene Autry) and "Walkin' to New Orleans" became hits on the popular music charts.
During the pre-World War II years, the music industry began to refer to the Honky Tonk music being played from Texas and Oklahoma to the West Coast as Hillbilly music. More recently it has come to refer primarily to the primary sound in country music, which developed in Nashville as Western Swing became accepted there. Originally, it featured the guitar, fiddle, string bass and steel guitar (an importation from Hawaiian folk music), and is one of the early sources of electric guitar in country music. The vocals were originally rough and nasal, like singer-songwriters Floyd Tillman and Hank Williams, but later developed a clear and sharp sound with singers like George Jones. Lyrics tended to focus on working-class life, with frequently tragic themes of lost love, adultery, loneliness, alcoholism, and self-pity. Ted Daffin's "Born To Lose" is the prototype song.


UPCOMING SHOWS:

4-5 HONKY TONKIN' at Quarry House -- a new act for the deej!
4-11 the OSCILLATORS at domku -- would we have them every month if they sucked? NO! 
4-19 the OXYMORONS at Quarry House -- at last, the deej presents DC's rock standard-bearers!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!

bartender emeritus JOE MILLS III is appearing in a local play this month.  we highly recommmend that deej people check out the man behind the voice behind the bar....READ MORE:

The American Century Theater presents Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize winning drama That Championship Season, which director Ed Bishop has re-imagined with an African American cast. The play focuses on the reunion of four middle-aged men with their basketball coach twenty years after winning the championship, but who end up dwelling on the disappointments and failings of their lives. To Bishop “this production of That Championship Season will break new ground as we see the loss of hopes and dreams from a different perspective.” TACT Artistic Director Jack Marshall adds, "Casting a play can often be done just as a gimmick, meant to draw in audiences without advancing the play. But in the case of this play, the African-American cast cracks open the script and releases provoking questions and confrontations."

The cast of That Championship Season includes Omar A. Bah, Morgan J. Hall, Ron Lincoln, Joseph A. Mills III, and Elliott Moffitt.

That Championship Season runs March 30-April 28, at Theater II, Gunston Arts, Center, 2700 S. Lang Street, Arlington, VA. Wednesday-Saturday evenings at 8 and 2:30 PM matinees on April 1, 15, 21, and 28. Tickets are $23-$29, with discounts for students, seniors, and groups. Call 703.553.8782 or visit: www.americancentury.org.