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Honky Tonk is not exactly a forgotten world, as all over America there still exists a network of clubs and bars that cater for acts and audiences who still want their music served up as real deal country music.

The photographs show why some acts were pushed away from the honky-tonks and towards the more lucrative cross-over cosmopolitan circuit that the industry favoured and sought. Yet these people were the lifeblood of the music, seen in such down-home venues as Tootsie's Orchard Lounge on Lower Broadway in Nashville or Hillbilly Ranch in Boston. Many appear to be living and working at subsistence level and the music of the honky-tonks was their outlet and way of letting off steam. It is doubtful the audience, sounds and looks that the Music Row major labels and modern country radio court today would want to be associated with the people represented in these pages - even back in the day. It's interesting to note that the most recent photographs in the book are of neo-traditional artists like Bill Kirchen and Dale Watson, photographed in 2011 the earliest pictures in the book are from 1972. He lives and works in Boston.Horenstein's photography underlines again just how far country music has moved from its roots. Horenstein is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he has taught for more than twenty years. The first digital textbook by legendary photography teacher Henry Horenstein, Digital Photography is the best guide yet for aspiring digital photographers, essential both for photographers transitioning from film to digital and those learning the art of photography for the first time.Ībout the Author Henry Horenstein is a widely published and exhibited professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books, including the classic texts Black & White Photography and Beyond Basic Photography, and monographs such as Honky Tonk, Animalia, Show and Close Relations.

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