Bars, pubs, saloons and taverns. See also alcohol.
Tom Waits' "(Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night"
Dim Lights Thick Smoke and Loud Loud Music - Flying Burrito Brothers / Porter Wagoner / Vern Gosdin
Harris And The Mare - Stan Rogers
Bartender Blues - James Taylor
Old Blind Dogs: "Star of the Bar" on the Four on the Floor CD
Rancho Deluxe: "Pine Street Saloon" on True Freedom
Joni Mitchell "Raised on Robbery" in the lounge of the Empire Hotel, but they're drinking
Tom Russell it's at the bar in the ballroom, but: "No Telling" on Indians, Cowboys Horses Dogs
Loudon Wainwright III - "Down Drinkin' At The Bar"
The Kinks \ Lola
Merle Haggard's "The Bottle Let Me Down" ("each night I leave the barroom when it's over / not feelin' any pain at closing time...")
John Lilly performs "Haunted Honky Tonk" on the CD of the same name
"Close Up the Honky Tonks" - by Buck Owens and others
Larry Sparks, Bluegrass Cardinals: Girl At the Crossroads Bar
JD Crowe & the New South: Back To the Barrooms
Jimmy Martin: Drink Up & Go Home
Jimmy Martin: Ocean Of Diamonds
Del McCoury: Hey, Hey Bartender
Flatt & Scruggs: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)
Stanley Brothers: The Girl Behind the Bar (aka Wayside Tavern)
Stanley Brothers: Gonna Paint the Town (aka Goin' Honky-Tonkin')
Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann
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