December 8 - Floyd Tillman, early honky-tonk singer of the 1940s (d. 2003).

Her father was a trucker who moonlighted as a honky-tonk singer, and her mother worked at an area country music station.

When the album was released, critics compared Case to honky-tonk singers like Lynn and Patsy Cline, and to rockabilly pioneer Wanda Jackson, particularly in her vocal timbre.

He also began playing bass with George Jones, who was then an unknown honky-tonk singer.

And there were hardy, nonstop-touring musicians like the honky-tonk singer Delbert McClinton and the reggae band Toots and the Maytals.

But in 1996 one of her fans, the honky-tonk singer Rosie Flores, sought her out for duets, and Ms. Jackson reclaimed her crown as rockabilly queen.

She was a hard honky-tonk singer for the first half of the '60s and rarely strayed from the genre.

He wrote the song when he was just 19, and it was picked up by Price in the spring of 1958, when Price was country music's predominant honky-tonk singer and stylist.

Lefty Frizzell (born 3/31/1928) was a honky-tonk singer, who set the style for generations of vocalists that f..

Like a honky-tonk singer, he dropped toward the baritone end of his range, and he mixed the smooth projection of a Latin sonero with the growls and bluesy inflections of country.