Dive Bars and Honky Tonks

Problems, we all got ’em
Let ’em sink down to the bottom
Doesn’t matter who or where you are
We’re gonna spend the weekend
In the deep end
Of a dive bar

Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton

Dive bars are difficult to define – but you know when you are in one.

There will be no pretence. Doesn’t mean to say it’s not fancy, but it may be fancy from the last 30 years or more.

Christmas lights all year round and 70’s movie posters

Doesn’t need to be dirty…but good chance it is.

Food ..? Maybe. A burger. Some fried pickles.

Drinks – likely simple and in bottles or shot glasses.

Entertainment . You’ve got the pool table.

A juke box in the corner with records unchanged for at least 20 years… probably more.

If there is a band playing old country … dancin’ the two step … maybe you’ve found yourself in a honky tonk.


New Orleans

Adairs, Dallas. Tx




“Tornado in a Trailer park” Doublewide. Dallas





New Orleans

The Truckyard. Dallas


Doublewide. Dallas. Tx


And I keep my Christmas lights on
On my front porch all year long
And I know all the words to every Tanya Tucker song”
-Gretchen Wilson, Redneck Woman

Its 5 o’clock somewhere” The Truckyard. Dallas. Tx



Singlewide. Dallas. Tx “half the trailer, all the trash”

Lakewood landing, Dallas. Tx



Upside down Santas, Doublewide. Dallas. Tx

Singlewide , Dallas. Tx

Singlewide. Dallas Tx

Great Burgers. Lakewood Landing. Dallas

The Goat. Dallas. Tx

JP Harris, The White Horse. Austin Tx


Adairs, Dallas. Tx


James Hands, Broken Spoke. Austin. Texas

Adairs, Dallas


Double wide, Dallas


Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms…” The Goat. Dallas. Tx

I’d rather sing a sad song than eat” – George Jones

Lakewood Landing. Dallas. Tx



Port of Call, New Orleans