--- title: Henry Horenstein's Photographs of Country Music Stars description: From the Honky Tonk bars of Boston to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Henry Horenstein's photographs of the country music scene and its stars capture both the golden age of the genre and its newest incarnations. canonical: https://time.com/52511/henry-horensteins-honky-tonk/ author: Matthew Leifheit article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2012-09-05T18:00:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:41:58.353Z article:section: World og:title: Henry Horenstein's Photographs of Country Music Stars og:description: From the Honky Tonk bars of Boston to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Henry Horenstein's photographs of the country music scene and its stars capture both the golden age of the genre and its newest incarnations. og:url: https://time.com/52511/henry-horensteins-honky-tonk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57aa63f97c47c480/6986895f3617601d7b90b57c/honkytonk01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: Honky Tonk og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Henry Horenstein's Photographs of Country Music Stars twitter:description: From the Honky Tonk bars of Boston to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Henry Horenstein's photographs of the country music scene and its stars capture both the golden age of the genre and its newest incarnations. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57aa63f97c47c480/6986895f3617601d7b90b57c/honkytonk01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Henry Horenstein's Honky Tonk > Sponsored content. 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So profound was his respect for her music, Horenstein wondered why Parton often dressed in over-the-top costumes for performances. Her answer was simple: “People don’t come out to see me looking like everybody else.” “I thought it was good creative advice for everyone,” Horenstein said. From the early 1970s to the present, Henry Horenstein has recorded onto black and white film the disappearing world of traditional country music. These pictures were collected into a monograph called Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music, which will be published in its second edition by W. W. Norton & Company this month. After studying history at the University of Chicago, Horenstein moved back to his native New England to develop his photographic work at the Rhode Island School of Design under the instruction of legendary photographer Harry Callahan. Horenstein knew that he wanted to use the camera as a tool for recording history, but found himself looking for a place to begin. Callahan gave him the seemingly simple direction to photograph the people and places he was naturally drawn to. Horenstein was raised on country music and was a regular at country venues, called ‘honky tonks,’ around Boston. So he began to make pictures in these lively establishments, capturing images of music performances, dancing and a touch of debauchery. Even if he got lousy pictures, Callahan told him, he was sure to have a good time. Soon after starting his project Horenstein was hired by Rounder Records, a label that featured many of the leading country artists of the day, to shoot album covers. In Nashville he took pictures at the Ryman Auditorium during Grand Ole Opry shows and spent nights photographing bands and patrons at Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, a rambunctious honky tonk and infamous local institution. These pictures show country music at a turning point. As the United States transitioned from a primarily rural to a more suburban society, country music acts with traditional ties to “hillbilly” culture went out of style. Purists questioned the direction country music was headed in the 1980s, pointing to the influence of 1970s rock and roll. “People still wanted it to be country because that’s what they grew up on and they liked it, but they wanted it to be more softened, a little more generic,” says Horenstein. Loretta Lynn, who is among the famous faces pictured in Horenstein’s book, expressed her faith in the contemporary music scene to TIME. “Country music ain’t country anymore, but that’s ok,” she said. ” Used to be country music was not just a sound but also a life. An artist brought who they were and where they were from to their music. It defined them and their songs. But everything changes and we grow. I guess now with folks getting to hear so many kinds of music it’s all mixed together. Remember how people didn’t like when Elvis came along? Could you imagine no Elvis? There are some great singers out there and great songs.” Horenstein’s photographs preserve a time many consider to be the golden age of the genre. Today country music is undergoing a renaissance. Bands whose sounds harken back to the golden age of country such as Old Crow Medicine show and Gillan Welch fill stadium-sized venues. This revival has come with renewed enthusiasm for Horenstein’s country music work. The second edition of Honky Tonk includes pictures documenting country music from 1972 until 2011, and is accompanied by two gallery exhibitions. The book is a nostalgic ramble though backcountry hideaways and big city venues where footlights and camera flashilluminate faces from the past and present alike. To borrow a phrase from country great Ernest Tubb, Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music reminds us to “Say goodbye like we said hello, in a friendly kind of way.” _Henry Horenstein’s_ Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music _is available this month by_ [_W. W. Norton & Company_](http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?ID=24798)_._ _Photographs from this series are on view at_ [_ClampArt_](http://clampart.com/) _in New York City from Sept. 6 to Oct. 13 and in Boston at_ [_Caroll and Sons_](http://www.carrollandsons.net/) _from Sept. 5 to Oct. 27._  Dolly Parton, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Leaving the Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Jerry Lee Lewis, Ramada Inn, Boston, 1976 Henry Horenstein  Waylon Jennings, Performance Center, Cambridge, Mass., 1976 Henry Horenstein  Waiting Backstage, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Joni Twitty, Backstage, Annapolis, Md., 1975 Henry Horenstein  Conway Twitty, Backstage, Annapolis, Md., 1975 Henry Horenstein  Last Call, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Nashville, 1974 Henry Horenstein  Lilly Brothers Reunion Show, Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, 1978 Henry Horenstein  Loretta Lynn, Backstage, Annapolis, Md., 1975 Henry Horenstein  Porter Wagoner, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Playing for Tips, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Nashville, 1974 Henry Horenstein  Connie Smith, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Doc Watson, Performance Center, Cambridge, Mass., 1974 Henry Horenstein  Patron, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Nashville, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Lester Flatt, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, 1972 Henry Horenstein  Sons of the Pioneers with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Branson, Mo., 1997 Henry Horenstein  Lovers, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Nashville, 1975 Henry Horenstein  Jukebox, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, Nashville, 1972 Henry Horenstein ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/52511/henry-horensteins-honky-tonk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/52511/henry-horensteins-honky-tonk/"},"headline":"Henry Horenstein's Honky Tonk","datePublished":"2012-09-05T18:00:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:41:58.353Z","description":"From the Honky Tonk bars of Boston to Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, Henry Horenstein's photographs of the country music scene and its stars capture both the golden age of the genre and its newest incarnations.","url":"https://time.com/52511/henry-horensteins-honky-tonk/","keywords":["LightBox","Nashville","country music","Out There"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57aa63f97c47c480/6986895f3617601d7b90b57c/honkytonk01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matthew Leifheit","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matthew-leifheit/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt57aa63f97c47c480/6986895f3617601d7b90b57c/honkytonk01.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Honky Tonk","caption":"Dolly Parton, Symphony Hall, Boston, 1972","creditText":"Henry Horenstein","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-lightbox/","name":"LightBox"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/52511/henry-horensteins-honky-tonk/","name":"Henry Horenstein's Honky Tonk"}}]}] ```