roadhouse
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The songs Stewart wrote carried the flavor of the roadhouse scene; Mr. McDonough likens one of his records to “a beer-stained telegraph from a honky-tonk foxhole.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
Some at the roadhouse rally wore cowboy hats.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
Every so often, we get a performance — at a graduation party, a county fair, a wedding, a roadhouse, a prestigious opening slot, where the crowds react as if they’re extras in a TV show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2025
On 14 December 1941, Almonds and another SAS soldier, Jock Lewes, who would be killed on a later mission, attacked an Italian roadhouse and a fort at Mersa Brega in Libya.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
It had taken Nina less than an hour to discover that most of the prison wagons passed by a roadhouse known as the Warden’s Waystation on the route to the Ice Court.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
The group performed in and around Fort Payne until 1973, when the cousins decided to pursue music full time and started working in bars and roadhouses throughout the South.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Berry puts on gigs in these far-flung roadhouses.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
As a teen-ager, Guy quit pumping gas and learned his craft in roadhouses around Baton Rouge.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 4, 2019
A far cry from the barns and roadhouses that dot this countryside, the century-old museum building would look more at home on Portland’s South Park Blocks, 100 miles west.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 17, 2017
"The Blue Horseshoe Tavern must be one of the old-time roadhouses that has had a revival of business since auto parties became popular," said Dick, as he and his brothers trudged along.
From The Rover Boys in New York Or, Saving their father's honor by Edward Stratemeyer
