Honky Tonk Attitude (song)

"Honky Tonk Attitude"
Single by Joe Diffie
from the album Honky Tonk Attitude
Released March 8, 1993
Format CD Single
Genre Country
Length 3:47
Label Epic
Writer(s) Joe Diffie, Lee Bogan
Producer Johnny Slate, Bob Montgomery
Joe Diffie singles chronology
"Not Too Much to Ask"
(w/Mary Chapin Carpenter)
(1992)		 "Honky Tonk Attitude"
(1993)		 "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)"
(1993)

"Honky Tonk Attitude" is a song co-written and recorded by Joe Diffie. It was released in March 1993 as the lead single from his album, also called Honky Tonk Attitude. The song reached the top five of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) chart and peaked at number 11 on the Canadian RPM Country Tracks chart.[1]

Contents

Content

The song is an uptempo in which the narrator states that everyone goes to the honky tonk to dance away their blues. He states that everyone needs to have a "honky tonk attitude".

Music video

The music video was directed by Richard Jernigan and premiered in early 1993.

Chart positions

"Honky Tonk Attitude" debuted on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of March 20, 1993.

Chart (1993) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks 5
Canadian RPM Country Tracks 11

References

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. ISBN 0-89820-177-2. 
Joe Diffie singles
A Thousand Winding Roads
Regular Joe
"Is It Cold in Here" · "Ships That Don't Come In" · "Next Thing Smokin'" · "Startin' Over Blues"
Honky Tonk Attitude
Third Rock from the Sun
"Third Rock from the Sun" · "Pickup Man" · "So Help Me Girl" · ""I'm in Love with a Capital 'U'" · "That Road Not Taken"
Life's So Funny
"Bigger Than the Beatles" · "C-O-U-N-T-R-Y" · "Whole Lotta Gone"
Twice Upon a Time
"This Is Your Brain" · "Something Like This" · "The Promised Land"
Greatest Hits
"Texas Size Heartache" · "Poor Me"
A Night to Remember
"A Night to Remember" · "The Quittin' Kind" · "It's Always Somethin'" · "Better Off Gone"
In Another World
"In Another World" · "This Pretender"
Tougher Than Nails
"Tougher Than Nails" · "If I Could Only Bring You Back"
Other songs
"Not Too Much to Ask" (with Mary Chapin Carpenter) · "LeRoy the Redneck Reindeer" · "Behind Closed Doors" · "Same Old Train"