![]() ![]() Riley to such bona-fide C&W stars as Conway Twitty and Porter Wagoner. Horenstein captured the extremes of the country-western world over the years, from the Hee Haw familiars onstage at the Grand Ole Opry to old-time cult favorites like the Blue Sky Boys from seventies country-pop meteors like Jeannie C. Seeing the photographs in the new edition of Honky Tonk published together, I finally got it-I’d been admiring these pictures of bluegrass pickers and hillbilly crooners for years without realizing their author. ![]() I knew his name at the time to be vaguely familiar from other contexts, though I hadn’t yet made the connection to the body of work he’d done beginning in the 1970s of the world of country music. I first noticed the work of Henry Horenstein when he published his 1987 book, Racing Days, a photographic diary in gritty black and white, compiled largely in the now mostly defunct northeastern thoroughbred circuit. Dolly Parton, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA, 1972. ![]()
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