The storied dance hall, where the Sex Pistols and Merle Haggard once shared a marquee, has undergone a renovation with an eye toward honoring the past.
John T. Floore’s Country Store in Helotes is a honky-tonker’s honky-tonk, a veritable institution of Texas music. The dance hall’s walls are covered with photographs of the legends that have graced its stage: Elvis Presley, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Patsy Cline, B.B. King, Ernest Tubb, Bob Dylan, Merle Haggard,
One lucky night of dancing with the masters unlocked a new appreciation of the craft.
We traveled 3,000 miles to find the state’s best little country joints. Welcome to neon nirvana.
A Corpus Christi man pines for the days of two-stepping on those long wooden planks.
Appreciations by current and former staffers who know them all too well.
In this 2011 documentary, filmmaker Annie Silverstein chronicles the scene at Sefcik Dance Hall in Seaton, one of the last small-town Texas dance halls remaining.
A New Braunfels man thinks that Texas's oldest dance hall deserves a little more respect.
The honky-tonk celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary with two Texas country icons.
Reflections on the penultimate Texas stop of Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett’s acoustic tour.
Press your jeans, pull on your boots, shine up your buckle, and come along on this two-stepping tour of classic country dance halls, from Tom Sefcik Hall, in Seaton, to Club Westerner, in Victoria.
When country hunk Billy Ray Cyrus his megahit “Achy Breaky Heart” in 1992, country dancing—or at least a modern version of it—returned to vogue. Cyrus’ novelty song was released with a video that showed a line dance specifically created for the song, and—in a flashback to the Urban Cowboy craze of
Forget about waltzing across Texas. Let’s two-step instead.
If it’s Saturday night and you just got paid, you’re a fool about your money and don’t try to save—go dancing.
