Cover art for Honky Tonk Train Blues by Meade “Lux” Lewis
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This is one of the earliest “Honky Tonk” recordings, showing its powerful influence on Boogie Woogie, which would evolve over the next three decades to Rock & Roll. It contained strongly foreshadows the song that cemented “boogie-woogie” as the name of that genre, Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie, by Clarence “Pinetop” Smith, which was recorded a year later.

This song was not only a hit, but continued to be re-recorded, by Lux for the next several decades, and by others all the way up to the present time.
One obvious example is this version, by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

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1927
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