by Carolyn Brown, guest blogger and author of I Love This Bar
Hello everyone! It's a pleasure to be back here at Love Passion Romance to visit about I Love This Bar
Each one of the four books is named for a hot country song. Thanks to Toby Keith for I Love This Bar
Toby Keith could have visited the Honky Tonk because he talks about my wide array of quirky characters in his song. Put your tight fittin' jeans and your boots on and come on over to Mingus, Texas, to the Honky Tonk and I'll show you around. Toby's not here tonight but we've got his "I Love This Bar" on the jukebox and it's the bar owner, Daisy O'Dell's, signature song.
Park your pickup truck out in the lot beside Jarod McElroy's and come on in. There's no cover charge and tonight we're playing music from the new jukebox. The one with all the bells and whistles, pretty flashing lights and CD's rather than old 45 records inside the bubble glass window.
Just like in the song, walking through the front door will put a big smile on your face. Tell Daisy to draw you up a draft Coors and grab a bar stool. If you're not smiling by the time you finish that beer then it's time for you to stretch out on a therapist's couch.
The Honky Tonk has its share of winners and losers. There's poor old Billy Bob dancin' the leather off his boot heels and wishin' he could talk Daisy into marryin' him. It ain't happening because she's already took a tumble with Jarod and the sparks are heatin' up the place hotter enough to blister an alligator boot so tonight Billy Bob is the loser. His brother Jim Bob is the winner of the three red haired cowboy triplets because he's already cornered a woman to take home with him for the weekend.
There's lovers, lookers, dancing girls and hookers in I Love This Bar. Meet Chigger, the tall bottle blond, who would be the Honky Tonk's resident hooker but she thinks sex is too much fun to charge for it. Shake hands with the burly bouncer, Tinker, an old Viet Nam vet who has a wicked whisper that sends anyone wanting to fight outside.
Take a look over there in the other corner at the old jukebox that plays Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline. Three songs for a quarter all night long will get you the twang of a guitar and a tinkling country piano backing up the old stars who can still sing well enough to entice the barflies off the stools and out onto the dance floor.
And drinking beer from a Mason jar ... what size do you want? Quart or pint? Or would you rather have a pitcher and six empty jars? Or maybe a galvanized milk bucket with six long necks and a scoop of ice to keep them cold while you do some line dancing to the Cotton Eyed Joe.
Bikers? Hey, Amos just came in the door wearing his black leather and dew rag. Who'd guess that through the week he runs a multi-million dollar oil company and his friends who ride Harley's with him are businessmen.
So yes, ma'am, I Love This Bar had a lot of country music inspiration in Toby's song. The whole time I was writing each book the title played on a running loop in my head. Gretchen Wilson and her asking for a big "Hell, Yeah" from the redneck girls like her inspired Hell, Yeah
Tell me, if Jarod (that would be the cowboy on the front of I Love This Bar) tapped you on the shoulder in the Honky Tonk and asked for a dance, what country song would you like to hear when you put your arms him and let him sashay around the Honky Tonk floor? Would it be from the old jukebox or the new one?
I LOVE THIS BAR BY CAROLYN BROWN—IN STORES JUNE 2010
She doesn’t need anything but her bar…
Daisy O’Dell has her hands full with hotheads and thirsty ranchers until the day one damn fine cowboy walks in and throws her whole life into turmoil…
He’s looking for a cold drink and a moment’s peace…
Instead, Jarod McElroy, finds one red hot woman. She’s just what he needs, if only he can convince her to come out from behind that bar, and come home with him…
About the Author
Carolyn Brown is an award-winning author who has published 36 historical and western romance novels for the library market, many of them bestsellers in that market. Born in Texas and raised in southern Oklahoma, Carolyn and her husband now make their home in the town of Davis, Oklahoma. For more information, please visit http://carolynlbrown.com/
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16 comments ↓
Good morning everyone,
Thank you for letting me make a stop here at Love Passion Romance on my blog tour to promote I LOVE THIS BAR. Good luck on the contest and happy reading!
Carolyn Brown
Hi, Carolyn!
Congrats on your latest release! I love your “Lucky” series, which is on my keeper shelf : )
My song choice is a Golden Oldie:
“Waltz Across Texas” by Ernest Tubb
When we dance together my world’s in disguise,
It’s a fairyland tale thats come true.
And when you look at me with those stars in your eyes, I could waltz across Texas with you.
Waltz across Texas with you in my arms,
Waltz across Texas with you.
Like a storybook ending I’m lost in your charms,
And I could waltz across Texas with you.
My heartaches and troubles are just up and gone,
The moment that you come in view.
And with your hand in mine dear I could dance on and on, and I could waltz across Texas with you.
Waltz across Texas with you in my arms,
Waltz across Texas with you.
Like a storybook ending I’m lost in your charms,
And I could waltz across Texas with you.
Wow. If Jared (the hunk on the cover) tapped me on the shoulder and asked for a dance I would love to sashay with him and listen to Clay Walker’s “she won’t be lonely long”. Very romantic on the heart and soft on the ears.
Great questions.
Virginia and Karina,
Good choices. You could hug right up to that broad chest with those two songs!
Thanks for the comments!
Carolyn Brown
Hi Carolyn,
I’d take a quart of beer, and would choose “Little Bitty” by Alan Jackson. It’s a fun song! I’m a country music fan myself, but like the newer jukebox tunes.
Hi Carolyn, glad to see you have a new release!!! I have the Lucky books but I haven’t read them yet. I’m always happy to see Western reads thriving!! I LUV the name of your book and that song. We just got Toby’s bar here but we haven’t been in it yet. They sound like fun bars!! I just enjoy country music, old or new is good. My fav right now, and my ringtone, is Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis singing ” I Told You So”. Actually any old song would do IF I was dancing with Jared!! Thanks for the contest, Sue
Susan and Sue,
I love both those songs!
Carolyn B.
Hi Carolyn, *waves*
I grew up on country music. I have to admit I love the old classics. So my Honky Tonk jukebox would be filled with oldies.
Love this cover and your books, I can’t wait to get started.
Cheers, N
That’s a hard one to answer but any song by Josh Turner or Dwight Yoakam from the new jukebox. Great giveaway!
It would be from the new one! Sideways by Dierkes Bentley for a fast one, and Melt by Rascal Flatts for a slow one
To be honest, I don’t listen to country music so I’m not familiar with too many of the songs. However, I can see myself swaying on the dance floor with Jarod while Crazy by Patsy Cline is playing on the jukebox. It’s perfect for a nice slow dance.
New JUKEBOX, playing Honky Tonk Badonkadonk. I’d love to dance with him, I’ve actually already preordered this book. But I’d still love to win it!!
Thanks! chirth7@yahoo.com
It would definitely be from an old jukebox, in a honkeytonk that has sawdust and peanut shells on the floor, and the song playing would be Boot Scootin’ Boogie by Brooks and Dunn. ^_^
My song would be Toby Keith’s “You Shouldn’t Kiss Me Like That” which is a very passionate and romantic song. Funny, in Mr. Keith’s video he, as always, puts a comedic spin to the song as if he has to make a joke out of such strong emotions. “Real men” should not be expressing longing and heartache, right?
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I think it would be from the new jukebox. I haven’t listened to much country music for awhile, but I love Tim McGraw’s Live Like Your Dying. So I would like dancing to it, even though it’s not a love song.
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