• Battle of the Bands

    Honky Cat #BoTB showdown

    Hello, Kittens & Dawgs!  Back in the summer…yeah, it’s nearly a faded memory but anyhow while searching for songs for a 4M prompt, I stumbled on the 1972 Billboard Top 10 hit,  Honky Cat (reference only) that Sir Elton released. I don’t know why it never registered until now but Bernie Taupin wrote about a country boy (aka Honky Cat) experiencing city life which very well might be a direct correlation to Taupin being raised on a farm but what throws my brain is his use of ‘redneck’, a term that’s almost exclusively used about uneducated southern Americans abroad and in…