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Playboy’s Honky-Tonk Angels, 1981

Classics • August 26, 2026

This story first appeared in our January 1981 issue. It was back in the mid-Fifties that Hank Thompson, the immortal country-and-western singer-songwriter, wrote the tune “Wild Side of Life,” which includes the line “I didn’t know God made honky-tonk angels.” Well, until a few months ago, we were operating under the same delusion. Since then, […]

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