{"id":209600,"date":"2025-03-25T10:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/?p=209600"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:07:17","slug":"scoot-boots-at-austins-iconic-honky-tonks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/scoot-boots-at-austins-iconic-honky-tonks","title":{"rendered":"Scoot Boots at Austin\u2019s Iconic Honky-Tonks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Austin, Texas<br><strong>When:<\/strong> year-round<br><strong>If you like: <\/strong>music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why you should go: <\/strong>Originally born in rural dance halls among Czech, German, and Polish settlers, Austin\u2019s \u201chonky-tonk two-step\u201d is a swingier version of its traditional counterpart\u2014well suited, with its malleable style, to crowded city dive bars. In South Austin, <a href=\"http:\/\/samstownpointatx.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sam\u2019s Town Point<\/strong><\/a> offers wood-paneled walls, buckets of Shiner, and what owner (and blues-rock musician) Ramsay Midwood calls a \u201cpeopled by the people\u201d atmosphere. In East Austin, <a href=\"http:\/\/thewhitehorseaustin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>the White Horse<\/strong><\/a> sees so much nightly boot scootin\u2019 that the checkered dance-floor tiles have worn clean off. That doesn\u2019t stop dancers young and old from stepping, spinning, and swinging to nightly live sets by local musicians Blake Whitmire, Beth Chrisman, and Armadillo Road, among others. At the White Horse or <a href=\"http:\/\/sagebrushtexas.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sagebrush<\/strong><\/a>, newbies can take lessons from local pros Beth Coffey, Eric Moreno, or Vanessa Vaught. Once you lean into your first rock step, it\u2019s easy to understand what longtime dancers know well: The honky-tonk two-step leaves little room for the anxieties of our daily lives. \u201cIt\u2019s just romantic,\u201d says Denis O\u2019Donnell, who cofounded the White Horse and Sagebrush. \u201cAll that spinning. I look at it like the way the planets spin around. It\u2019s love. It\u2019s the gravity of love.\u201d<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>G&amp;G tip:<\/strong> Let the charming vocals and country twang of the Sentimental Family Band\u2014who frequently performs at all three of the aforementioned venues\u2014transport you to the days of Patsy Cline and Conway Twitty.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rowdy, romantic Texas pastime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":209601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-03-25T14:07:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"c2f92c41-125f-4800-a477-b2cd8e5141aa","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-03-25T14:07:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwvksQRJfSACkd7LNjlFBqg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1785],"tags":[204,30482,251,619,30501],"authors":[30078],"issue":[],"recipe-type":[],"class_list":["post-209600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-music","tag-southern-bucket-list","tag-texas","tag-travel","tag-year-round","authors-ashleigh-bell-pedersen"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Scoot Boots at Austin\u2019s Iconic Honky-Tonks &#8211; 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