title: Honky Tonk Attitude
text: # Honky Tonk Attitude
  
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  Honky Tonk Attitude is the third studio album by American country music artist Joe Diffie. Released in 1993, it features the singles "Honky Tonk Attitude", "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)", "John Deere Green", and "In My Own Backyard", which respectively reached #5, #3, #5, and #19 on the Hot Country Songs charts. The song "If I Had Any Pride Left at All" was later recorded by John Berry on his 1995 album Standing on the Edge, from which it was released as a single.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Kenny Bell – acoustic guitar
  * Lee Bogan – background vocals
  * Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
  * Walt Cunningham – keyboards
  * Joe Diffie – lead vocals, background vocals
  * Stuart Duncan – fiddle
  * Paul Franklin – steel guitar
  * Rob Hajacos – fiddle
  * Yvonne Hodges – background vocals
  * Jim Hoke – saxophone
  * John Hughey – steel guitar
  * Bill Hullett – acoustic guitar
  * Carl Jackson – background vocals
  * Pierce Jackson – background vocals
  * Brent Mason – electric guitar
  * Tim Mensy – acoustic guitar, background vocals
  * Kenny Mims – electric guitar
  * Kim Morrison – background vocals
  * Larry Paxton – bass guitar
  * Dave Pomeroy – bass guitar
  * Matt Rollings – keyboards
  * John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
  * Hurshel Wiginton – background vocals
  * Lonnie Wilson – drums
  
  Additional background vocals on "Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)" performed by the "Epic Proportion Choir".
  
  