Amoeba Music

By Jonny Whiteside

           Singer-guitarist Ernest Tubb was one of country music's most essential and groundbreaking forces. Widely known as the Texas Troubadour, Tubb was a straight up honky-tonk pioneer whose realistic, modern approach was comparable in impact and influence to Hank Williams. Significantly, Tubb preceded Williams by several years and with the 1941 classic, "Walking the Floor Over You," which sold an at the time staggering 400,000 plus copies within months (and was quickly covered by no less a pop icon than Bing Crosby), Tubb established himself as a country music mainstay. An innovative musician whose stinging electric guitar's interplay with a... Read More

City Of Origin:

Crisp, Texas, United States

Genre:

Country, Honky Tonk, Traditional Country

Birthdate:

02/09/1914

Death date:

09/06/1984