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Ernest Tubb - The Texas Troubadour (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ernest Tubb - The Texas Troubadour (Paperback, New Ed)
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In this definitive biography of Ernest Tubb, Ronnie Pugh brings one
of country music's greatest performers back to center stage.
Tracing a career that began in the 1930s and continued until just a
few years before Tubb's death in 1984, Pugh presents not only the
long and legendary life of the Texas Troubadour but also an
unparalleled view of the world of country music in which Ernest
Tubb played an essential part.
Tubb began his career as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers, but stormed
the country music scene in the 1940s with a new honky tonk sound
and a string of hits that included "Walking the Floor Over You."
His innovations marked an important transition in country music to
a style and lyric in tune with modern American working people, or
at least that offered the real-life themes of hard drinking,
divorce, tough times, and ruined lives--changes that helped define
the music we recognize today as "country." A member of the Grand
Ole Opry until 1982, Tubb hosted a live radio broadcast from the
Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville for years and became one of
the first country music stars to host his own television show in
the mid-1960s. Always popular and on the road much of the time even
after his prime hit-making years had ended, he was well-known for
promoting the careers of many new performers on the rise.
Delving into fan club journals, songbooks, newspaper broadcast
logs, record company files, and hundreds of interviews, Ronnie Pugh
draws a picture of Tubb--exploring both his personal and
professional life--that is unprecedented in its intimacy, detail,
and vitality. We get a close-up view of Tubb riding the crest of
his popularity, setting the pace for Nashville, facing the
onslaught of Elvis Presley and rock 'n roll, and surviving as a
country music legend. Richly illustrated with almost a hundred
photographs, many of which are rare unpublished shots from private
collections, "Ernest Tubb" also contains a detailed and complete
sessionography, a resource that will be of continuing importance
for serious record collectors.
A biography that has been long awaited from Ronnie Pugh,
unquestionably the leading authority on Ernest Tubb, this book will
delight readers from among the fans of country music, those
interested in the history of country music or American popular
music and culture generally, and, of course, Ernest Tubb
fans.
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