Ernest Tubb
Subtitle: the Texas troubadour
By: Ronnie Pugh.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: Tubb, Ernest, 1914-; Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
Description: 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, one 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 Richly illustrated with almost a hundred photographs, many of which are rare unpublished shots from private.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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-360), discography (p. [361]-437), and index.
Table of contents: title: PREFACE
pagenum: viii; title: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
pagenum: xi; label: 1
title: FAMILY AND EARLY LIFE
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: JIMMIE RODGERS
pagenum: 9; label: 3
title: SAN ANTONIO DAYS"BLUE_EYED ELAINE" AND JIMMIE'S WIFE"
pagenum: 19; label: 4
title: BLUEBIRD RECORDS AND A TOUR
pagenum: 29; label: 5
title: DETOURS
pagenum: 39; label: 6
title: "SWELL SAN ANGELO"
pagenum: 47; label: 7
title: DECCA RECORDS: THE FIRST TWO SESSIONS
pagenum: 54; label: 8
title: FORT WORTH DAYS
pagenum: 61; label: 9
title: MOVIES AND PACKAGE SHOWS
pagenum: 73; label: 10
title: THE FIRST YEAR IN NASHVILLE
pagenum: 86; label: 11
title: RECORDS, RADIO, AND FAN CLUBS
pagenum: 96; label: 12
title: THE GREAT POPULARITY
pagenum: 107; label: 13
title: A YEAR OF MILESTONES
pagenum: 120; label: 14
title: THE FIGHT FOR RESPECTABILITY
pagenum: 131; label: 15
title: ONE THE PERSONAL SIDE: THE LATE 1940S WATERSHED
pagenum: 138; label: 16
title: A HELPFUL HAND
pagenum: 150; label: 17
title: OUT OF THE DOLDRUMS: THE COMEBACK OF 1949
pagenum: 159; label: 18
title: GOOD SONGS AND GOOD TIMES
pagenum: 168; label: 19
title: A TOUGH BUT MEMORABLE YEAR
pagenum: 179; label: 20
title: CHANGING TIMES
pagenum: 195; label: 21
title: THE GOOD THAT MEN DO
pagenum: 208; label: 22
title: MORE TOUGH TIMES: ROCK AND ROLL
pagenum: 216; label: 23
title: YEARS OF TRANSITION
pagenum: 227; label: 24
title: THE GREAT BAND: THE TROUBADOUR CHAPTER
pagenum: 243; label: 25
title: THE LAST GOOD YEARS
pagenum: 250; label: 26
title: LORETTA, A GOLD RECORD, THE HALL OF FAME
pagenum: , AND A TV SHOW | 266; label: 27
title: DECLINE SETS IN
pagenum: 273; label: 28
title: THE END OF LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS
pagenum: 286; label: 29
title: A LEGEND WITH A LEGACY
pagenum: 295; label: 30
title: THE CURTAIN FALLS
pagenum: 306; label: 31
title: A SUMMING UP: LEGACIES - LASTING AND OTHERWISE
pagenum: 318; title: NOTES
pagenum: 327; title: DISCOGRAPHY
pagenum: 361; title: INDEX
pagenum: 439