{"id":3229,"date":"2015-02-02T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=3229"},"modified":"2015-02-02T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T22:03:09","slug":"the-roots-of-ernest-tubb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/02\/02\/the-roots-of-ernest-tubb\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots of Ernest Tubb"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nWmbFXJDHrM<\/p>\n

As I was reading Christine Warren\u2019s Honky Tonk Debutante<\/em>, I made a mental note at her mention of Ernest Tubb, the man credited with starting honky-tonk music. Tubb, nicknamed \u201cThe Texas Troubadour\u201d, had an incredible influence on the sound of traditional country music, and as Warren stated, his hit song \u201cWalking the Floor Over You\u201d was the first honky-tonk hit and started the golden era of honky-tonk music. While Ernest Tubb is an important figure for every country music fan, he is especially notable for me. Before Tubb gained worldwide fame and recognition, he got his start in my hometown, good old San Angelo, Texas.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who haven\u2019t heard of San Angelo, it is located right smack dab in the middle of Texas, far isolated from any interstates or big cities. It never rains (at one point last year we had just 15 months left in our water supply), and there really isn\u2019t anything to do for entertainment. It\u2019s a typical West Texas oil town.<\/p>\n

One thing there is to do in San Angelo is see live music. Texas Country artists like\u00a0Aaron Watson\u00a0and Kyle Park are always playing at Midnight Rodeo, and local singers play at bars around town. Famous artists like George Strait and Lee Ann Rimes used to play at the San Angelo Rodeo before they made it big, so there is also lots of history in the city’s music scene.<\/p>\n

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San Angelo country singer Case Hardin<\/p><\/div>\n

But as I mentioned above, San Angelo\u2019s real claim to fame is the place that gave Ernest Tubb his start. Tubb moved to San Angelo from San Antonio in 1939, and was given a daily radio show on a local station, where he was paid $2.50 a day. The wage for the radio show wasn\u2019t enough to support his family, so he also drove a beer delivery truck for $2 a day, plus 8 cents for each beer sold. In addition to his two jobs, he was known to set up on the street corner to play his guitar and sing for passersby. Tubb liked San Angelo so much that he wrote the song \u201cBeautiful San Angelo\u201d. Just four years after moving to San Angelo, Tubb was a member of the Grand Ole Opry and in the middle of a career which saw him collaborate with singers like Loretta Lynn, and even garnered him a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Tubb was instrumental in the sound of honky-tonk music, and none of it would have been possible without his short time in San Angelo.<\/p>\n

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Ernest Tubb’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nWmbFXJDHrM As I was reading Christine Warren\u2019s Honky Tonk Debutante, I made a mental note at her mention of Ernest Tubb, the man credited with starting honky-tonk music. Tubb, nicknamed \u201cThe Texas Troubadour\u201d, had an incredible influence on the sound … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8,3,14,18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-country","category-honky-tonk","category-live-music","category-reflection","category-texas","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3229\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}