The Resource Ernest Tubb : the Texas troubadour, Ronnie Pugh
Ernest Tubb : the Texas troubadour, Ronnie Pugh
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- Summary
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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, 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 Richly illustrated with almost a hundred photographs, many of which are rare unpublished shots from private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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Ernest Tubb : the Texas troubadour
- Title
- Ernest Tubb
- Title remainder
- the Texas troubadour
- Statement of responsibility
- Ronnie Pugh
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- 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
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Pugh, Ronnie
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ML420.T87
- LC item number
- P84 1996
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
- discographies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Country musicians
- Country musicians
- Tubb, Ernest
- Label
- Ernest Tubb : the Texas troubadour, Ronnie Pugh
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-360), discography (pages [361]-437), and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 34517556
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 456 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822318590
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96007918
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Ernest Tubb : the Texas troubadour, Ronnie Pugh
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-360), discography (pages [361]-437), and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 34517556
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xii, 456 pages
- Isbn
- 9780822318590
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 96007918
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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