Walkin.

Ernest Tubb died September 6, 1984. Hailing from Crisp Texas, son of a sharecropper, he was a fan of Jimmie Rogers. He spent the long hours out in the fields singing and learning to yodel. He learned to play guitar too and by the time he was a teenager was getting gigs in the towns around Crisp like San Antonio.

Oddly enough it was a DEAD Jimmie Rogers that got him his first recording contract. He had written to his widow asking for an autographed picture in 1936. This started a friendship that helped him get a shot at an RCA recording contract. Nothing panned out with RCA but in 1940 he signed with Decca and after several flops hit it huge with Walking the Floor Over You.

He had a low keyed delivery, honest voice (frequently enough off key to make even him cringe) and reputation for surrounding himself with strong musicians. He's quoted as saying that men loved his songs because whenever they came on the jukebox they claimed they "could sing better than that" and were probably right.