20th Century Masters The Millenium Collection: The Best Of
Ernest Tubb
Loretta Lynn
MCA Nashville, 2007
1 CD
Catalogue #: UNAS844602
EAN: 0602517231801
UPC: 602517231801
You save: 20%
Additional personnel: Loretta Lynn.
While the 20th CENTURY MASTERS discs aren't always the best place to begin exploring a given artists, when the music is as consistently classic as that found on the Ernest Tubb edition, the argument is irrelevant. These 12 songs--including "Walking the Floor Over You," "Drivin Nails in My Coffin," and "Waltz Across Texas"--are a blueprint for tear-in-your-beer, sawdust-on-the-floor, honky-tonkin' country. Anyone pondering a broken heart should have an Ernest Tubb record no more than an arm's length away, and with its bare-bones packaging and budget price, 20th CENTURY MASTERS will do just fine.
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Ernest Tubb
The first of country's honky-tonkers, Ernest Tubb came to fame in the 1940s, making famous such immortal classics as "Walking the Floor Over You," "Thanks a Lot," "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry," and innumerable others. A singer of limited range but limitless geniality, not to mentione a killer backing band, Tubb was adored by country audiences for the better part of a half-century. His baritone drawl and clip-clopping honk-tonk rhythm proved enormously influential on subsequent generations of country singers.
Loretta Lynn
The first country feminist, Lynn developed a hard-hitting persona as the wife who stood no nonsense from her rivals or her husband. Her 1966 hit "You Ain't Woman Enough" exemplified her uncompromising honky tonk approach. She answered Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" in 1975 with the double-standard message song "The Pill," which was banned by several US radio stations. She also formed a successful alliance with Conway Twitty, scoring numerous duet hits. Lynn's bestselling autobiography, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER, became a popular 1980 film, in which Sissy Spacek won an Oscar for her portrayal of Lynn.
