Word: tubb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truckers and dirt farmers on a night out. But it's just a row of dirty book stores and porno booths, privacy ensured, and the old auditorium, Ryman's, which used to be the Grand Ole Opry in better days, looks like a church turned bingo hall. The Ernest Tubb Record Store is only a dingy Woolworth's--lines of cheap cowboy boots and tumbled boxes of western shirts, old George Wallace Speaks records, trick glasses that look like they're full of beer but when you pretend to spill it on someone the beer stays in because there...
Across the street, was the answer, right next to Ernest Tubb's music shop. As Nick and I crossed the cracked pavement in this fast-crumbling section of town, with the heart, the old Opry building, cut right out of it and transplanted into the wide open spaces of chain motels and highway interchanges--transmogrified into another exhibit in a Disney vision of Country Muzak land--we saw the lights of a glowing juke joint called the Wheel...
Southern black blues fathered country and western music, which stayed in the hills unchanged for generations while the strains that travelled to the city became jazz. After the glorious period of Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb--country music started to become big business. Nashville discovered the way to make its music a mass commodity in the mid-sixties--by adding background violins and Hollywood choruses to the dobros and the pedal steels...