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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...
...South. North Carolina's Charles F. Car roll, state superintendent of public instruction, says flatly: "We've had these practices since the beginning-I don't know of any school that has ruled out prayers and Bible reading." Mississippi Superintendent of Education J. M. Tubb says: "The ruling hasn't really changed things much." Some Mississippi schools have students recite the Lord's Prayer, others let students propose their own. In the Greenville schools, a verse of Scripture is read over loudspeaker systems each...
...take off his shoes when he saw the burning bush was very similar to my feelings. I saw many burning bushes in Cookham." For Spencer, who patterned the Virgin May after his counsin, a milkmaid, it seems perfectly natural that angels in their visitations should call on Sarah Tubb, whom Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment...
When the love feast was over, Democratic State Chairman Thomas Jefferson Tubb seemed to think that Johnson and Mitchell had served just the right political victuals. Roared Tubb: "Those who say the Democratic Party in Mississippi is no more, let them listen and let them quiver...
...contemporary U.S. culture. Ever since 1925, when Grand Ole Opry got started, young men with guitars have been lounging into town to seek their fortunes on the sprawling, leisurely 4½hour broadcast of mountain and prairie specialties. Among those who found fame: Opry Alumni Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Roy Acuff, all of whom now boast six-figure annual incomes. Citified publishers and record companies-realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time-have been making tracks to the source...