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Ernest Tubb, born on February 9, 1914, in Crisp, Texas, and passed away on September 6, 1984, in Nashville, Tennessee, was an American singer and songwriter known as the Texas Troubadour. He was a pioneer of country music, with his biggest hit, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), helping to popularize the honky-tonk style. Tubb was the first to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas" in 1948-49, a song more commonly associated with another artist's mid-1950s rendition. Among his well-known songs is "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became a favorite in dance halls throughout Texas. In the early 1960s, he recorded duets with emerging artists, including the hit "Sweet Thang." Tubb also appeared in films such as "Fighting Buckaroo," "Hollywood Barn Dance," "Ridin' West," and "Jamboree." He began broadcasting from his own Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville in 1947 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1965.

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