679 Ernest Tubb (1914-1984) and the Troubadours “Walking the Floor Over You” 1941

“Stripped of all sentimental veneer and all symbolism, a honky-tonk song conveys in direct, hard-hitting, explicit language the day-to-day lives of working-class people.” When Tubb recorded “Walking the Floor Over You,” his “direct, on-the-beat, clear, believably rendered lyric with that spare single electric guitar accompaniment hit the nickelodeon crowd from Detroit to Los Angeles to Richmond like a revelation: ‘Here’s the real thing at last…’” (Ronnie Pugh, Ernest Tubb: The Texas Troubadour, 1998).

Ernest Tubb and the Troubadours “Walking the Floor Over You”