FREE Multi-Artist Showcase from Rural Rhythm and Blue Highways TV

Rural Rhythm Records and BlueHighways TV are proud to announce a live concert Showcase at Ernest Tubb Record Shop located at 417 Broadway, Nashville, TN.  The event takes place Tuesday, September 25, 2012from 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm and admission is free.  This special concert is a selection of featured artists from the BEHIND THE DREAM™ Season 1 TV Show currently airing on BlueHighways TV.  The concert includes performances by: 

Kenny Baker Remembered by Fiddlers, Musicians, Friends!

Becky Buller, accomplished fiddler and songwriter attended the Kenny Baker Tribute Celebration two weeks ago in Nashville.  Baker died of complications from a stroke on July 8th this year.  We asked Ms. Buller if she would tell us about the tribute celebration. Here is what she had to say:

Tunes, tall tales, and lots of laughter were shared the Wednesday before last at the Ernest Tubb Texas Troubador Theater in Nashville, Tenn., to celebrate and remember the great Kenny Baker. Wish I'd thought to bring my own fiddle as I was invited to play as well...drat the lack of constant Internet...I missed that Facebook message! Had a great time with Jeff and my father-in-law listening to my other heroes honoring this one.

...Becky also posted a short Video Clip of the event Here ...

Masters of Ceremonies were Bobby Osborne and Lance LeRoy. Ron Eldridge, longtime friend of Baker, coordinated the event and the Ernest Tubb Record Shop donated use of the theater.

Bobby Osborne & Rocky Top X-press On the Opry & Midnight Jamboree This Saturday!

Opry update!

In a message to his fans and the bluegrass community Bobby Osborne writes:

We'll be performing on the Grand Ole Opry at 8:00 PM Central time this Saturday! We'll be hosting the Midnight Jamboree at 10:00 PM that night across the way from the Opry House at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop! Feel free to come on over and join us!

The Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree is the second longest running radio show in history.  When in Nashville, you're invited to be a part of the live audience.  And as always, admission is free!  Shows are taped each Saturday night at 10pm (Central Time) and broadcast at Midnight (Central Time) over Nashville Radio Station WSM AM 650.

WSM Radio is also the Home of The Grand Ole Opry broadcasting every performance since it's inception

For the world-wide audience, WSM Broadcasts are streaming on the Internet at: http://www.wsmonline.com/home/.   After the broadcast, repeat performances can be found on the Opry's You Tube Channel at:  www.youtube.com/oprylive.

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Remembering Ernest Tubb 1914-1984

Country Music Hall of Famer,   Ernest Dale Tubb (February 9, 1914 – September 6, 1984), nicknamed the Texas Troubadour and known fondly to his many friends and fans simply as E.T. was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" (1941), marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music. In 1948, he was the first singer to record a hit version of "Blue Christmas", a song more commonly associated with Elvis Presley and his mid-1950s version. Another well-known Tubb hit was "Waltz Across Texas" (1965), which became one of his most requested songs and is often used in dance halls throughout Texas during waltz lessons.




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Few country singers have inspired more affection than Ernest Tubb, the affable "Texas Troubadour." Tubb's career spanned some fifty years and effectively bridged the gap between the first true country recording artists, like Jimmie Rodgers, and the latest generation of stars, like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn. So many "firsts" are associated with Tubb that it is easy to miss a few: he was the first country artist to popularize electric guitar accompaniment, the first major purveyor of honky-tonk music, and the first country musician to headline a performance at Carnegie Hall. He is also remembered fondly for the helping hand he gave freely to other aspiring singers, among them Elvis Presley, Jack Greene, and Cal Smith. *

Ernest Tubb single-handly did more to bring Country Music to the people and extended a helping hand to more struggling artists than he has been--or ever will be recognized for!  Thankfully, his music and his legacy live on!  - Loudilla Johnson; Owner, International Fan Club Organization.

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Tubb was regularly on the charts through 1969 with such hits as "Goodnight Irene" (with Red Foley in 1950), "I Love You Because," "Missing in Action," "Two Glasses Joe" (1954), "Half a Mind", "Thanks A Lot", "Mr. and Mrs. Used-To-Be" (with Loretta Lynn in 1964), and "Let's say Goodbye, Like We said Hello." Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours played around 300 dates a year during that period. 



Ernest Tubb died of emphysema at Baptist Hospital in Nashville. He is buried in Nashville's Hermitage Memorial Gardens. Modern fans may know him primarily for the Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville, Tennessee, which opened in May, 1947 and has been a meeting place for country music stars and fans for decades.

Ernest Tubb Record Shops founded by the legendary Ernest Tubb,  have been filing country and bluegrass music fans' needs for over 63 years. The Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville is also the home of The Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree which helped launch the careers of the Everly Brothers and Elvis Presley**.

Ernest Tubb Record Shops and the second longest running radio show, the Ernest Tubb Midnite Jamboree is broadcast world wide every saturday night and on AM650. The second longest running radio show has never missed a performance. Now we are taping the shows at 10:00 PM for our internet audience to see the show and the audio is played back the following Saturday night at 12 Midnite. Come on out an join us for fun filled evening of great entertainment....for FREE as it always has been, as as E.T. would say, "Be Better To Your Neighbors and You'll have better neighbors....dogone ya!"    -David McCormick, Owner/CEO - Ernest Tubb Record Shops 

Read More about Ernest Tubb

Books

• Stambler, Irwin and Grelun Landon, The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, and Western Music, St. Martin's, 1969.
• Shelton, Robert and Burt Goldblatt, The Country Music Story: A Picture History of Country and Western Music, Bobbs-Merrill, 1966, reprinted, Arlington House, 1971.
• Shestack, Melvin, The Country Music Encyclopedia, Crowell, 1974.
• The Best of Country Music, KBO Publishers, 1975.
• Malone, Bill C. and Judith McCulloh, Stars of Country Music, University of Illinois Press, 1975.
• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, Harmony, 1977.
• Malone, Bill C., Country Music U.S.A., revised edition, University of Texas Press, 1985.

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