A tremendous innovator in country music as well as a great stylist, Ernest Tubb had a warm, slightly flat baritone voice that made him one of country's best-loved and most enduring performers.
Ernest Dale Tubb was born on , in Ellis County, Texas, to a cotton-farming family. In 1928, Tubb was enthralled by a record of country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers, and made it his life's mission to follow in Rodgers' footsteps. Tubb took up guitar in...