Eighty-four years ago today, Ernest Tubb released a song that would become a country standard and change the genre forever.

What: WSM's Eddie Stubbs moderates "A Celebration of Ernest Tubb," a discussion featuring Tubb's biographer, Ronnie Pugh, guitar great Leon Rhodes and Ernest Tubb Record Shops CEO David McCormick.

Billy Byrd, 81, who once played lead guitar for Ernest Tubb’s Texas Troubadours, died Tuesday in Nashville. William Lewis Byrd was born in Nashville, and taught himself guitar by copying the ...

The “Thanks (Thanks a Lot)” singer hoped to get a signed photograph of his idol, and received so much more. Jimmie Rodgers died in 1933, but Ernest Tubb’s reverence for his legacy lived on.

Today would have been country legend and pioneer Ernest ... Tubb was a mainstay on the country circuit and the charts, with songs like "Walking the Floor Over You", "Waltz Across Texas", and ...