Ernest Tubb - Thanks a Lot 1966

[armsja]

Leon on lead. No one can do better call and response then that guy!

[tha209hitman]

A good old country song

[xXBuCk74MaStErXx]

The oldies are still the best!!

[sargentwrecker]

Grew up listening to this type of music always told dad oh i hate it but really liked it then dad past now this is my fav, music wish counrty was still like this not the counrty of now and days

[sargentwrecker]

@sargentwrecker i mean Country

[1mespud]

Muchas, muchas gracias to Jasper E.T. Fowler and the boys in the band...

[5gerritje]

THANK YOU !! A very special song for me.

[boatman1963]

Excellent!

[rscottmurray]

thanks a lot!

[drmountebank1]

E.T. and this band are all playing in heaven's honky tonks tonight.

[drmountebank1]

The definative sound, the trademark band, live, this is simply the best vid on youtube, the music is

[drmountebank1]

Gatorrock, thank you so much, I just can't get over how good, clean, uncluttered and just awesome this recording is, AND it is live! Not one wrong note.

[SavageArmsMan]

The original Troubador. Never will be another E.T.

[ScottShuster]

Read on Bill Anderson's web page that the steel player here, Buddy Charleton, passed away on 1/25/11. What a great player he was and, like Leon Rhodes, a central figure in bringing greater performance creativity to Ernest Tubb's sound. Ernest famously told his musicians to "keep it close to the ground, boys"...he didn't want them to get too jazzy. Buddy C. and Leon met Ernest half way and I'm so glad they did! They're the reason Ernest sounded different in the '60s than he did in the '40s.

[LordLoudoun]

one person on here didn't say "you're welcome"

[drmountebank1]

Gatorrock, I can't thank you enough for these wonderful posts. What a wonderful man, and he surrounded himself with the best, and it certainly shows.

[balerick48]

My Mom and her sister Mary went to see Ernest when they were teenagers. Mom says he was very nice to fans and patiently signed autographs. Mom also said that when she and Aunt Mary got up to him he signed autographs for them and that Aunt Mary grabbed him and kissed him right on the mouth. Bet he was pleasantly surprised, considering she was quite a looker in her youth...lol.....

[balerick48]

one of my favorites when I was a kid

[pappawheelie09]

Thank You for putting this up i have to get one of those recorders to burn some cd's from my old albums

[ScottShuster]

1:29-1:30: All downward plectrum strokes. 1:31-1:32: Up-and-down. The same, basically but delivering slightly different effects: First, stressful, then smoother, matching the chord change there, which feels to me like an emotional resolution: The 'coming-to-terms with lost love' that the song is about. If somebody sees Leon would you please ask him if that was his thinking as he plucked those notes that way in a thousand-or-more performances of this song...and post his reply here?

[johnsaxsteel]

Love this song...it is the reason I am playing pedal steel guitar today...I don't know who did the studio version but the steel is awesome!

[Johi2410]

@johnsaxsteel

I think Buddy Charleton, who is playing steel in this video, too, played the steel part on the original '63 recording of "Thanks a lot". The "father of the steel guitar" Buddy Emmons, who played on Ernest's earlier records left the Texas Troubadours in 1962.

[Gatorrock787]

@Johi2410 thank you professor!

[SinSensor]

Sometimes, the deepest of emotions can be best expressed with a simple phrase...

[drmoutebank]

This was the cream of the crop back then. Many things make up this sound that is no longer available, analog and tubes, and this band and ET. Leon Rhodes was so good he finished every song with the same licks, and Buddy Charlton, none better.

[1966deadline]

Thanks for posting!!!

[stonewall37643]

This was a few years before my time, but it is timeless. And it is a theme song for me at this moment of my life.

[pickin6]

My favorite ET song and favorite Troubadour lineup with Buddy Charlton on steel and the great Leon Rhodes on guitar, it just doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for posting this clip!

[TheMemphisSlim]

That's Jack Greene (minus the Jolly Green Giants) if nobody's noticing..

[ScottShuster]

I believe I heard Leon playing guitar on The Grand Ole Opry a couple weeks ago -- May, 2011!! I'm almost sure I heard Opry host Eddie Stubbs say that it was Leon there on stage with the Opry band. Am I crazy? Is this true? Let's see: I met Leon, Buddy (not quite sure which one), Jack Greene and of course Ernest Tubb at a show in Milwaukee in 1965 I think...so that's 46 years later and Leon is still playing top venues - ? Bravo, Leon, Bravo!!

[OGMunisteri]

Buddy Charlton at 1:54! Ha!!!!!

[bigbigjohnlee]

love ET and Leon Rhodes is an amazing guitar picker!! i absolutely love the tone he puts out

[balerick48]

My favorite E.T. song! Loved it since I was little..........

[stefanoksztaltny]

the song is awesome, but take a look in Tubb's face - it's so fucking rare nowadays to see an honest man like that, this world is going to be flushed in the toilet some day

[alimizzle11]

thanks for posting. I would always listen to this with my grandparents and community elders doing native artwork. brings back good memories :)

[MrCraig1930]

Ernest Tubb has been in the business sense he was touring with Jimmie Rodgers.

[cfaulc]

This great man was ahead of his time. And I do not think there has ever been a performer that has ever had a backup band like his. I'm a pedal steel guitar lover and he had two of the best in the Big E Buddy Emmons and the man in this video Buddy Charlton, man what a sound! And not to be left out one of the greatest pickers of all time in Leon Rhoades. This blows what they call country today in the ditch. Country needs to go back to it's roots and start playing like this again!

[Gatorrock787]

@cfaulc I couldn't have said it better.

[pwea1]

Ole ET had Leon and Buddy ,  plus the the most solid rythm section in the whole wide world ... Nothing could , and ever will , compare to the hard country sound that made the 40's 50's and 1960's music . Some may now try to copy , but this music will NEVER be duplicated ... thanks Earnie ...... Good Bye , Good Luck , and may The Good Lord take a Like in to Ya !

[bigbigjohnlee]

@pwea1

I love Leon Rhodes style and tone so deep and rich absolutely one of the best pickers

[jfrankley55]

Thanks, Gatorrock, for another great post. I've been exposed to all types of music in my fairly long life, and I NEVER tire of hearing E.T. and the Texas Troubadours. So many sublime C&W bands in the 1960s -- the Troubadours, the Brazos Valley Boys, the Cherokee Cowboys and the Buckaroos. Not to mention Nashville's A Team. I guess today's country giants have their pick of the best hired guns, but are there really any great C&W bands anymore?

[larryrealdeal]

and Jack Greene playing the snare drum...

[Johi2410]

Cal Smith on rhythm guitar #2. That was before he played on that same stage doing "Country Bumpkin".

[Gatorrock787]

@Johi2410 Cool. I just posted Country Bumpkin, by the way.

[redtony58]

Hey Gatorrock Thanks, Thanks a lot!

[speedycreekdave]

this song is just so cool

[moodswinglaplata]

Great!!!!!!

[smartandsane]

wow, ...wow

[rowdycowboyNM]

This is 20 years before I was born. I have this song stored in my ipod. Great music, much better than the bubblegum country on the radio

[bloozman1]

all you need is a snare drum...pure genius!

[bgsrickus]

Great Video & Song, I miss ET and REAL Country Music

Thanks for Sharing :)

[nittany1973]

all the guys wanna be like him in their ripped jeans and cowboy hats

[allaboard70]

This is a great show and fantastic performer !!