Tex Williams

A couple of hat mishaps.

Danny Kaye left his hat in 1950 Haiti with some help from Four Hits and a Miss, and they were preceded by Tex Williams, whose hat wound up in the middle of the floor with everyone dancing around it, The Big Hat Polka of 1948.

The past is a dangerous place filled with potential violence towards strangers.

Uh, during my research, I experienced a bar room brawl resulting in a black eye, a fungal infection, despite wearing UV emanating headgear.

Which any good record store should be doing.

And they were playing Commander Cody with the old Merle Travis classic, Tex Williams classic, smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette.

And I'm smoking a cigarette at the same time.

And I'm like, holy moly.

You know, this is where this comes from.

And it just...

And so then I would go to Dirk Cheap and I would look through the record catalogs and look at all the Bob Wills albums that they were offering or Tex Williams or whatever I could find in there.

That's how I was researching my music.