Webb Pierce

It topped both the country and pop charts, would prove you could have commercial success without completely abandoning country's narrative traditions.

Webb Pierce, meanwhile, kept honky-tonk alive with songs like There Stands the Glass from 1953, but even he eventually incorporated more polished production as the decade progressed.

The 1950s established a template for every subsequent battle in country music, the tension between rural and urban, traditional and modern, authentic and commercial.

What's crucial to understand is that both sides went.

And then the The disc jockey, Nelson Bragg, was playing all the current music.

Well, Hank Williams was still alive, and Webb Pierce, and Lefty Frizzell, and Hank Snow, and all of that music.

Kitty Wells, Hank Thompson.

And I just really loved it, and I loved Hank Williams.

Or does he? If you got the money, honey, I've got the time, came out in 1951.

Then Webb Pierce's 1952 release, A Backstreet Affair, blames his adultery on his wife's adultery, but explicitly excuses this breaking of the Seventh Commandment.

What's important is that these fellows position themselves as major stars and then lead the masses in a certain direction.

That's the whole point here.

Since the 1990s, women have been disproportionately influential in pushing cultural and social boundaries, even though men often dominate country music in the commercial sense.

This is how country music set the trajectory of culture for the heartland of America.

As we chronicle the breakdown of American society, American morality, and the loss of Western civilization, the names of Dolly Parton, Casey Musgrave, Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Leroy Van Dyke, Webb Pierce, and Ernest Tubb will top the list of the destroyers.

All right, a couple of takeaways from all of this.

We'll meet you.

And Webb Pierce had this one.

I want to try that.

Don't forget it.

wondering, who's kissing you? Wondering, wondering if you're wondering too Every hour through the day Since you've been away I keep wondering, yes, wondering If you're wondering too I pray every night to the good Lord above To send back to me the one I really love Wondering, wondering who's kissing you If you're wondering too Every hour through the day Since you've been away I keep wondering, yes, wondering If you're wondering too guitar solo I pray every night to the good Lord above to send back to me the one I really love wandering, wandering Who's kissing you? Wondering, wondering If you're wondering too Every hour through the day Since you've been away I keep wondering, yes, wondering If you're wondering too

There's Webb Pierce, 1951, Wondering.

Moon Mulligan, prior to that, the king of the hillbilly piano players.

And a hit he had back in 1950, I was sort of wondering.

Oh, man, you know, I got to give credit to that inspiration to play that song.

I was listening to XM Radio, Sirius XM, on the way home from work today, and I'm trying to remember the name of the DJ, the feller, but he was talking about this, and he played the song, and it's one of my favorite, favorite versions by Webb Pierce.

And Webb had a huge hit with it.

In fact, I think it was released on this day back in, I want to say 1955, so it's been a while, but it did very, very well.

But Webb really knocked it out of the park there on the Decca record label, and I thought that would be kind of fun to play.

So there you go.

In the JL is now by Webb Pierce here on Go Cat Go, the rockabilly show.

We had Imelda May by Suggestion.

Yeah.

Webb Pierce.

I mean, it's just amazing the people that I got to meet through Mel, you know.

Yeah.

It's where we put an album on the turntable and we play this album side without any interruption.

Today, our vinyl revival album is, we got Webb Pierce with his album, Full, Full, Full.

Now, this is side two.

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