Forever Is Ending Today -Ernest Tubb Song

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 6 Oct 2010 7:54 am

Time for my yearly tribute to Ernest Tubb's great music. I let my dad pick this tune out and he plays the lead guitar part as well. The ET harmony tag on the end was done on two tracks with the steel playing both parts.

Hear It!

Rhythm track is here:

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/Tab/Tab20.html

Greg

Ken Newman · Post by **Ken Newman** » 7 Oct 2010 6:55 pm

even E.T. would have enjoyed that rendition. your daddy understands it real good too, and prolly proud as a peacock to play it with you. thanx.

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 9 Oct 2010 12:20 pm

"Thanks A Lot" Ken! It's amazing just the sheer volume of songs that ET did and how many of them were good.

Greg

Morgan Scoggins · Post by **Morgan Scoggins** » 11 Oct 2010 3:04 am

Of all the past country music legends who have passed away, I miss E.T. the most. When I was growing up he was everybodys favorite, mainly because he always took the time to thank the audiance and visit with them after the show.
His music had a distinctive sound that, when you heard it, was undoubtably Earnest Tubb.
Thanks for posting this, The guitar player reminded me of Billy Byrd and the steel was vintage 50's country.

Rick Nicklas · Post by **Rick Nicklas** » 14 Oct 2010 8:51 am

Greg, that was very, very, very good. It made me feel like I was a kid again. You and your dad did a great job on this one. The harmony parts and your 6th neck toward the end were great too. My dad used to play all the tunes of that era and I miss them so much. Thanks for bringing some of them back. (Even the sad songs made me feel good).

Greg Cutshaw · Post by **Greg Cutshaw** » 14 Oct 2010 9:57 am

When I was a kid I started out listening to Leon and Jimmy Short play stuff like "Old Indians Never Die", No Forgiveness and Would You Take Me Back and so on. Then I heard Pete Drake, Lloyd Green and Curly Chalker play and my whole focus shifted. After going into big band, jazz and 60's rock for a while, I still listened to ET a lot. He aways delivered the goods and you can see the sincerity in his face when he sings. I was born in 1955 and still managed to see Billy Byrd play with ET at Ponderosa Park and of course all of his later bands at the Dennsion Theater in CLeveland, some hosted by Tommy Edwards. Live music was huge and you were a local star if you carried a guitar case and played in a club band.

Off the soapbox...

Greg