[parsifal]

And don't forget Ernest Tubb. What was the name of that 30-40s female Texas C&W singer? Texas Ruby or something like that? I think she started a nite club.

[okie01]

I almost put Ernest Tubb in place of Floyd Tillman -- but decided that Tillman had a little more eclat.

The lady is unfamiliar to me, as my earliest recollection of the genre would be Kitty Wells. But I bet I know where her nightclub would've been -- on the Jacksboro Highway at the northwest edge of Fort Worth.

'Twas a veritable den of inequity during the late forties/early fifties -- drinkin', dancin', gamblin' and ladies of easy virtue. The kind of place where a rancher or an oilman could have a good time, if ya knowhaddayemean...