| Walking the Floor Over You | |
| Type: | Box set |
| Artist: | Ernest Tubb |
| Cover: | Walking the Floor Over You.jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Recorded: | October 1946 – December 1947 |
| Genre: | Country, Honky tonk |
| Label: | Bear Family |
| Producer: | Paul Cohen, Dave Kapp, Eli Oberstein, Joe Perry Richard Weize (reissue producer) |
| Prev Title: | Yellow Rose of Texas |
| Prev Year: | 1993 |
Walking the Floor Over You is a box set of Ernest Tubb's early recordings, released in 1996. It is an eight-CD box set and was released in 1996. It contains 208 songs, many of them are previously unissued on LP or CD. The set includes extensive liner notes, session notes and photographs.
The collection covers Tubb's recordings from 1936 until early 1947. It ranges from Tubb accompanied only by his guitar to the developing of the roots of honkey tonk music.
In his Allmusic review, Bruce Eder describes Disc Two as "...where honky tonk comes into the world fully formed, with a comparatively loud, jaunty backup and Tubb's vocals acquiring the smooth, deep, emotive quality that characterized his peak performance. This disc is Ernest Tubb lean and mean, creating a popular music genre as he goes along."
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