Floyd Tillman
b. 8 December 1914, Ryan, Oklahoma, USA, d. 22 August 2003, Bacliff, nr. Houston, Texas, USA. Tillman was the youngest of 11 children of a sharecropping family who moved to Post, Texas, when he was a few months old. He first learned to play mandolin and banjo but later changed to guitar, performing with Adolph Hofner's band, even singing a few songs, although later admitting he wished to be a songwriter since he could not sing. He moved to Mack Clark's dance band in Houston, leaving to join the Blue Ridge Playboys of Leon Selph, when Clark's band professed his song "It Makes No Difference Now" was too hillbilly (the song later became a hit for both Gene Autry and Bing Crosby and established Tillman as a songwriter, in spite of the fact that he once sold it to Jimmie Davis for $200 but managed to obtain joint ownership in 1966, when the copyright came up for renewal). The Blue Ridge Playboys, who included Moon Mullican, Bob Dunn and Cliff Bruner, became noted as specialists of honky tonk music.
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Albums
- (1998) The Best Of Floyd Tillman
Top Tracks
- I Love You So Much It Hurts
- Slipping Around
- Each Night At Nine
- Call On Me (And I'll Be There)
- I Don't Care Anymore
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