Asleep at the Wheel
Walking the Floor over You
by Ernest Tubbs, covered by Asleep at the Wheel
Both the original release by Ernest Tubb himself and this cover
by Asleep at the Wheel deserve a spot in your iPod, but
which do you think we place in the top spot? Could it be the Tubb original which launched
the entirety of honky-tonk? Or would it be Asleep at the Wheel’s 1988 cover where
frontman Ray Benson lets it slip that he’s a time traveler?
— Michael Main
Well, that sounds like me . . . It is me!
“Walking the Floor over You” by Ernest Tubbs, covered by Asleep at the Wheel, on Western Standard Time (Epic
Records, August 1988).