High stakes were fully apparent as Floyd Tillman's era-defi… - Barry Mazor

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High stakes were fully apparent as Floyd Tillman's era-defining 'I Love You So Much It Hurts' and 'Slipping Around' became massive hits, as recorded by Floyd Tillman, by cowboy pop singer Jimmy Wakely, and by many others.

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Barry Mazor is a music journalist and the author of Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music, winner of Belmont University's Best Book on Country Music award in 2010. He has written regularly for the Wall Street Journal and he is a former senior editor and columnist for No Depression magazine.

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