Floyd Tillman - Marble Falls, TX
Posted by: WalksfarTX
N 30° 34.075 W 098° 16.779
14R E 569077 N 3381938
Located on the west side of Main Street as it dead ends into Buena Vista Drive.
Waymark Code: WM15DFB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/13/2021
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In the sculpture Floyd is standing on his left leg with his right foot resting on a large rock. His guitar is resting on his right knee and his hands are holding the guitar on either side of the neck. He is wearing a cowboy hat, shirt, jeans and cowboy boots. He has a big smile on his face.
Marker at base of sculpture:
I Am Music
Dedicated October 16, 2015
Sculptor Dan Pogue
FLOYD TILLMAN
Country Music Legend and Marble Falls Resident
December 8, 1914 - August 22, 2003
Metal Plaque next to sculpture:
FLOYD TILLMANCounty Music Hall of Fame 1984 Inductee Floyd Tillman (1914-2003) is regarded as a pioneer of both the Western-Swing and Honky-Tonk Music styles. His distinctive vocal phrasing has influenced such singing greats as Willie Nelson, Lefty Frizzell, George Jones and Merle Hagggard.
The songs he wrote include such enduring classics as "I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT HURTS ME", "IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE NOW" dn what is regarded as the first "cheating song", "SLIPPING AROUND". iN 1970, he was voted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Robert K. Oarmann - County Music Historian