December 1, 2025
Growing Up with Roy
Kenneth Tidwell of Andrews remembers growing up in Wink, where one of his schoolmates was Roy Orbison.
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Tumbleweed Smith
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Born in 1935 in Waco, Texas, Bob Lewis broadcast across Texas and adopted the name Tumbleweed Smith in 1970.
Born in 1935, in Waco, Texas, Bob Lewis began broadcasting throughout Texas, and adopted the name Tumbleweed Smith in 1970. His radio show “The Sound of Texas” began broadcasting in 1969, and Lewis has amassed a collection of 14,000 interviews throughout his career, one of the largest private oral history collections in the United States.
Lewis syndicates his column, a written version of his radion show, to various weekly newspapers and to Ranch & Rural Living from his home in Big Spring, Texas.