So, we have vowed at the Congress of Country Music to always honor and be best friends with the Jimmie Rodgers Museum and Miss Leslie Lee. I called her and said we need some dirt, as you know ...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - 2024 was an incredible year for music in the Queen City, including the country’s longest-running music festival. The Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival and Museum has had a ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.