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Marty Stuart’s Congress of Country Music officially breaks ground for its latest historic artifacts museum
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 ...
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Jimmie Rodgers Foundation looks back on a successful 2024
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 ...
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How Jimmie Rodgers changed the face of popular music – and built a song franchise in the process
In the autumn of 1927, Victor Records and their talent scout and producer Ralph Peer were giving some thought to an artist they had signed up that summer – a 30-year-old singer and guitarist named ...
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Singing Cowboys
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.