Ernest Tubb. side 1: Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel; side 2: Will You Be Satisfied That Way (Decca 29934). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1956. Side 2 was recorded in 1955 ...

His signature was the “blue yodel,” powerful singing with a Mississippi twang over a functionally strummed guitar.

On this day (July 16) in 1930 Jimmie Rodgers, Louis Armstrong, and Lil Hardin Armstrong recorded "Blue Yodel No. 9" in Los Angeles.

On the same disc are eight sides by Jimmie Rodgers, including one, recorded in Hollywood in 1930, with Louis Armstrong on trumpet and his wife Lillian Hardin Armstrong on piano, "Blue Yodel #9." ...

There is a fascinating track titled “Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family” on the fourth disc of Jimmie Rodgers: Recordings 1927-1933, a five-disc collection of the songs the Blue Yodeler ...

Jimmie Rodgers' "Blue Yodel" guitar (right) is displayed at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. The loan to the museum from the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi was announced ...

Jimmie Rodgers’ second recording was called “Blue Yodel.” So popular did it prove that he followed it with a “Blue Yodel No. 2,” then a “No. 3” until he sang 25 of them, sold 6,000,000.

The display features the guitar owned by Father of Country Music Legend Jimmie Rodgers. The guitar is Rodgers' custom ordered 000-45 guitar known as the Blue Yodel.

Likewise, Ernest Tubb, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers began their careers imitating Rodgers. Bill Monroe auditioned for the Grand Ole Opry with “Blue Yodel No. 8 (Muleskinner Blues).” Johnny Cash ...

And part of that was quite deliberate: if you couldn’t spend seventy-five cents to hear Jimmie Rodgers sing “Blue Yodel Number Four” on RCA, you might be tempted to spend thirty-five cents ...

Jimmie Rodgers’ “Blue Yodel” guitar (right) is displayed at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum. The loan to the museum from the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, Mississippi was ...