“A fellow like Jimmie Rodgers appealed to a much wider audience because he had a popular version of hillbilly.” Look at his legatees. Ernest Tubb had been a Rodgers addict since his boyhood. When he ...

like ‘Memphis Yodel’, a cover of a Jimmie Rodgers 1928 record. Songs like ‘Hobo Blues’ were so much like a Jimmie Rodgers train song that you would be forgiven for thinking it was a cover.

Douglas B. Green Hand-colored poster advertising Gene Autry’s tribute song, “The Death of Jimmie Rodgers,” 1933. After he landed a spot on radio station WLS in Chicago, Autry dropped the ...

Jimmie Rodgers would come be called the “Father ... honky tonk dance tunes (and lived a raucous life) but also some songs that reflected his upbringing in church music, songs like “I Saw ...

Although this song has all the sounds and hallmarks of ... And believe it or not – no Jimmie Rodgers, no Taylor Swift. Back in 1928, Jimmie was among the first to put country music to vinyl ...