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1) Jimmie Rodgers - Father of Country Music
“The Original” James Charles “Jimmie” Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) was the first country music superstar. Rodgers, known as The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler, was born in Pine Springs, Mississippi, USA but considered his hometown to be Meridian, Mississippi, and spent most of his early life from boyhood accompanying his father on railroad jobs. He eventually became a railroad brakeman, an extremely dangerous and highly skilled job. In the days before air brakes, the brakeman had to stop the train by running on top of the moving train from car to car setting mechanical brakes on each one.

Tuberculosis forced him to leave the railroad, and he undertook all sorts of work, ranging from police detective to blackface performer in minstrels and medicine shows.before answering an advertisement from Ralph Peer of the Victor Talking Machine Company to audition as a performing artist. This audition in Bristol, Tennessee, on August 4, 1927 (two days after the Carter Family answered the same ad and recorded in the same hall) led to Rodgers’ phenomenally successful recording career.

His songs, most of which he wrote himself, were typically either sentimental songs about home, family and sweethearts, or tough takes on the lives of hoboes, “rounders”, and his beloved railroads and railroaders, on his own hard life and happy marriage.

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1	Kisses Sweeter Than Wine	240
2	Honeycomb	135
3	In the Jailhouse Now	126
4	Waiting for a Train full track	112
5	O Holy Night	76
6	Memphis Yodel full track	75
7	Frankie and Johnny	66
8	Secretly full track	64
9	Daddy and Home full track	53
10	Away Out On The Mountain full track	52
11	Hobo Bill's Last Ride full track	36
12	Pistol Packin' Papa full track	34
13	T.B. Blues full track	30
14	Train Whistle Blues full track	26
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downer88 wrote:
October 2009

im glad this came into my neighbour radio because everyone needs some yodeling in their life!!

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vodenapushka wrote:
September 2009

Brilliant!

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oldhomehaibane wrote:
September 2009

Jimmie Rodgers introduced me to the joys of yodeling.

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ggoes wrote:
August 2009

jimmie rolls along on the kentucky moon.

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OldGrayPuppet wrote:
July 2009

he is reinforced of folk Country

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mikkelbamse2 wrote:
July 2009

If you love the folk/pop artist Jimmie Rodgers, like I do, then check out his amazing website!! http://www.jimmierodgershoneycomb.com/

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guestspeaker wrote:
June 2009

I'm thinking of you tonight Jimmy

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guestspeaker wrote:
June 2009

ee aww Jimmy!

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Cajungrandma wrote:
May 2009

At A Boy Jimmy! You were always the Best.

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Snapdragon4 wrote:
April 2009

Amazing-the best always seem to be from Mississippi!! What's with that place.

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CDPETE01 wrote:
March 2009

I have the complete set on rounder,8 cds I seem to remember.

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davidn87 wrote:
February 2009

"The First Country/ western singer ever , in the GOOD OLE U.S.of A." Debateable

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lstusr wrote:
January 2009

father of country music

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HoboSpirit wrote:
November 2008

Hobos ride to find work. Tramps ride to avoid work. Bums neither ride nor work. Jimmie was the voice of the hobo's spirit

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loudyloudy wrote:
November 2008

gotta love Jimmie's simplicity and yodel

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GRANNY70 wrote:
October 2008

He was my fathers favorite. He had a 78 record of Jimmy Rodgers. I gave it to a friend.

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PopeDaniel wrote:
February 2008

Grandpappa listened way back when out on the Delta. May both rest in peace!

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ma7co7ma7co7m wrote:
February 2008

The First Country/ western singer ever , in the GOOD OLE U.S.of A.

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Don_Diego wrote:
October 2007

By the way, is it No. or #?

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jcshepard wrote:
August 2007

Yeah, that's how you spell the title to Blue Yodel No. 8. Get your darn tags right...

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