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There is more than one artist by the name ‘Jimmie Rodgers’.

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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3		In The Jailhouse Now			133
4		Waiting for a Train			97
5		Frankie And Johnny			66
6		Memphis Yodel			58
7		Away Out On The Mountain			54
8		Hobo Bill's Last Ride			48
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11		T.B. Blues			39
12		Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea			38
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