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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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  • FolxPunxForLife

    I'm gonna shoot poor Thelma, just to see her jump and fall

    February 2012

  • wildtony40

    they put wong song on cd

    January 2012

  • DeadKinks

    All the way back in the 20's he embraced blues, folk and jazz as elements to the first distinctively country music. It's sad that so many times since then those influences were forgotten by the largest part of the so-called country musicians.

    September 2011

  • patykol

    ♥

    July 2011

  • minuszeroLastFM

    Jimmie ain't bluegrass :)

    March 2011

  • He11Kn1ght

    im not trolling. im genuinely curious

    March 2011

  • mmmbrunommm

    'what songs of his are racist? ' Trolls

    March 2011

  • cadaver11

    what songs of his are racist? [2] - That's what I wanna know.

    March 2011
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