the entire country music industry.” The bandwagon would pick up many more riders who were profoundly influenced by Rodgers and by his momentous discovery of a hillbilly blues method. Jimmie Davis, the ...

Some would mostly be forgotten, but by recording the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers during that time, he had set the future of country music in motion. The Carter Family would come to be known ...

Americana, a music deeply rooted in the musical culture of the United States, has arguably been around in one form or another for more than a century: country heroes such as Jimmie Rodgers and his ...

including the country’s longest-running music festival. The Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival and Museum has had a jam-packed 2024, from new educational programs to sell-out shows. This year ...

Jimmie Rodgers’s ‘Blue Yodel’ was a big influence on a branch of white country music that also had one foot in the blues. Western Swing originated in Texas, and the first big stars of this ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.

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 and he went on to become one of its biggest stars. His impact ...

Lauderdale County supervisors are weighing a request from the Jimmie Rodgers Foundation to revitalize ... the Meridian native and “father of country music” have been making use of rented ...