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	Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) Summary
		Singer and musician Jimmie Rodgers, who rose to national fame through his recordings in the late 1920s and early 1930s, is profoundly connected to a uniquely American form of popular music—country.
		Rodgers' unique amalgamation of folk blues, popular, and hillbilly music disseminated previously marginal, regional styles to national and international audiences, and he was one of the first nationally recognized musicians to feature and popularize the guitar in his recordings.
		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.
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	Jimmie Rodgers - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Rodgers, Jimmie (1897– 1933), American country singer, songwriter, and guitarist, born James Charles Rodgers in Meridian, Mississippi.
		Jimmie Rodgers was born on September 8, 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi, the youngest of three sons.
		Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) known as The Singing Brakeman and America's Blue Yodeler was the first country music superstar, resulting in another commonly...
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	National Traditional Country Music Association - Two Halls Of Fame
		When it was founded in 1976, nearly everyone of national stature invloved with traditional country, bluegrass, or old-time music was inducted.
		To be inducted into "America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame," the potential subject must be nominated by someone already in the Hall of Fame.
		Fiddle music, sometimes known as the "devil's music" was the backbone of our settler's entertainment needs, and the old songs and tunes still live on in the hands of the young who find this particular American musical art form still exciting, still enjoyable, still necessary.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)
		Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) known as The Singing Brakeman and America's Blue Yodeler was the first country music superstar, resulting in another commonly used nickname: The Father of Country Music.
		James Charles Rodgers was born on September 8, 1897 in Meridian, Mississippi, the youngest of three sons.
		Jimmie’s affinity for entertaining came at an early age, and the lure of the road was irresistible to him.
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	Jimmie Rodgers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rodgers is most famous for his number-one hit....Honeycomb, which
		Jimmie Rodgers always thought of himself primarily as a folk singer,
		yet most of the songs he sang were country flavored pop tunes.
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	Jimmie Rodgers (Country) : The Essential Jimmie Rodgers
		Many country music purists would say that all of Jimmie Rodgers' recordings are essential, and it's difficult to argue with their logic, particularly considering that the Singing Brakeman's recording career lasted six short years.
		These are the recordings that, along with the work of the Carter Family, defined country music for decades.
		Rodgers was a gifted singer (the famous "blue yodel" with which he decorated his songs is still a startling achievement) and much like the blues singers who recorded during the same period, was a master at recombining familiar lines and motifs into unique and personal songs.
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	JIMMIE RODGERS; Biography
		Rodgers' voice and guitar itself, haunting and pure, strong yet vulnerable, rising out of recordings made nearly 70 years ago, still has the power to fascinate, to inspire, to excite and to calm, and to conjure an entire world in a few quick images.
		In February Jimmie is named in a paternity suit which will not be resolved until June 1932 when the court orders Jimmie to pay Kathryn $50 a month until she reaches the age of 18 for a total sum of $2,650.
		Jimmie is in Dallas, TX in February and Camden, NJ in August to record.
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	Jimmie Rodgers - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rodgers began working on the railroad with his father as a brakeman, but was forced to leave because of tuberculosis.
		Rodgers was really a blues singer, but put blues lyrics to the strums of a guitar and added a his own variety of the yodel.
		The Country Music Hall of Fame was founded in 1961 and Rodgers was one of the very first country music singers to be inducted.
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	Jimmie Rodgers Biography : Oldies.com
		Jimmie was the youngest of three sons of Aaron Woodberry Rodgers, who had moved from Alabama to Meridian to work as foreman of a railroad maintenance crew.
		Rodgers" daughter, Carrie Anita Rodgers Court, died from emphysema in San Antonio on 5 December 1993 and was taken to Meridian, where she was buried next to her father.
		She had requested that only Jimmie's recording of "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" was to be played at her funeral (the second song he had recorded in Bristol in 1927, it was one he had often sung to her in her childhood).
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	History of Jimmy Rodgers, Blue Yodeler
		Born James Charles Rodgers on September 8, 1897, in the east Mississippi town of Meridian, Jimmie was the youngest of three boys born to Eliza and Aaron Rodgers.
		The song was a Jimmie Rodgers original composition which drew heavily on traditional blues while showcasing his strong, unique guitar style, aggressive vocals, and a crystal-clear, bone chilling yodel which became his trademark.
		As much as Jimmie Rodgers represented a break with past traditions in country music, typified in his parting of the ways with the Tenneva Ramblers, he also must be viewed as a point of common ground for devotees of many disparate musical idioms, including blues, old-time western, Hawaiian, jug band, and jazz.
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	LA Times, Aug. 10, 1997 Jimmie Rodgers Tribute story (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Singing the Brakeman's Praises Jimmie Rodgers, the neglected giant who brought country music into the pop mainstream, is saluted by an eclectic lineup of his '90s heirs on a tribute album conceived by Bob Dylan.
		Jimmie is at the heart of it all with a seriousness and humor that is befuddling.
		Rodgers was born in Meridian, Miss., the son of a railroad worker, and he followed that profession for more than a decade starting in his teens.
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	Jimmie Rodgers Biography
		Jimmie Rodgers had fourteen charted hits between 1957-67, but after a disastrous assault never resumed the popularity he had earlier.
		He is no relation to the country-folk giant Jimmie Rodgers, probably the most influential country singer/composer in music, who died the same year the younger Rodgers was born.
		Rodgers was mugged in 1967 and the physical assault resulted in a serious injury, a fractured skull.
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	King of Country
		The Rodgers celebration also will include a photo exhibition of the musician's life at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a Jimmie Rodgers Jamboree at the Odeon Theater, a commemorative concert at Severance Hall, and a Jimmie Rodgers Symposium at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
		Rodgers was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1897.
		Rodgers' improvement upon "long forgotten relics" or singing new songs in the old traditions had "the ultimate consequence" of influencing a major segment of the popular culture and preserving some of the past's folk songs, added Porterfield.
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	Jimmie Rodgers Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jimmie Rodgers is one of the early rock and roll pioneers.
		This Jimmie Rodgers was known as The Singing Brakeman and is identified with yodelling and songs such as Muleskinner Blues, T for Texas, and Blue Yodel No. 9.
		Jimmie Rodgers is a talented performer who reached his peak of popularity in the late 50's.
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	Tom Piazza - Author, New Orleans, LA
		Rodgers was invited back to the studios in short order, this time to the Victor studios in Camden, New Jersey, where he recorded the first of his Blue Yodels (the famous "T for Texas").
		Rodgers' Blue Yodels, of which he recorded 13, along with numerous other songs that fit the form but were not designated as such (like "Jimmie's Texas Blues" and "No Hard Times"), were a genre within a genre.
		Rodgers' influence in the country field is inescapable, both in his singing and guitar style and in the repertoire of songs he wrote or popularized, including "Waiting For A Train," "Miss The Mississippi and You," "My Carolina Sunshine Gal," "Peach Picking Time In Georgia," "He's In the Jailhouse Now," not to mention his Blue Yodels.
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	Jimmie Rodgers: The Father of Country Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jimmie Rodgers was born James Charles Rodgers outside Meridian, Mississippi, on September 8, 1897.
		Rodgers was not the first musician to sing “Yo de lay hee-ho” between verses of his songs, but he made it such a trademark that some people assume country music had always included yodeling.
		Jimmie Rodgers was extraordinarily popular in his short lifetime, and remains popular with generations of music fans.
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	Jimmie Rodgers Lyrics
		Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) - James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) was the first country music superstar.
		Jimmie Rodgers - Jimmie Rodgers, or Jimmy Rodgers could be one of the following: * Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), "The Singing Brakeman" * Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer), sang "Honeycomb" * Jimmie Rodgers (SPC Deputy Director General) * Jimmy Rodgers (basketball) N
		Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) - James Frederick Rodgers (born September 18, 1933 in Camas, Washington) is sometimes classed as a rock and roll singer, but his style was more typical of traditional pop music.
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	Roots of alt.country
		Nashville country is thematically the least cohesive of the categories; it is aimed at the largest possible audience and identifies itself as part of the national character.
		It is not just Country that is adapted; the social activism of folk singers like Woody Guthrie and the Weavers, who came from the same musical tradition as early country stars, has also been incorporated along with the murder ballads, work songs, etc. that they discovered and composed.
		Like early Country music, punk demanded an adherence to authenticity and cherished its unrefined sound, and although it always included an artier side, early pioneers like the Ramones or Johnny Thunders were expressing boredom and anger at a world that sucked and was only getting worse.
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	Ralph Peer Remembers Jimmie Rodgers (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jimmie was practically unknown north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but within a year he became the most important recording artist in the region where hillbilly music has always enjoyed greatest popularity.
		Rodgers liked working in "tent shows." He felt at home in the informal surroundings and greatly enjoyed his contacts with other performers.
		Jimmie Rodgers by this time had become "standard." There were one or two masters to be remade because of technical defects.
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	Blue Ridge Country: Bristol, The Real Home of Country Music? Jimmie Rodgers & Carter Family
		Country music's first stars -- Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family -- both recorded in Bristol as early as 1927.
		Nobody was calling it "country music." But by 1927, recording engineers for a handful of labels were scrambling to record "hillbilly music," often conducting field recording sessions.
		Jimmie Rodgers, arriving from Asheville, N.C., near the end of the sessions, on August 4, "didn't have much material ready that was suitable for recording, so we could only make two selections at that time," Peer said during a 1953 interview with reporter Grant Turner in Meridian, Miss.
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	Definitions of Style - Country Music
		Generally regarded exclusively as the music of white southerners (and often called "the white man's blues"), country music has in fact been deeply influenced by African Americans, who have contributed and listened to country music from its origins to the present day.
		Jimmie Rodgers, known as "the father of country music," was greatly influenced by the music of fl railroad workers and fl musicians with whom he played in medicine shows.
		Jimmie Rodgers was the boyhood idol of legendary bluesman Howlin' Wolf, who claimed that Rodgers gave him his nickname and that Rodgers' famous "blue yodel" influenced his signature howl.
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	Jimmie Rodgers News
		He was a songwriter and singer who gets something personal and sui generis about the blues from his hometown of Meridian, Mississippi - in...
		Catherine Britt was born and raised in Newcastle on Australia's eastern coast, where she fell under the spell of country music while still a young child.
		For his first album in 10 years, country gathered some A-list guests to help with the singing and playing.
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	Country Information, a world portal on countries, politics and governments
		Country music, also known as country and western music or country-western, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States.
		Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family are widely considered to be the founders of country music, and their songs were first captured at a historic recording session in Bristol, Tennessee on August 1, 1927, where Ralph Peer was the talent scout and sound recordist.
		Jimmie Rodgers is a major foundation stone in the structure of country music, but the most influential artist from the Jimmie Rodgers strand is undoubtedly Hank Williams, Sr.
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	Honky Tonks, Hymns, & the Blues
		Jimmie Rodgers, popularly called “the father of country music,” followed a meteoric path from poverty to fame to early death in a few short years.
		Jimmie Rodgers was the prototype singer-songwriter; fitting the mold even though he didn’t write a lot of the songs he sang.
		Jimmie is at the heart of it all with a seriousness and a humor that is befuddling….His is the voice in the wilderness of your head…” The album features performers like the late Jerry Garcia—who died during its recording—and Willie Nelson.
	www.honkytonks.org /showpages/jrodgers.htm (1865 words)

	Country Music Roots:: Jimmie Rodgers: Life and Times
		Born James Charles Rodgers on September 8, 1897, in the east Mississippi town of Pine Springs, Jimmie was the youngest of three boys born to Eliza and Aaron Rodgers.
		The song was a Jimmie Rodgers original composition which drew heavily on traditional blues while showcasing his strong, unique guitar style, aggressive vocals, and a crystal-clear, bone chilling yodel which became his trademark.
		As much as Jimmie Rodgers represented a break with past traditions in country music, typified in his parting of the ways with the Tenneva Ramblers, he also must be viewed as a point of common ground for devotees of many disparate musical idioms, including blues, old-time western, Hawaiian, jug band, and jazz.
	www.markbrine.com /country_music_roots/jimmie_rodgers.htm (3100 words)

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