On November 30, 1927, Jimmie Rodgers went ... a pulse that has animated country music ever since. Writer Bob Coltman sees Rodgers’ “suave, rueful, vernacular songs” as making him “the ...
Jimmie Rodgers would come be called the “Father of Country Music ... but also some songs that reflected his upbringing in church music, songs like “I Saw the Light.” ...
Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers ... cowboy clothes and sang cowboy songs (“The Last Roundup” and ...