Jimmie Davis, the singing Louisiana politician ... According to his biographer Nolan Porterfield, Rodgers’ songs “altered and shaped the patterns of emerging hillbilly music, materially ...

The song went to No. 1 on the Hot Country charts ... As for Nelson, he didn’t do so bad himself, as we shall see. Jimmie ...

Douglas B. Green Hand-colored poster advertising Gene Autry’s tribute song, “The Death of Jimmie Rodgers,” 1933. After he landed a spot on radio station WLS in Chicago, Autry dropped the ...

Jimmie Rodgers would come be called the “Father ... honky tonk dance tunes (and lived a raucous life) but also some songs that reflected his upbringing in church music, songs like “I Saw ...