If you're looking to dive into classic country music, these songs from some of the genre's most celebrated artists are great ...
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 ...
Like many country artists in the late 1920s ... Green Hand-colored poster advertising Gene Autry’s tribute song, “The Death of Jimmie Rodgers,” 1933. After he landed a spot on radio station ...
Jimmie Rodgers would come be called the “Father of Country Music ... tonk dance tunes (and lived a raucous life) but also some songs that reflected his upbringing in church music, songs ...
He signed The Carter Family, who bought close harmony singing to country, giving it a wider appeal, and the yodelling Jimmie Rodgers, the man who came to be known as the father of country music.