A 72-year-old tradition continued Friday night, with day 5 of the Jimmie Rodgers festival in East Mississippi.

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 ...

Rodgers (no relation to Jimmie) is director of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, where this story is preserved and shared. Victor hired Peer and set him loose to build a music publishing and ...

Image caption, Jimmie Rodgers (left) and Maybelle, AP and Sara Carter - The Carter Family) were among the earliest country music stars Another of the early country music stars was Jimmie Rodgers ...