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Jimmie Rodgers

  • Bristol country music mural to be restored again

    July 2, 2020 | by John Lawless

    For visitors to Bristol, TN/VA, one of the most popular stops is the handprinted mural depicting early country artists who had been recorded by Ralph Peer just down State Street in 1927. It adorns the side of a brick building,

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  • Special Merit Grammy Awards for Jimmie Rodgers and Ralph Peer

    February 13, 2017 | by John Curtis Goad

    Jimmie Rodgers and Ralph Peer with their wives, and Jimmie's daughter Anita, circa 1930 - Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum The O’Connor Band took home the big bluegrass award yesterday at the 2017 Grammy Awards, but two other people

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XVII: Anniversary Blue Yodel (Blue Yodel No. 7)

    May 29, 2015 | by Daniel Mullins

    As of this past Tuesday, May 26th, it has been 82 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XVI: Miss The Mississippi and You

    May 28, 2015 | by Daniel Mullins

    As of this past Tuesday, May 26th, it has been 82 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XV: California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)

    May 27, 2015 | by Daniel Mullins

    Yesterday, May 26th, it has been 82 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six short years, “The

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XIV: My Blue-Eyed Jane

    May 26, 2014 | by Daniel Mullins

    On Monday, May 26th, it has been 81 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six short years,

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XIII: In The Jailhouse Now

    May 23, 2014 | by Daniel Mullins

    On Monday, May 26th, it will have been 81 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six

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  • Rodgers Remembrance XII: Blue Yodel No. 3

    May 22, 2014 | by Daniel Mullins

    On Monday, May 26th, it will have been 81 years since the passing of Jimmie Rodgers. A titan of American music, Jimmie Rodgers is considered an influence in country, bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, rock, pop, Americana, and more. In six

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  • Johnson City Sessions celebrated this weekend

    October 15, 2013 | by John Curtis Goad

    While the 1927 Bristol Sessions, in which the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and other early country music acts recorded some of their first songs, is well-known as the “Big Bang of Country Music,” it certainly wasn’t the only early country

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  • Rodgers Remembrance Vol XI: Those Gambler’s Blues

    May 25, 2013 | by Daniel Mullins

    This week we have been, once again, remembering the life and times of America’s Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father of Country Music: the late, great Jimmie Rodgers.Tomorrow, Jimmie Rodgers will have been gone 80 years. Arguably the most

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