- Jimmie Rodgers - Wikipedia
Jimmie Rodgers died of tuberculosis on May 26, 1933, at age 35 The Rodgers family migrated to the United States from England and Ireland before the American Revolution They settled around the Appalachian Mountains, and later moved to the Southern and Western United States
- Jimmie Rodgers | Country Music Pioneer, Singer-Songwriter - Britannica
Jimmie Rodgers (born September 8, 1897, Pine Springs Community, near Meridian, Mississippi, U S —died May 26, 1933, New York, New York) was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, one of the principal figures in the emergence of the country and western style of popular music
- Biography | Jimmie Rodgers Festival Museum | Meridian, Mississippi
Learn more about the life and legacy of the Father of Country Music, Jimmie Rodgers
- Jimmie Rodgers - Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Jimmie Rodgers, known professionally as the “Singing Brakeman” and “America’s Blue Yodeler,” was in the first class of inductees honored by the Country Music Hall of Fame and is widely known as “The Father of Country Music ”
- Mississippi Legends: Jimmie Rodgers, the father of country music
James Charles Rodgers, aka Jimmie Rodgers, was born on September 8, 1897, near Meridian, Mississippi His father, Aaron Rodgers, was a section foreman for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad His mother, Eliza Bozeman Rodgers, passed away when Jimmie was around four years old
- Jimmie Rodgers - Mississippi Encyclopedia
He was the first performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, and in 1976 the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Museum opened in his hometown of Meridian
- Jimmie Rodgers: The Singing Brakeman Who Gave Country Music Its Soul
Before Nashville was the epicenter of country music, before the Grand Ole Opry brought hillbilly sounds to living rooms nationwide, there was Jimmie Rodgers — a former railroad worker with a guitar and a yodel who became America’s first true country music superstar
- Jimmie Rodgers
The Country Music Hall of Fame justifiably hailed “Singing Brakeman” and “Mississippi Blue Yodeler” Jimmie Rodgers as “the man who started it all ” Although his brief six-year career was cut tragically short by tuberculosis, Rodgers became the first nationally known star of country music
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