'Jimmie Rodgers' History:
AboutJames Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) was the first country music superstar. Rodgers, known as The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler, was born either at his maternal grandparents' home at Pine Springs, Mississippi, just north of Meridian, or at his parents' home at Geiger, Alabama. Nevertheless, he considered his hometown to be Meridian, and spent most of his early life from boyhood accompanying his father on railroad jobs. He eventually became a railroad brakeman, an extremely dangerous and highly skilled job. In the days before air brakes, the brakeman had to stop the train by running on top of the moving train from car to car setting mechanical brakes on each one. |
Jimmie Rodgers Discography:
| Release Title and date | |
 | Riding High 1929-1930 1971 |
| Jimmie the Kid 1961 | |
| My Rough and Rowdy Ways 1960 | |
 | Train Whistle Blues 1957 |
| Never No Mo' Blues 1955 | |
| Country Legacy 1933 | |
| all time greatest hits - folk | |
| all time greatest hits - hits | |
| america's blue yodeler 1930-1931 - rounder cd |
| the yodeler | |
| the yodelling ranger | |
| yodeling king |
