Thursday, September 8, 2022

Jimmy Rodgers 125 -- September 8, 2022

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Jimmy Rodgers, the Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman was born 125 years ago today, on 08-September-1897. He had a strong influence on the development of country music. He worked as a brakeman on the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad. Tuberculosis killed him when he was 35. 


Blue Yodel No. 9 by Jimmie Rodgers (1930)


In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers (1928)


Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel No 1 (T For Texas)


In the Jailhouse Now by Jimmie Rodgers (1928)

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