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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Country music |
 | | Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family are widely considered to be the founders of country music, and their songs were first captured at an historic recording session in Bristol, Tennessee on August 1, 1927, where Ralph Peer was the talent scout and sound recordist. | | | Country music, once known as country and western music, is a popular musical form developed in the southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals, and the blues. | | | Even today the variety of country music is not usually well reflected in radio airplay and the popular perception of country music is still influenced by the maudlin ballads and whining steel guitars that many people still associate with the genre. |
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| | History of Jimmy Rodgers, Blue Yodeler |
| | Jimmie Rodgers, alone with his guitar, recorded two songs, "Sleep, Baby Sleep," and "The Soldier's Sweetheart," beginning a legacy of over 100 recordings which, 60 years later, continue to inspire listeners and other musicians. | | | Jimmie Rodgers' musical upbringing was as checkered as his home life. | | | As much as Jimmie Rodgers represented a break with past traditions in country music, typified in his parting of the ways with the Tenneva Ramblers, he also must be viewed as a point of common ground for devotees of many disparate musical idioms, including blues, old-time western, Hawaiian, jug band, and jazz. |
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| | Jimmie Rodgers: The Father of Country Music |
| | Rodgers was not the first musician to sing “Yo de lay hee-ho” between verses of his songs, but he made it such a trademark that some people assume country music had always included yodeling. | | | Country music, sometimes called hillbilly music, emerged in the early 20th century as a self-consciously traditional, nostalgic music of rural white people in the American South, stretching from Appalachia to Texas. | | | Jimmie Rodgers with fellow musician Clayton McMichen in Tupelo, Mississippi, in December 1929. |
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| | In the Country of Country |
| | Country musicians are generally very aware of their place in the history of the music. | | | The country charts were dominated by a series of handsome, video-friendly young swains dressed in boots, snug jeans, and the inevitable Stetsons that won them their nickname, "the hat acts." The music was similarly homogenized. | | | DeMent is writing country songs that Merle Haggard thinks are as good as anything he knows, yet most people who say they love country music have never heard of her. |
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| | OLDTIME COUNTRY AND BLUES MUSIC |
| | Jimmie Rodgers and Blind Lemon Jefferson were among the first to record a rural form of the blues. | | | HONKY TONK and other PRE-ROCK COUNTRY: 2 thrids of country music was taken up by western swing and bluegrass in the pre-rock ‘n’ roll era; the other third was a diverse set of styles that were offshoots from the other genres. | | | Oldtime music was never to become a success again on the country charts - rock ‘n’ roll meant that ALL music on ALL charts was to be cleaned up and the Nashville establishment willingly cleaned up country music. |
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| | Country music singer Hank Snow dead at 85 |
| | He was inducted into the halls of fame of the Country Music Association,the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Canadian Songwriters Association, and in 1997 a country music centre was opened in his honour in Liverpool. | | | Many other important singers would later cite Snow's influence, including Bob Dylan, who said one of his most important early influences was one of Snow's several albums of Jimmie Rodgers songs. | | | The death of country singer Hank Snow marks the passing of a major figure in the history of popular music. |
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| | Salon Obituary Country singer Hank Snow dies at 85 |
| | He recorded more than 40 songs that were in the top 10 of the country music charts and sold an estimated 70 million records. | | | His self-penned "I'm Movin' On" was on the country music charts for almost a year in 1950, including 21 weeks at No. 1. | | | Snow, known as "the singing ranger" because of his flamboyant cowboy attire, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1979. |
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| | Century of Country |
| | Ray Lunsford’s mandolin, a long-time standard feature on Jimmie’s recordings, was heard somewhat less on the Mercury sides and Rusty York’s lead and steel guitar work became more prominent, being especially notable on the 1962 Jimmie Rodgers tribute album. | | | Jimmie made the move largely to better plug his songs in the Nashville market. | | | In addition to singing and writing, Skinner endeared himself to a generation of Country fans for his large record store, where during the 50’s and 60’s, one could often find favorite discs that might be otherwise almost unobtainable. |
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| | BILL MONROE |
| | In the 1960s, there was a big revival in country music and Monroe had a newfound popularity and saw his influence touch many artists from Flatt & Scruggs to Elvis Presley to Tom T. Hall. | | | The song was originally by Bill’s idol, Jimmie Rodgers. | | | The 1950s saw trends move away from the traditional forms of country music to a more country-pop sound. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Recordings 1927-1933 [Box set]: Music |
| | Merle Haggard once recorded a whole album of Jimmie's songs and new covers of his songs are still recorded on a regular basis. | | | In Jimmie's version of Frankie and Johnny, Frankie kills Johnny after discovering him being unfaithful and is sentenced to death in an electric chair. | | | Jimmie only recorded 111 songs, although altenative versions exist of some of them. |
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| | Celebrity Birthdays - Boston.com |
| | Country singer June Forester of the Forester Sisters is 49. | | | Singer Sarah Bettens of K's Choice is 33. | | | Country drummer Marty Mitchell of Ricochet is 36. |
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| | Those Were the Days, Today in History - May 17 |
| | Jimmie Rodgers recorded over 100 songs and sold millions of 78 RPM records. | | | 1933 - Country singer Jimmie Rodgers began to record a series of 24 songs for RCA Victor Records on this day. | | | His yodel became a trademark of his music. |
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| | TISBA guest book - A Bravenet.com Guestbook |
| | I'm working on my fourth album at the moment, the album has a mix of country and country rock and will be available shortly... | | | Singer songwriter, recording artist, living in the Highlands of Scotland. | | | and i have to admit that though i had spent plenty of time in meridian growing up and had heard that jimmie was from meridian, as well as heard about him elsewhere, i had never listened to his music. |
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| | My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers |
| | From the moment I put that record on the phonograph and first heard Jimmie Rodgers singing 'Moonlight and Skies,' I was hooked. | | | "Jimmie Rodgers was my inspiration to become a country music entertainer back when I was growing up in Nova Scotia. | | | Despite a recording career that lasted only six years (1927-1933) and ended with Rodgers's untimely death from tuberculosis, it is safe to say that in many ways Jimmie Rodgers is still an active presence in country music. |
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| | Steve Forbert, Any Old Time; Various Artists, The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers |
| | The album is brilliantly bookended with what could be the two archetypal Rodgers songs, "Waiting For a Train" and "My Carolina Sunshine Girl"; the first a blues tune about riding the rails, the last a parlor-piano love song (and one that's not covered that often to boot). | | | Whether it's a bunch of different musicians playing their own versions of Rodgers' impressive canon, or one artist with a skillful band letting the songs speak for themselves, it's clear just why the Singing Brakeman is still remembered today. | | | The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers was the only release from Bob Dylan's Egyptian label. |
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| | Tower Records - Honkytonk Hitman - Mike Rodgers |
| | This is the real life story of Mike Rodgers, a country music singer and professional boxer who has 25 wins - 20 by kayo - and only two losses. | | | This is real country music for real country music fans. | | | As his debut album becomes legendary among real country music fans, he continues to work with acclaimed producer and hit songwriter (Reba, Clay Walker, Diamond Rio) Robert Ellis Orall writing and recording. |
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| | Jimmie Skinner - Doin' My Time |
| | Skinner stripped country music to its raw essentials, much as Sun Records' Sam Phillips later did with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and especially Johnny Cash and His Tennessee Two. | | | Skinner thrashed his guitar with an aggressive upstroke, creating a backbeat that a generation of rockabilly singers later emulated. | | | Once one of country music's most beloved, best-known figures, Skinner is barely remembered today. |
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| | Country Music Hall of Fame |
| | In 1963, the CMA announced that a Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was to be built on Music Row in Nashville. | | | The Music Row location of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum was closed December 31, 2000. | | | Featured exhibits include Sing Me Back Home: A Journey through Country Music, with a collection of original recordings, instruments, costumes, photographs, et cetera, as well as the Hall of Fame Rotunda, which displays the plaques of all the inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame. |
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| | Bill Neely CD Available from Lost Art Records |
| | Until his death from leukemia in 1990, Neely regularly performed an authentic brand of Texas country and country-blues music in Austin’s clubs and at it’s festivals, setting the stage for a burgeoning scene of notable singer-songwriters to follow. | | | Playing around Austin from the mid-1960s through the early 1970’s, the band performed a variety of traditional country and folk tunes, including a number of blues and Texas-country songs written by Neely. | | | The CD also includes Rock ‘n’ Roll Baby, a tune Neely says he penned in 1941, leading to his claim of having “started rock ‘n’ roll.” On the CD Neely covers Jimmie Rodgers’ Hobo Bill’s Last Ride, and Ella Speed, a song written by Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb, a close friend and musical influence. |
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| | National Traditional Country Music Association - Two Halls Of Fame |
| | Fiddle music, sometimes known as the "devil's music" was the backbone of our settler's entertainment needs, and the old songs and tunes still live on in the hands of the young who find this particular American musical art form still exciting, still enjoyable, still necessary. | | | To be inducted into "America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame," the potential subject must be nominated by someone already in the Hall of Fame. | | | There, before thousands of approving fans gathered to witness the event, they are honored by their fans and peers, and officially inducted into "America's Old Time Country Music Hall of Fame." |
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| | 100 Greatest Roots Of Rock Artists |
| | He did country, gospel, blues, soul, protest songs, and pure unbridled rock and somehow made it all seem tangibly connected, which only reconfirmed what he did originally back at Sun, which is bring all the various roots of rock together as a singular style. | | | His "Elvis From Memphis" record might be the single most versatile LP of all-time in terms of diversity of material. | | | Sonny Til and The Orioles (RandB vocal group) |
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| | MSN Encarta - Jimmie Rodgers |
| | Rodgers, Jimmie (1897– 1933), American country singer, songwriter, and guitarist, born James Charles Rodgers in Meridian, Mississippi. | | | Become a subscriber today and gain access to: |
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| | Vassar Clements MP3 Downloads - Vassar Clements Music Downloads - Vassar Clements Music Videos |
| | This rewarding but little-known CD reminds listeners that jazz and "hillbilly music" can fit together quite nicely. | | | The name Hillbilly Jazz might sound like an oxymoron to some, but when you think about it, jazz and "hillbilly music" have made for a healthy combination from time to time. | | | The seminal country singer Jimmie Rodgers featured Louis Armstrong as a vocalist on some of his classic 1920s recordings, and Western swing came about when, in the 1930s, Bob Wills and others combined jazz with country and bluegrass. |
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| | Overstock.com, save up to 80% every day! |
| | In 1952, Frizzell recorded an entire album of Rodgers` classics. | | | This handsome reissue, complete with photos and liner notes, contains that legendary album-in its original mono mixes-along with the bonus track "Sleep Baby Sleep." Frizzell wisely avoids mimicking Rodgers` inimitable phrasing, instead singing gems like "Blue Yodel No. 2" and "Brakeman`s Blues" as if they`re originals. | | | Until his death in 1975, however, Frizzell maintained that he had only one influence of his own: Jimmie Rodgers, the 1920s proto-country singer known as The Singing Brakeman. |
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| | Articles - 1933 |
| | February 18 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer and artist, wife of John Lennon | | | February 21 - Nina Simone, American singer (d. | | | Jimmie Angel becomes the first foreigner to see the Angel Falls, they are named after him. |
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| | Official Mississippi Music Guide |
| | Musicians/Singers: To find out more, go to this website: Mississippi Musicians, Singers and Songwriters | | | Dorothy Moore - Jackson - Blues and RandB Singer | | | Conway Twitty - Friars Point - Country Singer/Songwriter |
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| | ipedia.com: Jimmie Rodgers Article |
| | Jimmie Rodgers was the name of two singers: | | | Jimmie Rodgers was the name of two singers : Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie Rodgers Note that there was also a Jimmy Rogers, a blues singer born in 1924.... | | | Note that there was also a Jimmy Rogers (note the spelling), a blues singer born in 1924. |
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| | Snow, Hank |
| | He returned to Canada briefly in 1947 and 1949 and then settled permanently in the USA, continuing to record for RCA Victor. | | | He made that city his home and appeared with the Opry for more than 40 years. | | | In 1950, with the assistance of fellow Rodgers disciple Ernest Tubb, Snow became a regular performer at the Grand Ole Opry on WSM in Nashville. |
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| | Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897 - May 26, 1933) -- James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers was the first country music superstar. | | | Jimmie Rodgers Jimmie Rodgers was the name of two singers: Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) 1.1 Quotation 1.2 External Link 2 Jimmie Rodgers (pop singer) Jimmie Rodgers (country singer) 1. | | | A rise in Korean consumers' demand for Chilean wine rose 10-fold to place second in the country's imported wine market in January. |
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| | Jimmie Rodgers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | Jimmie Rodgers could be one of the following: | | | Not to be confused with Jimmy Rogers, a blues singer, nor Jimmy Rogers the author. |
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