Meeting Jimmie Rodgers
How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
- Author: Mazor, Barry
The story of Rodgers' enormous influence, bursting with names of stars, stalwarts, and one-hit wonders, and featuring discographical endnotes for most chapters, is the immensely piquant and satisfying... — More…
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Contents
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Meeting Jimmie Rodgers HalfWay
- 1. The Man Who Walked Into Southern Show Business
- 2. Close to the Ground: The Singing Brakeman
- 3. America's Blue Yodeler No. 1: This White Guy Sings Blues, Too
- 4. America's Blue Yodeler No. 2: Instigator of Blue Yodelmania
- 5. International Multimedia Star
- 6. Doomed Singer-Songwriter with Guitar
- 7. Aftermath: The Late, Great Jimmie Rodgers
- 8. South by Southwest: An Easterner in a Cowboy Hat
- 9. Back East: The Hillbilly Echo, 1933-1947
- 10. Some Sort of Folksinger?
- 11. The Father of Country Music
- 12. Rough and Rowdy Ways: To the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- 13. Sentiments in Context: The Return of Vaudeville Jimmie
- 14. High-Powered Mamas: Women & the Music of Jimmie
- 15. Down the Old Road to Home
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index