Jimmie Rodgers: The Railroad Worker who started Country Music

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Күн бұрын

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@robbie5984 2 ай бұрын

How cool man. He is not talked about enough. Thanks for this one.

@JaguarKwikE 2 ай бұрын

Decades before he was born my grandfather was playing country music and he was born in Kentucky 1874 to Mountain hill Williams from Tazewell County Virginia

@eboticus3421 15 күн бұрын

@@JaguarKwikE thats pretty fkn cool!!!

@whs-waterfox7034 2 ай бұрын

"Well, I woke up this mornin' it was drizzlin' rain. Around the curve come a passenger train. Heard somebody yodelin' a hobo moan but Jimmy he's dead, he's been a long time gone." -Waylon Jennings "Waymore's Blues".

@EddieRussell-b2q 2 ай бұрын

The late Henry young , the man responsible for the Jimmie Rodgers postage stamp would love this. Top class

@Orourkebanjo 2 ай бұрын

Dude this was a very needed video. He is too underrated/overlooked. An absolute legend. Us Americans owe a lot to him for his contributions to music. You should do one on Charlie Poole. He is another legendary character.

@ChainsGoldMask 2 ай бұрын

You have my full attention for any subject. Your videos just keep getting better! ❤🍻

@dreamsR4real 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful tribute vid! The first ‘rock star’ of America!!

@Woody_Florida 2 ай бұрын

He really was the first "rock star" when you think about it! He lived large and had a good time while the ride lasted.

@longgone696 2 ай бұрын

There's so much great country music right now. There's a resurgence of authentic artists like Benjamin Tod, Colter Wall, and Vincent Neil Emerson.

@Tom-ec4pl 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Eastern European voice over Dude. Excellent production. Love me some " Yodel No9".

@PunkTome 2 ай бұрын

Western European*- .You're Welcome!

@Tom-ec4pl 2 ай бұрын

@PunkTome My sorry.

@eboticus3421 2 ай бұрын

Damn i love your video. Please keep on makin em!!!

@Precisionetica 2 ай бұрын

Lovely little doc 🎸

@serpentinesecrets6771 2 ай бұрын

Armstrong and Cash together is freaking awesome

@PUNKJUNKIE 2 ай бұрын

Another great one! Thanx tomé.its a great moment for woodie guthrie.

@PoetryETrain 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the ride!

@BlakeNix 2 ай бұрын

Nice tribute to such a legend.

@nw666tube 2 ай бұрын

Love this channel

@chuckokelley2448 2 ай бұрын

Well done my friend

@stephenedgecock 2 ай бұрын

Yes Jimmie Rogers & The Carter Family

@shredhead4604 2 ай бұрын

Rad Tome rad 🤘

@jerryleeelvisberryrichard6247 17 күн бұрын

Emmett Miller was a big influence to Bob Wills and Milton Brown too.

@keithcoeburn2163 2 ай бұрын

Granddaddy of Country Music..

@irishguyjg_2ndchancerecovery 2 ай бұрын

Thats awesome. He's got that Johnny Cash little guitar pic flick

@MusicalAddictionOnlineLessons 2 ай бұрын

You mean Johnny Cash got his 😉

@RodCalidge 2 ай бұрын

Lynyrd Skynyrd loved him. That's good enough for me.

@davidmccaffery7977 2 ай бұрын

The 1 and only 🇺🇸👏👍💪🎸

@mikewilder6728 2 ай бұрын

You should do a video on Junior Barnard, one of the true pioneer/architect of rock n' roll guitar. Also, Bill Carlisle.

@Woody_Florida 2 ай бұрын

Love me some Jimmie Rogers! Good stuff, dude invented his own way of singing country music. And i try to introduce more people to his music, i just wish there were more high quality recordings.

@donaldbutcher1260 2 ай бұрын

I love that a man with an Eastern European accent is telling us about country music 😮

@nakkiensio151 2 ай бұрын

Upcoming episodes Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings & Johnny Paycheck? 😇

@albertjanvanhoek294 2 ай бұрын

A few small additions. Louis Armstrong, seen and heard here with Johnny Cash, also accompanied Jimmie Rodgers (with his wife Lil Armstrong-Hardin). Blue Yodel # 9. His famous "Blue Yodels" would never have existed without the Blues. Many lyrics and melodies came directly from the Blues of the African Americans he heard. This is underexposed. There are also negative elements: Rodgers was involved in Vaudeville for a while. True. But what is left out: also as a "black faced" singer (in the horrible Jim Crow tradition). Incidentally, sometimes also in a Hawaiian outfit (photos in “Jimmie the Kid” / Mike Paris & Chris Comber). Rodgers became nationally famous and had and has many followers. Also some contemporary African American Blues singers loved his music. But he was certainly not the only one whose music was partly based on black Blues. For instance: someone like Frank Hutchison (vocal & slide guitar) is not very much known, but his recordings are certainly no less impressive than those of Rodgers. Finally: good that attention is paid to the important Jimmie Rodgers. Important not only to Country music, but to American music in general.

@aisforapple2494 2 ай бұрын

Now do Woody Guthrie!

@PotterPossum1989 2 ай бұрын

He actually wasn't the first country artist, that distinction goes to Fiddlin' John Carson, who recorded in 1923 and in later years, fiddler Eck Robertson who had a recording in 1922 throughout later years, and before it all, Vernon Dalhart (real name Marion Slaughter), who had the first million selling record I want to say in 1927, but don't quote me exactly on that. He was actually an operatic singer who branched out into country music because that's what the country wanted to hear at the time.

@Peterblack12 2 ай бұрын

No one man invented county

@javi__... Ай бұрын

Its very possible that rogers might be the most important musical artist in american music.

@areamusicale 2 ай бұрын

How did yodeling from switzerland get into to usa country music ?

@thepostapocalyptictrio4762 2 ай бұрын

Swiss and Norwegian immigrants moving to Appalachia.

@DavidA.-bv8xy 2 ай бұрын

Called "The Singing Brakeman" in his time. Thanks for acknowledging his railroad legacy...Now, which railroads did Jimmie work for?

@PunkTome 2 ай бұрын

Mobile and Ohio Railroad was were he started as a waterboy (the images displayed are from that companie). I don't know the others (if there where others)

@EDM_5150 2 ай бұрын

Tome what happened to the country for punks video?

@garypointing5825 2 ай бұрын

Jerry lee lewis, the man who influenced the beatles, the stones, Tom Jones...and all the other people who know anything about music. Jerry idolized him

@Criticalthinker0515 2 ай бұрын

Nice

@Leslie-es5ij 2 ай бұрын

Wish I had more of his records ! But one thing I have a question about is: Did A . P. Carter pay for any of the songs he found ?

@fosterhart2013 2 ай бұрын

You may designate him "father of country music" ! Some would claim Vernon Dalhart (Prisoner Song) and I've read this before ! Mr Dalhart began his recording career on Ediison Cylinder records ! I think maybe that predates any of Jimmies recording

@leolacasse6278 2 ай бұрын

Though Jimmie was the second county singer to be recorded, he became known as the father of country music. However, country music in the US goes back to Scotland and Ireland, and God only knows how many centuries. It is 100% poor white music, although Ken Burns would have you believe there was a significant black influence. The truth is this music is as white as you can get. Yet, Ironically, the father of country music, J. Rodgers, sang almost pure black. It is hard to believe, but when you listen to Rodgers, you''re hearing some anonymous black man, whose style and music it really is---No one else, not even 'ol Hank shows the slightest black influence in their music.

@JEEDUHCHRI Ай бұрын

Agreed.