Meeting Jimmy Rodgers

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Barry Mazor investigates the life of Jimmie Rodgers, a vaudevillian and railroad worker from Mississippi whose brief career over 80 years ago has had an enormous impact on American music, from country to rock and roll, jazz, blues, bluegrass, and folk. Meeting Jimmy Rodgers is the first book to explore the legacy of the "Singing Brakeman" who has inspired many singer-songwriters, including Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Beck.

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