Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933), known as "The Mississippi Blue Yodeler" and "The Singing Brakeman," was the first nationally-known country music star. He influenced many later performers from Hank Snow and Ernest Tubb to Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard....

Singer and musician Jimmie Rodgers, who rose to national fame through his recordings in the late 1920s and early 1930s, is profoundly connected to a uniquely American form of popular music—country. Since the 1950s, he has been known as the...

Jimmie Rodgers (September 8, 1897 -– May 26, 1933) known as The Singing Brakeman and America's Blue Yodeler was the first country music superstar, resulting in another commonly used nickname: The Father of Country...

Jimmie Rodgers was born and bred in Meridian, Miss., but he was living in Washington when his third record, "Blue Yodel," became a huge hit in 1927. It was an announcer on WTFF, a local station where Rodgers had a weekly show, who dubbed...

James Charles Rodgers was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in 1897. His mother, Eliza, died when he was four years old. After that, he was off riding the rods with his father, a foreman on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. By the time he...

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 18, the 261st day of 2007. There are 104 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 18, 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.On this date:In 1759, the French formally surrendered Quebec to the British.In...

Depending on how you look at it, Marty Stuart is either a genius for saving all those cowboy boots, rhinestone suits and flashy string ties, or he's a pack rat with a taste for garish clothes.His collection of country music memorabilia reflects not only Stuart's...