The Essential Jimmie Rodgers

by Jimmie Rodgers

The Essential Jimmie Rodgers cover art

An expertly remastered overview of the 'Father of Country Music', collecting his most pivotal recordings from the late 1920s and early 1930s. The tracks showcase his revolutionary blending of traditional hillbilly folk with African American blues structures, punctuated by his signature 'blue yodel'. It is a fundamentally crucial document for understanding the commercial genesis of the country genre.

Genres

  • Country Yodeling

Tracklist

  1. Away Out On The Mountain
  2. Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas)
  3. Daddy And Home
  4. Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea
  5. In The Jailhouse Now
  6. Memphis Yodel
  7. My Old Pal
  8. Blue Yodel No. 2 (Lovin' Gal Lucille)
  9. Sleep Baby, Sleep
  10. The Brakeman's Blues (Yodelling The Blues Away)
  11. The Sailor's Pleas
  12. My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
  13. Never No Mo' Blues
  14. Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues)
  15. I'm Lonely And Blue
  16. Waiting For A Train
  17. Frankie And Johnnie
  18. Pistol Packin' Papa
  19. Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)
  20. T.B. Blues