The Leonard Lopate Show: Meeting Jimmy Rodgers

Meeting Jimmy Rodgers

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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Barry Mazor

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Barry Mazor from Nashville, TN

I've never heard a take of the recording with converstaion attached to it, but the session took place in Hollywood.

Jul. 24 2009 03:18 PM

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Joe Adams from Bergen County, New Jersey

Please ask Mr. Mazor about Jimmie's masterpiece recording of "Blue Yodel No. 9" in which Jimmie is backed by the great Satchmo on cornet and his wife Lil on piano. I believe at the end of one of the takes Jimmie says "Thank you Miss Lil" which, considering the built in racism of the time, is amazing. Would Mr. Mazor know where this was recorded?
Probably up north.

Jul. 22 2009 11:25 AM

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