You Voted: Greatest Country Song Reveled Nov 12, 2009
T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1), by Jimmie Rodgers Related. 1. (ABC News)
Laptop for every Niuean child Oct 17, 2009
Secretariat of the Pacific Community director general Jimmie Rodgers was quoted by the AFP news wire as saying that the laptops "have the potential to revolutionise education in ways that are difficult to imagine.". Originally the brainchild of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Laboratory, the effort has grown to garner the support of large corporations, including Google. (BBC News -- Technology)
Johnnys list turns into Rosanne Cashs disc Oct 9, 2009
Cash begins with Miss the Mississippi and You, which the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, recorded in 1932. She ends with the Carter Familys Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow, which always reminds Cash of her step-aunt Helen Carter, who taught her the guitar. (MSNBC -- Music)
Celebrity birthdays for Sept. 13-19 Sep 10, 2009
Sept. 18: Singer Jimmie Rodgers is 76. Actor Robert Blake is 76. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Kawakami vs. Santana one-sided? Aug 21, 2009
Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street Got in my nose As we carried our ladders down the street With the wrought-iron gate rows I went home and listened to Jimmie Rodgers in my lunch-break Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner And went straight back to work. Oh, Sam was up on top And I was on the bottom with the v We went for lemonade and Paris buns At the shop and broke for tea I collected from the lady And I cleaned the fanlight inside-out I was blowing saxophone on the... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Ralph Grasso is pouring himself into The Velvet Guitars. From left, Colton Kreuger, Trey Harris, Samantha Simmons, Grasso, Don Ageton and Ed Pennell. Photo by Ellen Sussman | Special to the Green Valley News Aug 19, 2009
Fate, luck, talent, dedication, hard work and being at the right place at the right time have given guitarist Ralph Grasso a professional life with great names in 20th century music Frank Sinatra, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, Hugo Montenegro, Andy Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald and others. Now living in Quail Creek, Grasso, 75, tells it like it is: I was not born a gifted person. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
First Farmers & Merchants Bank’s performing arts series opens Saturday Aug 9, 2009
In addition, he made his mark as a country musician, winning his first contest in 1978 at a Jimmie Rodgers Festival in Meridian, Miss. Today, McDonald continues to perform and appear in folk-life festivals, state fairs and music festivals. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Mississippi's got talent Jul 19, 2009
"When many of our famous writers, including Faulkner and Richard Wright were coming out, musicians were having their own renaissance - Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Jimmie Rodgers. "And that has continued with the new musicians. " Whether new, old, alive or dead, many of Mississippi's greatest singers shared the same talent incubator: church. "Church is where they learn how to sing and perform," Wilson says. "Go to any small town, and the community centers are often having gospel singing. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Haggard may have best years yet ahead Jul 9, 2009
He referenced Jimmie Rodgers, too, and did enough country swing to make you want to hit the dance floor. Haggard asked women in the crowd to join him on the "girl singer" parts because his wife was sick and couldn't perform Wednesday night. (Sioux City Journal)
On the Road with Bob and Sheila Everhart Jun 20, 2009
"Country music today, or at least what they call country music," says Bob Everhart, the lead singer of the duo, "is definitely not the country music we grew up with. Today it's mostly 50's rock and roll, and that's a great tragedy for those who love the music of Hank Williams, Sr., and Jimmie Rodgers, and Roy Acuff, and all those that made country music what it once was. All of the sincerity and honesty seems to have been removed from what we hear as country music today.". ADVERTISEMENT. (Atlantic News-Telegraph, IO)
Neil Young puts his all in long-awaited 'Archives' Jun 3, 2009
" Immersed in the second volume, which is expected in two or three years, Young also has mapped out the third and fourth and continues to mine sources for buried nuggets. He was dismayed to discover the BBC had destroyed several early Young performances. But his search for rare Buffalo Springfield concert footage turned up a Hollywood Bowl show, and a hi-res version of Mr. Soul soon will be available as a Blu-ray download. "There are so many great artists I'd love to see fleshed out this way,... (USA Today -- Life)
Country Music: Too Much Freedom Loving? May 15, 2009
Jimmie Rodgers- influenced by and influenced the earliest blues musicians is considered the father of country. He, like Johnny Cash among other greats, sang from the heart stories people related to. (Townhall.com)
Musician to teach yodeling Apr 17, 2009
The musical stylings of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams have always been attractive to John Lilly. "Ever since I was 2 or 3 years old it's always been the music I've been drawn to," said Lilly, a country-blues musician and winner of the 2005 Hank Williams Songwriting Contest. (Daily Collegian, PA)
Music review: Kristofferson fans Haggard flame Apr 4, 2009
His version of Jimmie Rodgers' rarely performed "T.B. Blues" was a stunning demonstration of nuance and command, exactly the sort of material only Haggard would have in his repertoire, perfectly suited to this kind of performance. He did plenty of his standard country and western chart hits - "Sing Me Back Home," "Mama Tried," "The Bottle Let Me Down," "Today I Started Loving You Again," "Silver Wings" - but it was lesser-known songs like "Rainbow Stew," "If I Could Only Fly" or "I Wish I Could... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Country star Merle Haggard stands tall Mar 30, 2009
As his career nears the half-century mark, Haggard's imprint is as deeply etched on the music as those of the spiritual forebears he so admires - Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell - and he has lived out his Bakersfield childhood dreams beyond imagination. But right now, the country music immortal is feeling very mortal. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Alaska honky-tonker returns Feb 15, 2009
Maybe some old country by Jimmie Rodgers. "We're really just roots music with an edge," Porter said. (Anchorage Daily News)
Haggard takes optimism personally Feb 8, 2009
The Grammys sit below a plaque he was awarded by the Jimmie Rodgers Foundation for his contributions to upholding the "blue yodeler" tradition of Rodgers, often referred to as "the father of modern country music" and one of Haggard's heroes. A couple of DVDs documenting another of his major influences, western swing pioneer Bob Wills, occupy the lower shelf of the coffee table in front of him. (Montana Standard, MT)
