Heart of Cygnus
USA
Formed: 1897
Died: 26 May 1933
Genres: Country
Styles: Traditional Country, Yodeling
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His brass plaque in the Country Music Hall of Fame reads, "Jimmie Rodgers' name stands foremost in the country music field as the man who started it all." This is a fair assessment. The "Singing Brakeman" and the "Mississippi Blue Yodeler," whose six-year career was cut short by tuberculosis, became the first nationally known star of country music and the direct influence of many later performers, from Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, and Hank Williams to Lefty Frizzell and Merle Haggard. Rodgers sang about rounders and gamblers, bounders and ramblers -...
See also
- Louis Armstrong (74)
Similar artists
- Merle Haggard (111)
- Ernest Tubb (31)
- Hank Snow (4)
- the Carter Family (4)
- Lefty Frizzell (2)
- Jimmie Davis (0)
- Cliff Carlisle (0)
- Gene Autry (0)
- Roy Acuff (0)
Followers
- Merle Haggard (111)
- Joan Baez (67)
- Slim Dusty (55)
- Ernest Tubb (31)
- Hank Williams (11)
- Blasters (11)
- Mississippi John Hurt (7)
- Jimmie Dale Gilmore (5)
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott (4)
- Lefty Frizzell (2)
- Bob Wills (1)
- Boxcar Willie (0)
- Hank Thompson (0)
- Jimmie Davis (0)
- Gene Autry (0)
- Webb Pierce (-3)
Performed Songs By
- Shelly Lee Alley (0)
- Kelly Harrell (0)
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