MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - Day three of the Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival took over the MAX courtyard with the Jimmie Rodgers Talent Competition. The Jimmie Rogers Talent Show has been going since ...

(WTOK) -The 71st annual Jimmies Rodgers Music Festival continued Monday night ... This is a week-long festival, as Tuesday night’s event is the Jimmie Jam Session with guest host Steve Wilkerson.

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.

The Jimmie Rodgers Foundation will have new leadership going into the 72nd Jimmie Rodgers Festival after the foundation Board of Directors announced the departure of Executive Director Leslie Lee.

pioneering music producer and publisher Ralph Peer, whose recording sessions in Bristol discovered Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family – and whose promotion of “race” and “hillbilly ...