Rodgers’ recordings sold over 12 million copies during his lifetime, making him one of the most commercially successful ...

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The week-long Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival kicks off at the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience in downtown Meridian on Monday, May 12, with an evening of Mississippi music featuring ...

Douglas B. Green Hand-colored poster advertising Gene Autry’s tribute song, “The Death of Jimmie Rodgers,” 1933. After he landed a spot on radio station WLS in Chicago, Autry dropped the ...

Country singer Jimmie Rodgers and bluegrass musicians the Carter Family circa 1930 in Poor Valley, Virginia. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) In Bristol, Virginia, there is a living monument ...