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

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 ...

Peer’s success with Black blues belter ... and his sister-in-law, guitar innovator Maybelle, as well as a slender fellow with a high, yodeling voice named Jimmie Rodgers. It’s hard to believe ...

One of the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Robert Johnson (1911-1938) was a legendary blues musician ... Lonnie Johnson, or Jimmie Rodgers. Like many of his peers, Johnson ...

Based around the early and captivating sounds of an amped-up electric guitar and ... post-war Chicago blues artists, including Junior Wells, Muddy Waters, and Jimmy Rogers. Among his hits were ...

Returning to the Jazz Bar for the seventh year, Scottish acoustic guitar and double-bass ... Lowell Fulson, Jimmy Rogers and Memphis Slim, but also comes up to date by including songs by modern-day ...

“An alum of the Brother Jack McDuff University of Jazz Guitar, John Hart can burn his way through blues changes on a level that’s right up there with fellow graduates George Benson and Pat Martino.” ...

East was only three weeks from graduation in 1978 when fusion-jazz guitar giant John McLaughlin phoned ... by everyone from Barry White, Kenny Rogers and Billy Preston to saxophonist Stanley ...