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Publisher
World Music Network
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jimmie Rodgers was the 'Singing Brakeman', a Mississippi boy who used to work the railroads, done good. With his trademark yodel, he brought so-called hillbilly music into the mainstream. In a life as colourful as the songs he sang, the 'father of country music', rose from obscurity to create a new level of international stardom for American music before his tragic early death"--Container.
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