Jimmie Rodgers Born in 1897 in Geiger Ala. Died May 26 1933. Jimmie joined the railroad at 14 and worked all over the country absorbing the music of the towns, farms and railroad ballads and especsially the blues of the era. He is called the father of country music today. He was the first person to be elected to the country music hall of fame. He died young of a lung hemorrhage from TB at the age of 36. Between 1921 and 1927 he sold more records than Enrico Caruso. He had a number of songs he called the blue yodels some of those were "T for Texas"," Muleskinner blues"(yodel #8) and "In the jailhouse now".
