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By Carrie Cecil Williamson Rodgers

Initially released in 1935, this affectionate biography was once for many years the one specific account of the lifetime of the "Father of kingdom Music." the recent variation comprises pictures, index, and a brand new, serious advent by way of award-winning Rodgers biographer Nolan Porterfield.Distributed for the rustic tune starting place Press

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Jimmie, with his older brothers Walter and Talmage, goes to live for a short while with his father's relatives at Scooba, Mississippi, and Geiger, Alabama. 1904 October 20, Aaron marries Ida Smith, a Pine Springs widow, moves to outskirts of Meridian, a few miles away. 19051911 At odds with his stepmother, returns with his brother Tal to Pine Springs to live with relatives of their mother. 1911 April, wins amateur talent contest in Meridian, leaves town with a traveling medicine show. " Takes job with a clothing merchant in West Blocton, Alabama.

More often than not, she stayed behind, usually in Meridian, where at least there was "family" and some semblance of order and stability. For seven hard years they shifted about, enduring the endless burdens and humiliations of poverty, sickness, and failure. " But it cannot have been as light and bearable as she makes it seem, and surely the weight of it wore no lighter with the warnings of family and friends ringing in her ears. " Jimmie Rodgers, of course, took both feast and famine in stride, but it is much to Carrie's credit that she somehow handled success with as much poise and gumption as she had borne hardship.

He was going places, seeing things, doing things. Carefree, happy always, when answering a call he reached first for banjo, mandolin or ukelele. When he wasn't "riding the decks" singing, testing his lungs against the rumbling, swaying box cars, he spent his time in the waycar plinking darkey melodies to admiring crew buddies. He didn't suspect, then, that often those older men deliberately shifted many of his duties to their own shoulders, thus leaving the young brakie free to plink away to his heart's contentand their delight.

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