Jimmie Rodgers Collection, The

He has been called the Father of Country Music, the Singing Brakeman, and America's Blue Yodeler. Jimmie Rodgers, one of the first recording artists to sella million records, combined country, blues, Tin Pan Alley and jazz to create the foundation of modern popular American music. Experience and enjoy the music of this legendary songwriter/musician with this terrific collection of 26 ofhis best songs: Any Old Time * Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas) * Blue Yodel No . 3 (Evening Sun Yodel) * Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) * The Brakeman's Blues (Yodeling the Blues Away) * Dreaming with Tears in My Eyes * Frankie and Johnny * High Powered Mama * Mississippi Moon * My Old Pal * Pistol Packin' Papa * Southern Cannonball * Yodeling Cowboy * and more. Includes a biography, a selected discog