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Jack learns about the reluctantly influential Elsie McWilliams, who wrote 39 songs for the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, just to help out her brother-in-law.
Songs Featured:
Jimmie Rodgers - You and my old guitar
Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)
Jimmie Rodgers - Sailor's Plea
Jimmie Rodgers - My Little Lady
Jimmie Rodgers - Lullaby Yodel
Jimmie Rodgers - I'm Lonely and Blue
Jimmie Rodgers - Daddy and Home
Jimmie Rodgers - My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans
Jimmie Rodgers - Everybody Does it in Hawaii
King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band - Everybody Does it in Hawaii
Jimmie Rodgers - Tuck Away my Lonesome Blues
Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - The Wonderful City
Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - Jimmie Rodgers Meets the Carter Family
Ernest Tubb - Walkin' the Floor over You
Ernest Tubb - The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers
Ernest Tubb - The Last Thoughts of Jimmie Rodgers
Ernest Tubb - Since the Black Cat Crossed my Path
Carrie Rodgers - When the Evening Shadows Fall
References:
Bufwack, M. A., & Oermann, R. K. (1993). Finding her voice: The saga of women in country music. Crown.
Green, Douglas M. (1974) Interview with Elsie McWilliams. Courtesy of the Country Music Foundation.
Mazor, B. (2009). Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : How America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century. Oxford University Press.
Porterfield, N. (2007). Jimmie Rodgers: the life and times of America's blue yodeler. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
Rodgers, C. (1995). My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers: Vol. 2nd ed. Vanderbilt University Press.
Wynne, B. (2014). In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music. LSU Press.
Support Women in Music:
Country Soul Songbook
Connect with Jack:
Instagram @wildwoodflowerpod
Support Jack
www.venmo.com/u/Jack-Peterson-110
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Jack learns about the reluctantly influential Elsie McWilliams, who wrote 39 songs for the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, just to help out her brother-in-law.
Songs Featured:
Jimmie Rodgers - You and my old guitar
Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas)
Jimmie Rodgers - Sailor's Plea
Jimmie Rodgers - My Little Lady
Jimmie Rodgers - Lullaby Yodel
Jimmie Rodgers - I'm Lonely and Blue
Jimmie Rodgers - Daddy and Home
Jimmie Rodgers - My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans
Jimmie Rodgers - Everybody Does it in Hawaii
King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band - Everybody Does it in Hawaii
Jimmie Rodgers - Tuck Away my Lonesome Blues
Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - The Wonderful City
Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - Jimmie Rodgers Meets the Carter Family
Ernest Tubb - Walkin' the Floor over You
Ernest Tubb - The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers
Ernest Tubb - The Last Thoughts of Jimmie Rodgers
Ernest Tubb - Since the Black Cat Crossed my Path
Carrie Rodgers - When the Evening Shadows Fall
References:
Bufwack, M. A., & Oermann, R. K. (1993). Finding her voice: The saga of women in country music. Crown.
Green, Douglas M. (1974) Interview with Elsie McWilliams. Courtesy of the Country Music Foundation.
Mazor, B. (2009). Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : How America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century. Oxford University Press.
Porterfield, N. (2007). Jimmie Rodgers: the life and times of America's blue yodeler. Univ. Press of Mississippi.
Rodgers, C. (1995). My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers: Vol. 2nd ed. Vanderbilt University Press.
Wynne, B. (2014). In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music. LSU Press.
Support Women in Music:
Country Soul Songbook
Connect with Jack:
Instagram @wildwoodflowerpod
Support Jack
www.venmo.com/u/Jack-Peterson-110