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.

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