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Various – Sounds Like Jimmy Rodgers – Stars That Followed The Master – 4 CD

24,20 18,15

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Track Listing:

CD1:
W. Lee O'Daniel: 1. Yodeling Ranger - 2:30   2. Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues - 2:32   Daddy John Love: 3. My Little Red Ford - 2:22   4. Cotton Mill Blues - 2:20   Fleming & Townsend: 5. Gonna Quit Drinkin' When I Die - 3:05   The Rhythm Wreckers: 6. Never No Mo' Blues - 2:41   7. My Lovin' Gal Lucille - 2:48   Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers: 8. Wind Swept Desert (Desert Blues) - 2:50   Bill Carlisle: 9. Rattlin' Daddy - 3:03   Val & Pete: 10. Yodel Blues, Pt. 1 - 3:15   11. Yodel Blues, Pt. 2 - 2:51   Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys: 12. Never No More Hard Times Blues - 2:23   Riley Puckett: 13. Sleep Baby Sleep - 3:02   14. Away Out on the Mountain - 3:08   15. The Moonshiner's Dream - 2:56   16. 'Way Out There - 2:46   17. Back on the Texas Plains - 2:48   18. Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia - 2:29   Buddy Jones: 19. Mean Old Lonesome Blues - 3:09   20. The Women ('Bout to Make a Wreck Out of Me) - 2:53   21. Shreveport County Jail Blues - 2:48   22. Dear Old Sunny South by the Sea - 2:50   Leon Chappelear: 23. Trifling Mama Blues - 2:34   Bill Simmons: 24. Rocky Mountain Blues - 2:50   25. Rocky Mountain Sweetheart - 3:04

CD2:
Gene Autry: 1. Blue Yodel No. 5 - 2:40   2. No One to Call Me Darling - 3:08   3. Frankie and Johnny - 2:44   4. Waiting for a Train - 2:41   5. California Blues - 2:35   6. Whisper Your Mother's Name - 3:10  7. Hobo Bill's Last Ride - 2:38   8. The Yodeling Hobo - 3:02   9. He's in the Jailhouse Now, No. 2 - 2:45   10. High Powered Mama - 2:59   11. Pistol Packin' Papa - 3:06   12. Any Old Time - 2:44   13. That's How I Got My Start - 3:11   14. Bear Cat Papa Blues - 2:51   15. Jimmie the Kid - 3:03   16. Travellin' Blues - 3:00   17. Jailhouse Blues - 2:47   18. Methodist Pie - 2:55   19. Dallas County Jail Blues - 3:03   20. T.B. Blues - 2:58   21. I'll Always Be a Rambler - 3:03   22. I'm Atlanta Bound - 2:41   23. High Steppin' Mama Blues - 2:43   24. Gangster's Warning - 2:54   25. Life of Jimmie Rodgers - 3:13

CD3:
The Texas Drifter: 1. The Drifter, Pt. 1 - 3:17   2. The Drifter, Pt. 2 - 3:09   3. At the End of the Hobo's Trail - 3:02   4. The Oklahoma Kid - 3:06   5. I Learned About Women from Her - 3:03   6. The Hobo's Last Letter - 2:25   7. Station H.O.B.O. - 3:06   8. Railroad Boomer - 2:49   9. The Tramp's Mother - 2:58   10. Mother-in-Law Blues - 3:21   11. Fortunes Galore - 2:59   12. Little Joe the Wrangler - 3:00   13. John Law and the Hobo - 3:19   14. The Prisoner's Song - 3:00   15. Cowboy's Lullaby - 3:25   16. The Wayward Son - 3:15   17. Reckless Tex - 3:08   18. Miss Jackson Tennessee - 3:01   19. The Yodelin' Teacher - 2:58   Bill Cox: 20. Jackson County - 3:01   21. When We Meet on the Beautiful Shore - 3:15   22. My Rough and Rowdy Ways - 2:30   23. A High Silk Hat and a Gold Top Walking Cane - 2:55   24. Lay My Head Beneath the Rose - 3:03   25. Where the Red, Red Roses Grow - 3:04

CD4:
Cliff Carlisle: 1. The Cowboy's Dying Dream - 2:32 Stuart Hamblen: 2. Wrong Keyhole - 2:30   Frankie Marvin: 3. I'm in the Jailhouse Now - 3:07   4. I'm Gonna Yodel My Way to Heaven - 2:58   Ramblin' Red Lowery: 5. Bum on the Bum - 2:59   6. Ramblin' Red's Memphis Yodel, No. 1 - 2:48   Ernest Tubb: 7. The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers - 3:14   8. The Last Thoughts of Jimmie Rodgers - 3:01   9. Married Man Blues - 2:31   10. Mean Old Bed Bug Blues - 2:36   11. My Mother Is Lonely - 2:58   12. The Right Train to Heaven - 3:31   13. The T.B. Is Whipping Me - 2:48   14. Since That Black Cat Crossed My Path - 2:35   Wilf Carter (Montana Slim): 15. Yodeling Hillbilly - 2:58   16. The Old Barn Dance - 2:41   17. Rootin' Tootin' Cowboy - 2:45   18. It's a Cowboy's Night to Howl - 3:04   Hank Snow: 19. The Hobo's Last Ride - 3:01   20. Wandering On - 2:42   21. Polka Dot Blues - 2:46   Jimmie Rodgers: 22. In the Jailhouse Now, No. 2 - 2:55   23. Peach Pickin' Time in Georgia - 2:51   24. Jimmie Rodgers Medley, Pt. 1 - 3:12   25. Jimmie Rodgers Medley, Pt. 2 - 3:36

Reviews:

1. AllMusic – Steve Leggett
Jimmie Rodgers was more than just country music's first big star, he was also one of the first performers in the early stages of the recording industry to truly understand the benefits of having a distinct public persona. He became known as "the Singing Brakeman" after his discovery at the famed Bristol Sessions in 1927, and he astutely altered that image in 1930 by moving to Texas and donning a cowboy outfit. His records sold astoundingly well for the time, which meant he was much imitated, and this four-disc, 100-track set attempts to chart the phenomenon. Included are sides by W. Lee O'Daniel, who would eventually become the Governor of Texas, and a whole disc of Gene Autry, who began his singing career as a Rodgers mimic, covering close to 30 of Rodgers' songs between 1929 and 1931, before turning to the blues and then morphing into a cowboy singer. The third disc is split between sides by Bill Cox, who was known as "the Dixie Songbird," and the intriguing, somewhat mysterious Goebel Reeves, who recorded as the Texas Drifter (he also tracked as George Riley, Louis Acker, and the Yodeling Wrangler, among other handles) and seems to have been every bit the hobo he claimed to be. Also included here are early- to mid-'30s recordings by future honky tonkers Ernest Tubb and Hank Snow, both of whom began their careers as Rodgers imitators. It will all probably be too much yodeling for the casual listener, but dedicated Rodgers fans, archivists, and historians of the era will delight in this in-depth exploration of the Jimmie Rodgers milieu.

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