[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum

[Cary Ginell]

There are MANY American country singers who were inspired by Rodgers. In fact, MOST country singers who came along in the years following Rodgers' death were influenced by him. Many started out as Rodgers imitators, including Gene Autry, Cliff Carlisle, Ernest Tubb, Jimmie Davis, Lefty Frizzell. Others, like Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, and Jerry Lee Lewis idolized him as well. I produced a box set on Bear Family that includes many of these artists and their renditions of Rodgers songs. Rodgers was probably the most influential country singer until Hank Williams came along. 

Cary Ginell


>  Jimmie Rodgers inspired the careers of at least two Canadian country singers, (Hank Snow and Wilf Carter), although I don't know of any other American singers so inspired.  
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