[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers

[Cary Ginell]

Thanks! There's a new 2-CD box set coming out (finally!) on Bob Dunn, the electric steel guitarist with Milton Brown. The set traces Dunn's nomadic recordings in the '30s through the early '50s. Mike Kieffer is finishing the restoration. We have some fabulous liner notes by a variety of writers including Kevin Coffey, Dave Sager (who was in NOLA) and myself, as well as many unpublished photos from the Dunn family archives. Look for it this summer at www.originjazz.com

Cary Ginell

> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 06:28:24 -0400
> From: rockined1 at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers
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>  and you did an excellent job too--all the stuff you do is good
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> what new projects can you share wtih us???
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>  I produced a box 
> et on Bear Family
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> To: 78-L at 78online.com
> Sent: Wed, May 26, 2010 12:34 am
> Subject: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers
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> There are MANY American country singers who were inspired by Rodgers. In fact, 
> OST country singers who came along in the years following Rodgers' death were 
> nfluenced by him. Many started out as Rodgers imitators, including Gene Autry, 
> liff Carlisle, Ernest Tubb, Jimmie Davis, Lefty Frizzell. Others, like Johnny 
> ash, Merle Haggard, and Jerry Lee Lewis idolized him as well. I produced a box 
> et on Bear Family that includes many of these artists and their renditions of 
> odgers songs. Rodgers was probably the most influential country singer until 
> ank Williams came along. 
> Cary Ginell
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> Thanks, Cary, perhaps I didn't really express myself properly.  Of course, all 
> f the singers you mention would acknowledge the inspiration of Jimmie Rodgers, 
> ut of those which I know, (which would exclude Cliff Carlisle and Jimmie 
> avis), I don't recall ever hearing recordings which are imitative of JR.  The 
> ene Autry and Lefty Frizzell recordings I'm familiar with don't have the JR 
> ound.  But Wilf Carter particularly had a sound very much like Jimmie Rodgers.  
> is guitar intros are almost identical to JR's and his use of yodeling is pretty 
> ell the same.  Early Hank Snow also echos Jimmie Rodgers in the same ways, but 
> ater his style changed to a more unique sound, as in "I'm Movin' On".
> But let me repeat - I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a country music 
> pecialist.  I enjoy country music and that's it.  All of the observations above 
> re solely from my own experience.  I just listened to "Atlanta Bound" by Gene 
> utry on You Tube and it certainly does imitate JR's style and if I'd heard it 
> lind folded, I never would have been able to identify it as Gene Autry
> db
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