[78-L] Jimmie Rodgers

[Banjo Bud]

One of the best Rodgers deliberate "sound-alikes" was the venerable Frank 
Luther.  Just listen to his duet with Carson Robison on "You're As Pretty As 
A Picture."

Bud

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From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 10:00 AM
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers

>
> Autry was indeed the best. His guitar playing was actually a lot smoother 
> than that of Rodgers, who often missed beats. Autry was consciously 
> imitating Rodgers. Other labels tried taking advantage of Rodgers' success 
> by asking their artists to sound like Rodgers. After JR's death, Victor 
> tried finding substitutes, including Dwight Butcher, Ernest Tubb, and even 
> Rodgers' cousin, Jesse, who didn't sound anything like him.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:34:45 -0700
>> From: burnhamd at rogers.com
>> To: 78-L at 78online.com
>> Subject: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Thanks, Cary, perhaps I didn't really express myself properly.  Of 
>> course, all of the singers you mention would acknowledge the inspiration 
>> of Jimmie Rodgers, but of those which I know, (which would exclude Cliff 
>> Carlisle and Jimmie Davis), I don't recall ever hearing recordings which 
>> are imitative of JR.  The Gene Autry and Lefty Frizzell recordings I'm 
>> familiar with don't have the JR sound.  But Wilf Carter particularly had 
>> a sound very much like Jimmie Rodgers.  His guitar intros are almost 
>> identical to JR's and his use of yodeling is pretty well the same.  Early 
>> Hank Snow also echos Jimmie Rodgers in the same ways, but later 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 specialist.  I enjoy country music and that's it.  All of 
>> the observations above are solely from my own experience.  I just 
>> listened to "Atlanta Bound" by Gene Autry on You Tube and it certainly 
>> does imitate JR's style and if I'd heard it blind folded, I never would 
>> have been able to identify it as Gene Autry
>>
>> db
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