Jimmie Rodgers
"The Singing Brakeman"
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BOB DYLAN:
The most inspiring type of entertainer for me has always been somebody like Jimmie Rodgers, somebody who could do it alone and was totally original. He was combining elements of blues and hillbilly sounds before anyone else had thought of it. He recorded at the same time as Blind Willie McTell but he wasn't just another white boy singing black. That was his great genius and he was there first... he sang in a plaintive voice and style and he's outlasted them all.New York, 1985
*** NOTE *** "Blue Yodel No. 8 (Muleskinner Blues)" was possibly learned from a recording by Odetta, not from Jimmie Rodgers' original recording.
"Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes" (Waldo Lafayette O'Neal / Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: May 17, 1933, Studio No. 1, East 24th Street, NYC, NY (matrix BS 76139-1; 78 release: Bluebird Bb-7600); re-recorded on May 18, 1933 (matrix BS 76139-2; LP release: RCA LPM 2531).
Both takes reissued on "Last Sessions" (Rounder CD 1063; 1991)
"Any Old Time" (Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Feb 21, 1929, NYC, NY (with house orchestra conducted by Leonard Joy: unknown violin, cornet, clarinet, tuba, piano, trapman) (matrix BVE 48385-1)
Reissued on "The Early Years" (Rounder CD 1057, 1991)
"Waiting For a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Oct 22, 1928, Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA (with Dean Bryan, guitar; C. L. Hutchison, cornet; John Westbrook, steel guitar; James Rikard, clarinet; George MacMillan, string bass) (matrix BVE 47223-4)
Reissued on "The Early Years" (Rounder CD 1057, 1991)
"Somewhere Down Below the Dixon Line" (Jack Ryan / Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: May 24, 1933, Studio No. 1, East 24th Street, NYC, NY (with Tony Colicchio, steel guitar; John Cali, guitar) (matrix BS 76331-1]
Reissued on "Last Sessions" (Rounder CD 1063; 1991)
"Miss the Mississippi and You" (Bill Halley)
Original recording: Aug 29, 1932, Studio No. 1, East 24th Street, NYC, NY (with Hoyt 'Slim' Bryant, guitar; unknown clarinet, two violins, piano) (matrix BS 73326-1)
Reissued on "No Hard Times" (Rounder CD 1062, 1991)
"My Blue-Eyed Jane" (Lulu Belle White / Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Jun 30, 1930, Hollywood Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA (with "Bob Sawyer's Jazz Band": Mickey Bloom, cornet, Boyd Senter, clarinet, Bob Sawyer, piano, unknown banjo, tuba, guitar) (matrix PBVE 54849-2)
Reissued on "Riding High" (Rounder CD 1059, 1991)
"Peach-Pickin' Time Down In Georgia" (Jimmie Rodgers/Clayton McMichen)
Original recording: Aug 15, 1932, Church Studio No. 2, Camden, NJ (with Hoyt "Slim" Bryant, guitar, Clayton McMichen, fiddle; Oddie McWinders, banjo) (matrix BS 58970-2a)
Reissued on "No Hard Times" (Rounder CD 1062, 1991)
"In the Jailhouse Now" (Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Feb 15, 1928, Studio 1, Camden, NJ (with Ellswort T. Cozzens, banjo) (matrix BVE 41740-1)
Reissued on "First Sessions" (Rounder CD 1056, 1991)
"Blue Yodel No. 9" (Standin' On the Corner) (Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Jul 16, 1930, Hollywood Recording Studio, Los Angeles, CA (with Louis Armstrong, cornet, and Lil Armstrong, piano) (matrix PBVE 54867-2)
Reissued on "America's Blue Yodeler" (Rounder CD 1060, 1991)
"Hobo Bill's Last Ride" (Waldo Lafayette O'Neal)
Original recording: Nov 13, 1929, New Orleans, LA (with Billy Burke, guitar) (matrix BVE 56528-1)
Reissued on "On the Way Up" (Rounder CD 1058, 1991)
"Gambling Barroom Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers/Shelly Lee Alley)
Original recording: Aug 16, 1932, Church Studio No. 2, Camden, NJ (with Hoyt "Slim" Bryant, guitar; Clayton McMichen, fiddle; Oddie McWinders, banjo) (matrix BS 58971-3)
Reissued on "No Hard Times" (Rounder CD 1062, 1991)
"Blue Yodel No. 8" (Muleskinner Blues) (Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Jul 11, 1930, Hollywood Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA (matrix PBVE 54863-1); overdubbed version (Victor Studios, Nashville, TN, Mar 18, 1955) with Hank Snow's "Rainbow Ranch Boys" (Tommy Vaden, fiddle; Joe Talbot, steel guitar; Chet Atkins, guitar; Ernie Newton, string bass)
Original undubbed version reissued on "America's Blue Yodeler" (Rounder CD 1060, 1991)
"Why Should I Be Lonely" (Estelle Lovell/Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Jun 30, 1930, Hollywood Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA (with "Lani McIntire's Hawaiians": Lani McIntire, guitar; unknown steel guitar, ukulele, string bass)
Reissued on "Riding High" (Rounder CD 1059, 1991)- Dwight Yoakam - "T For Texas"
"Blue Yodel (No. 1)" (T For Texas) (Jimmie Rodgers)
Original recording: Nov 30, 1927, Camden, NJ (matrix: BVE 40753-2)
Reissued on "First Sessions" (Rounder CD 1056, 1991)
All original tracks also available on the Bear Family' Records Jimmie Rodgers boxed set.