Some would mostly be forgotten, but by recording the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers during that time, he had set the future of country music in motion. The Carter Family would come to be known ...

including the country’s longest-running music festival. The Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival and Museum has had a jam-packed 2024, from new educational programs to sell-out shows. This year ...

a boogie-woogie-style cover of "Walking by Myself," a minor hit in 1956 for the unfortunately obscure bluesman Jimmy Rogers (not to be confused with famed "Father of Country Music" Jimmie Rodgers).

The Executive Director of the Jimmie Rodgers Foundation says she is excited about the festival and ready to make it even bigger than last year’s. “You know the great thing abo ...