(note: Rodgers really had tuberculosis, and it killed him, at 35)
3 thoughts on “TB Blues”
Bobby C
My grandfather had all of Jimmie Rodgers’ music so, I grew up listening to him. It’s been said that he is the father of country music. But he was a blues man all the way.
I’m sorry I never connected with my grandpa around music. One day a couple of years after he died, I was talking to my dad about my big new musical discovery, Ernie Tubb — “Oh yeah, he was one of your grandpa’s favorites.” Jimmie Rodgers, too.
My grandfather had all of Jimmie Rodgers’ music so, I grew up listening to him. It’s been said that he is the father of country music. But he was a blues man all the way.
I’m sorry I never connected with my grandpa around music. One day a couple of years after he died, I was talking to my dad about my big new musical discovery, Ernie Tubb — “Oh yeah, he was one of your grandpa’s favorites.” Jimmie Rodgers, too.
My wife loves yodeling! How weird is that?