My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers
Rodgers, Carrie / Porterfield, Nolan
My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers was the first book-length biography ever published about a country musician, and fittingly so. No single performer left as profound an impression on early country music. Songs that Rodgers popularized--"T for Texas, " "Daddy and Home, " "In the Jailhouse Now, " "Miss the Mississippi"--are still a regular part of country performers' repertoires. Despite a recording career that lasted only six years (1927-1933) and end...