Hobo's Meditation by JIMMIE RODGERS (1932)

[norternredneck]

the father of country music. atleast till the60s this new stuff is rock

[RailfanWatch819]

One of my alltime favorites. If there are freight trains in heaven, Mr. Jimmie Rodgers is sure to be the Brakeman with a guitar instead of a billy club. Ben Dewberry's the engineer with the fireman from "Ol' Number 5" keeping up steam. We will allways be told we can ride & have money to spare.

[ATSF1927]

I was 6 years old when Jimmie passed away, My mother loved his music she played his records a lot. I miss Jimmie and a few others that were around the sametime he was.

[2bakidagain]

He is the father of country music and rightly so! I think he died of TB very young...only 29, i believe!

[Ablatitious]

@2bakidagain He died in 1933 when he was 35, just two days after he recorded his last song.

[hobospirit]

I love it. My grandfather was a railroad man so my father as a very young boy got to see and hear Jimmie at the roundhouse in Asheville, NC before he was discovered.

[LaLaKait]

just heard of jimmy rogers today i feel as though i have been changed and can never go back.

[mange1234]

I love you Jimmy

[IGOROZKARSKY]

LONG LIVE GOOD OLE JIMMIE RODGERS !

[IGOROZKARSKY]

AMERICA´S BLUE YODLER !

[IGOROZKARSKY]

THE LEGENDARY JIMMIE RODGERS !

[holtridge]

My great grandfather had this phonograph in the old farm house.

My great grandmother probably gave it away after he passed on.

[ericwhollem]

This song shows why Jimmie Rodgers was the first POPULAR country singer in

America.

[brown11ish]

I like to have jimmie's videos

[mindgame314]

This is for the kids riding freight. Stay dirty, hungry, and foolish!

[Rayzpik]

THAT is THE Most Beautiful Song I've ever heard done By Anyone..Jimmy was the best!! I sometimes wonder if I'm A Relative of his because my last name was spelled "Rodgers" until my great grand -father(Cherokee Indian) Dropped the "D" from the name so that it would be spelled like the Indians spell it. His Grand Father"Rodgers" ( A White man) had come from England UK

....Ray Rogers

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

Real music.

Jimmie Rodgers sure could sing.

Thank you for uploading this gem.

George Vreeland Hill

[RattlerMan33]

Great old song gave me the chills whoooo!!! Thanks for posting.

[Rayzpik]

Another great one by the one and only Yodeling Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers...rayzpik!!!

[RonnalBeasley]

Thank you Jimmie Rodger for the great music ,Acuff may be the king of country music ,Jimmie is is the father of Country music,,,,, Great Post

[eskizofrenikoi]

mierda esa cancion parece una copia de heidi ke mierda destruje el blues T-T

[TreblePop]

@eskizofrenikoi - y tu mama tambien, puta

[acashfan1]

My favorite song of all time, thank you Jimmie, you sing good for them angels now...

[SkUmDiCtAtOr]

@acashfan1 I CAUGHT TUBURCULOSIS LISTENING TO A JIMMY RODGERS LP

[cardinal333]

@SkUmDiCtAtOr

then LEAVE...

[thawthepast]

This music is the food of ANGELS...GOD BLESS JIMMIE and all

[mcdaniel01]

my family has many recordings of his, as he is kin, and not very distant either!! sang em jimmie!!!! the breakman.

[kurtsquirt]

anyone know the tune with lyrics "police police your just the same" or summinc?

[livemummys]

..at the end of Gambling Bar Room Blues by Jimmie Rodgers

it is actually ..your just as drunk as me...

[kurtsquirt]

yea i found it ta, great tune been a while since i heard it.

[gypsyrose188]

Maybe you're thinking of Hobo's Lullaby by Arlo Guthrie. It's got the lines 'I know the police cause you trouble, they cause trouble everywhere ............'

[kurtsquirt]

thats one of my favourate thanks

[trlstaff]

Aaaaaa the memories. 5/5

[14thetruth]

Great post thank you.

BK

[romanbrough]

Whatever county you are in, there will be some restored steam trains. the sight, the sound the smell the vibration. Takes you bak at least 50 years. Do it this summer.

[cooldog60]

You da man Jimmie

[imkingdad]

an acknowledged Father of Country & a hall of fame / Grand Ole Opry Original inductee.

Also kudos to the other fine posters on their knowledge & acumen.

[hbdavew]

Sounds like Jimmie listened to a little Sol Hoopii too.

[deathdying]

why do they call him the godfather of country?? is it because of the yodeling? that makes it country or something.. because its pretty bluesie to me.

[laslos3]

country has alot of blues influence...atleast original country such as this. It did evolve quiet a bit though.

[whateverfukinever]

"country has alot of blues influence...atleast original country such as this. It did evolve quiet a bit though."

There was no such thing as Country or Blues as a genre of music before the 1940s. Jimmie Rodgers wasn't influenced by the Blues, it's the other way around! He laid the ground work for what would become the genres of Country and Blues in the late 1930s and early 40s. Before that there was no distinction between "country" and "blues". They simply didn't exist as distinct genres.

[whateverfukinever]

PS- If you just go listen to these old proto-country and proto-blues recording from the 1920s and 1930s you will hear that there is really no distinction between the music. The only real distinction at that time was the race of the performer. Country and Blues as distinct and separate genres didn't even come into being until around WW2.

[laslos3]

as I do agree with you mostly, I disagree that the genre's did not exist yet. They may not have been widely heard but the did exist. The appalachin(sic) have been playing americana country since they got here. it just did not have a lable.

[JosephNScott]

"There was no such thing as [...] Blues as a genre of music before the 1940s."

You're decades off. Documented references to "blues" as a type of music began before 1910.

[markybgoode]

True, it has traditional blues elements ie., the I,IV,V progression. Elements of the music that are more traditional"Country" are the alternating bass line and the 3/4 time signature.

[BrunetteLiana76]

It was because he was the first superstar of country music. He was the first to million seller of his records.

Many early stars started their careers immulating him and singing like him before they found their own styles.

[BarryShane1Monstrok]

Lighting Hopkins said one time, "Country is the white man's blues." That I think is east to agree with

[romanbrough]

Interesting idea. Just what will heaven be like? Mine would include walking acros hills, with good companions, the bus always waiting at the stop, and the cafe with huge mugs of tea. But then, is it really for us to choose?

[fullofindifference]

Thank goodness these recordings still exist. Still feels like ol' Jimmie's still with us. He's the original, and he wrote so many great songs that are still with us. Check out In The Jailhouse Now in the Coen Brothers' movie "O Brother Where Art Thou."

[svaleklint123]

what is this kind of video with jimmie rodgers

[Saoff]

love this one, especially the line when he asks if the rich man will have money to spare

[jtls8]

A great legend! Thank you for sharing*****

[slimfnshady4]

one has to drive thru mississippi at night in the humid summer and listen to jimmie rodgers music to get THAT feel !!!!!! soooo relaxing!!

[jt123egypte]

Unbelievable... Fantastic! Jimmie is still a lwgend.More of him please!

[brisansam66]

Yes more please thanks..

[ghostgal30e]

Great. Many thanks for posting G.G.