'Mississippi Delta Blues' JIMMIE RODGERS (1933) Blues Guitar Legend

[giggysevens]

Actually guys, technically, jimmie was born in gieger, Alabama.



[monkeytown1000]

Does it matter what you classify it as? Look at the legacy he left country. As for the blues, nearly all the African-American blues musicians of the '20 & '30s liked Jimmie, most could play some of his songs. But when they were "re-discovered" in the '50s & '60s folk revival the revivalists didn't like them playing Jimmie's songs cos they didn't think it was "authentic". But off-set blues musos like Mississippi John Hurt & Skip James would trade yodels on Jimmie's "Waiting for a Train".

[TheWizardIV]

Jimmie Rodgers was a damn good song writer. this is one of his best tunes in my opinion. the melody just rolls along so smoothly.

@shannonandsheila1, I'm from Texas and trust me there are plenty hills here. why do you think you hear about the Texas Hill Country?

also, just because you dont play the same licks as bb king or stevie ray vaughan or muddy waters doesnt mean its not the blues.

the blues, my fellow youtubers, is a feeling not a way of playing or a genre of music, it is an emotion.

[louieloudisk2]

Happy to be from Meridian, MS (his home town). He really is the father of country music.This was the age of great country music. Today, in my opinion, country music is dead.

[pobsdad]

Wonder if he'd get through to judges houses?

[ledzeppis1]

this is country, believe me, i grew up and still live in the town that Jimmie was from. It may sound like bluegrass or blues to you know, but that is what country was, the White Man's Blues, and lord did Jimmie play them well

[christone21]

I don't understand you. Blues or Country? Who cares. Listen Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues". Many songs has got the word "blues" on the title, and they are a rock, folk, pop, rap or country songs. It's just a title. This is a country music. That's all.

[suedehead3]

I don't care what label you want to put on it....it's just good music

[Roqdar]

I wouldn't worry about the comments to much, most people listen to music not analyze it.

This is early Blues.

Growing up in the Birth Place of American Music (Mississippi) you quickly learn the differences in music.

[fngrpkn06]

I've probably listened to this before, but I've enjoyed it once again.

[boxingin]

This is hillbilly shit not blues....

[shannonandsheila1]

@boxingin aint no hills in texas

[Ablatitious]

@boxingin You are a dumb ass who does not know how to appreciate music. This is in fact blues. Very early blues. Pull your head out of your ass and open your eyes...

[foryourhead]

Everybody shut the fuck up and listen to the song.

[klokheten]

Just wonderful and for ever green.

[baglama7]

For what it's worth, Howlin Wolf stated emphatically that Jimmie Rodgers was a blues singer.

[edisonphonographfan]

Its not bluegrass in the sense the banjo doesn't play rolls like earl scruggs style

it is a very early blues not slide guitar blues or anything but more of a turn of the century ragtime banjo blues / jazzy banjo

but definately not bluegrass

love Jimmie Rodgers! may his music live forever!

[Kaalec]

Yes, when Americans were still smart, not the nation of idiots you've become.

[theglove3k0]

@Kaalec Your ignorance of my country and how much of the the world relies on the USA would be appalling if it were not shared by so many of your countrymen. You think all of the USA is wrong and that the only people with a brain live outside it. Another reason i wouldn't live in your dying country.

[FrankPovah]

It's nothing like bluegrass, that's a tenor banjo and it sounds like Roy Smeck playing it. "Blues" was used in many contexts by many people - it was as misused back then as folk" and "rock and roll" are today.

[ewmcnal86]

This is who my dad named me after... Jimmie Rodgers

[Alithecomedian]

reminds me of rdr

[w5avz]

It is terrible that the lyrics has to be CHANGED for the sake of OBAMANATION....they have Dropped the NAME DARKIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!The World Is Truly UPSIDEDOWN .............

[Kaalec]

@w5avz Wow, I didn't realize there were still people this racist. Congratulations, you must be American. Oo, look you're got three friends. Awww, combined you have the IQ of a turnip.

[TheRemixer05]

@Kaalec Lol, dumbass. You're on a video with music made by an American.

[Jody07984]

@Kaalec You're an ignorant asshole who obviously doesn't know anything about America's history or its music. It's interesting to see you call people racists in the same breath that you condemn an entire country based on one song and a few comments. Actually, I'm not even sure you believe all that you say. My feeling is you're the typical instigator who just gets his jollies by raising the hackles of anybody, over anything. So, you're not an asshole, after all. You're an idiot AND an asshole.

[familytunes1]

how about leon redbone?????

[jimoneill01]

County blues/jazz?

Fantastic music what ever you call it!

[Homerseven7]

LEGEND

[robbourassaguitarist]

Excellent.

[w5avz]

There will never be another Jimmy Rogers! No Mississippi singer has ever been able to have a pronunciation like him!....Certainly no "Darkies" ...not even in the Boss Man "Old Black Joe" Jigging in the White House.........

[TheSatanas666]

@w5avz robert johnson is very superior and besides this guy was a blues student of the old black fellas, listen the lyrics he says "missippi delta blues"...

[gck1953]

@TheSatanas666 This was recorded in '33, whereas Robert Johnson's recordings were in '36 - '37. Do the math, and get off the meth.

[TheSatanas666]

@gck1953 nobody is talkin about who did it first, son house was earlier than this guy, im talkin about the quality and the fact dat he says "missippi delta blues" means dat he learn from the brothers

[bigeeezy]

fantastic

[impala666]

country blues...ragtime. NOT bluegrass.

[hawkeye4771]

while driving home from Texas back in July 1978 i was driving across Lake Ponchatrain about 2 AM underneath a full moon while listening to Jimmie Rodgers on my 8 track tape player. I was 22 yrs old, single, and carefree. I looked up at the full moon and took off my hat and waved it out the window at the moon while listening to Jimmie sing " Mississippi Moon".

[finalending13]

This should be in Fallout

[270Gmoney]

I lived in Meridian Mississippi all my life! The Jimmie Rogers Festival has been going on all week Ive been every day

[Liolar43]

I don't normally listen to country music, but this is pretty good! It's sad to think he died only a few days or so after recording this.

[The44tigger]

@lilmisscarriage Darlin' I just signed into this to comment on your post.. I got tears in my eyes right now remembering the times I'd sit in my grandaddy's lap listening to him singing Jimmie Rogers (and other and other old songs like this) to me when I was little. I just wished he was still around to be able to actually see the videos of him actually singing these songs. And I hope they're all three friends singing together right now.

[DieGwinners]

I love it ...

[BIGBrandonNigga]

my grandpa asked me to find some old "Jimmie Rodgers" for him??Guess I found it.

[mmic429]

Jimmie Rodgers music covered and was also a fusion of blues, jazz, Celtic, hymns, folk, cowboy/western, ragtime, 1800s pop and is to be considered the 1st country and western recording artist, "The Man Who Started It All" and the 1st man inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame

[BilliBullDog]

great song, thanks

[taxford]

blues is the mother of all music!!! country, jazz, rock, and everything that evolved from it!!

[gratefultiger]

Folk music what other kind is there!........Howlin' Wolf

[fngrpkn06]

This is just wonderful tuneage.

[metanoiaparaplui]

Surely the whitest blues I've heard. But still blues.

[Pentagonshark666]

Jimmie Rodgers style is weird,hard to say,but he was the greatest top 10

american singers ever.nevermind the style,some say blues,some say

country,some say bluegrass and the man who posted it say that its

ragtime.

[stanleybadams]

Tommy Duncan on one of the early Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recording sesson. The first one I think, 1935.

[lilmisscarriage]

Just the very best ; i`m a bit prejudice ; he looks alott like my father even to the extended ears ; and dad could sing his songs note for note ; many hours ; when i was ill ; dad would hold me , rock and sing to me ; untill i would go to sleep ; Precious Memories are just that Precious ! Dad 4/1913 till 5/1992 May they both become heavenly Friends and sing together ! May they both R I P !

[MrPlopcrop]

ragtime

[Bardcar]

If Louis Armstrong was singing and playing this song it would be called Jazz.

[jjjunglejim]

He's almost as good as Lady Gaga

[Whiskeyfirst]

@jjjunglejim Yeah, this poor feller never won a mtv award. lol

[WhyteLaydieToneRing]

Yep, this is a real raggy country blues. Bluegrass as its known today didn't really exist until the early 40's. Anyhow, like others have said, it doesn't really matter what you call it. Its some of the best music ever recorded.

[residentevlidead]

It's music it's very good

[breakingthe4thwall]

Whatever it is, it's good.

[Pentagonshark666]

This man was unique.but to me it's bluegrass not blues.

[bakedsushi]

@Pentagonshark666 I have no idea where you get bluegrass? I do think you hear Django Reienheart runs and riffs. Or maybe its the yodeling but its truly blues. Or at least white guys versions. He was like the Stevie Ray Vaughn of 1929 or Pat Boone, whites would not listen to black records back then,,,,,he was the guy who played close enough for them to own the music. This man also taught Muddy Waters how to play accoustic hard without losing the tuning of his strings. (spell check) sorry

[lilmisscarriage]

@Pentagonshark666 ; guess that is why he called himself the Rail Roading Blue Yodeler ? Don`t think he cared for Grass ! Blue or any other color ; it had not happened YET !

[jester044]

@Pentagonshark666

at best...Bill Monroe started the "Bluegrass" sound in the late 30's early 40's. This is really the "riverboat" banjo style...

[ThomasASwilling]

@Pentagonshark666 If you think this is Bluegrass, then you don't know Bluegrass music; and it's obvious that you don't know a lot about Blues, either. Blues isn't just Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, and Muddy Waters. There are several kinds of Blues music, including country blues performed primarily by Caucasian performers. If you want to know the real origin of the word "Blues" that is associated with the music, credit for that belongs to the Cherokee people, who first made that association.

[mink61]

@ThomasASwilling got a bit of ragtime in there as well.

[ineedasmoke100]

@Pentagonshark666 someone should introduce you to bluegrass then,,, this is 30s jazz, Nothing Else!

[justfukoff88]

@ineedasmoke100 Dixieland jazz/ ragtime/ country blues...

[Bakuninite87]

@Pentagonshark666 the tempo is too slow for bluegrass.

[cvwtzhaar]

@Pentagonshark666 Bluegrass did not gain the name bluegrass until the sixties. It is named for Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys.

[capajo02]

@Pentagonshark666 Not to quibble over genres... but I think that this too early to be called bluegrass. I would almost say it has a ragtime-esque sound to it. To complicate matters further, many musicologists call Jimmy Rodgers's style "white country blues." Whatever it is... it is definitely a common source for future blues, bluegrass, rock, and country. I think this music defies genres.

[MrNorthPaw]

@Pentagonshark666 If you want to know what Bluegrass is type in Bill Monroe, Delta blues is more like singing about the blues, Bluegrass is alot abot religion and has a faster pace. Dont get me wrong both are great!

[AgentCarter]

@Notled2 actually if you listen to piedmont blues then you might revise that opinion.

and this is nothing at all like bluegrass.

this is pretty much ragtime.

[GeorgeVreelandHill]

This is real music.

Jimmie Rodgers was good.

In fact, he is the best.

George Vreeland Hill

[SouthBoundAl]

imho Jimmie Rodgers was a true blues singer. he just happened to be white.

[edisonphonographfan]

@Notled2

this isnt rlly bluegrass bluegrass came along in the 40s this is a style of jazz blues

robert johnson charlie patton etc.. are delta blues and the skillet lickers are more of a pre bluegrass band that played wat is considered bluegrass and old time even tho rogers says delta blues in this song its not i agree

[friendlyisle]

a real toe tapper!

[wbrosen]

Moved to Miss from Ny 15 years ago, love it here...I would miss this state just as this song describes...this state becomes a part of you, it's people, culture, music and food..the magnolias smell wonderful when in bloom...I always thought I would miss the smell of lilacs, but the smell of magnolias has taken it's place...

[A01061769]

I´ve never been in muddy waters of Mississipi, but I long to be over there while listening this song

[gearoiddom]

Is this the guy that Alannah Myles sings about in Black Velvet? or is it the other Jimmy Rogers?

[johnnyhoodoo]

I love this tune.I have the 78 on the Regal Zonophone label.

[Steadno]

blues?

[sonnyboywannabe]

@Steadno absolutely blues. "country" was originally just a way to say "made by white people" by the record labels.

[NotTooFar936]

Beautiful.

[MightyAlz]

Glad to see you're placing under the category of a bluesman, rather than a country musician.

He was always a blues wailer above all else...

[TheMahagoni]

@MightyAlz wrong

complietley blues

[hookie48]

great! thanks for posting.