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Recordings 1927-1933 ReviewThere have been three Jimmie Rodgers - a blues singer, a country singer and a pop/folk singer - the country singer is the subject of this compilation. This Jimmie Rodgers became the first legend of country music.
Jimmie only recorded 111 songs, although altenative versions exist of some of them. Diehard fans who want absolutely everything can find it on the Bear Family boxed set. I love Bear Family's boxed sets - I have quite a few myself - but this box is much better value for money and contains more than enough of Jimmie's music to satisfy most people.
So what's missing? All the alternate versions and just one other song - My time ain't long. I don't know why they left out this particular song, but it's not one that I was familiar with when I bought this collection. Anyway, I would have been content with a double-CD containing 40 or 50 tracks. A single CD could not accomodate all the tracks that I want.
Jimmie's famous songs (all here) include In the jailhouse now, Daddy and home (superbly revived by Tanya Tucker in 1987 or so), Waiting for a train, Any old time, Mule skinner blues (listed as Blue yodel #8 - a cover of this song provided Dolly Parton with her first major solo country hit in 1970), Miss the Mississippi and you (brilliantly covered by Emmylou Harris and Crystal Gayle, among others), Peach picking time in Georgia and others too many to mention. Merle Haggard once recorded a whole album of Jimmie's songs and new covers of his songs are still recorded on a regular basis.
In Jimmie's version of Frankie and Johnny, Frankie kills Johnny after discovering him being unfaithful and is sentenced to death in an electric chair. How different from Johnny Cash's version !!!
I won't ever need another collection of Jimmie's music - this has everything I want and much more besides - and it's all wonderful. I later found the missing song, My time ain't long, when I wasn't even looking for it. I thought With My Little Ukulele in My Hand would be a great collection to have but I didn't buy it for the Jimmie Rodgers tracks, since I'd got everything of his that I wanted. I only realized that the hitherto elusive song was in that box after I took it home and started playing it, which was a real bonus. It's a good song but not essential. So now I have every song that Jimmie ever recorded although there are alternative versions of some of them that I don't have and don't need.Recordings 1927-1933 Overview

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