Jimmie Rodgers Archives - Wide Open Country

Press photos of Merle Haggard and country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers

Who Sang 'My Rough and Rowdy Ways' Better: Merle Haggard or Jimmie Rodgers?

Country Music Instruments

10 Legendary Instruments of Country Music

By Jeremy Burchard

How To Yodel: 4 Country & Western Songs to Yodel Along To

By Darby Sparkman

Bristol Tennessee

How Bristol, a Small Town on the Tennessee-Virginia Border, Shaped the Future of Country Music

By Courtney Fox

Sturgill Simpson Shares Merle Haggard Co-Write 'Hobo Cartoon'

By Bobbie Jean Sawyer

From Jimmie Rodgers to Dolly Parton, The Legacy of 'Mule Skinner Blues'

Boxcar Willie

The Backstory Behind America's Favorite Hobo, Boxcar Willie

How 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Made America Fall Back in Love with Bluegrass

By Jeremy Burchard

Johnny Cash Louis Armstrong

Johnny Cash + Louis Armstrong Cover Jimmie Rodgers' 'Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)'

Hank Thompson

Remembering Hank Thompson's Incredible Seven-Decade Career

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