https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6 Life as the Blue Yodeler en-us 2017-09-13 16:03:21 UTC 2017-09-18 15:12:42 UTC hello@padlet.com david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187242530

]]> 2017-09-13 16:09:05 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187242530 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187243172 Jimmie Rodgers, also referred to as "The Blue Yodeler," "The Singing Brakeman," and "The Father of Country Music" was born September 8, 1897 in Mississippi.]]> 2017-09-13 16:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187243172 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187249254 Rodgers taught himself how to play the guitar and like most southern singers at the time, he learned how to sing in church. At the young age of 13, he won an amateur talent show giving him the confidence to run away from home to try and make a living with a traveling road show. Though, it didn't take long for his father to track him down and drag him back home.]]> 2017-09-13 16:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187249254 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187971423 After a life of struggles, such as moving around and living with different family members, contracting tuberculosis, the disease that killed his mother, and lack of paid gigs, Rodgers in 1927, auditioned for Ralph Peer who was a talent scout for the Victor Talking Machine Company. He recorded two songs for Peer, "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" and "The Soldier's Sweetheart."  They became a hit which introduced Rodgers to a national audience for the first time.]]> 2017-09-15 15:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187971423 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187975568 In November of 1927, he recorded "Blue Yodel (T is for Texas)" which turned him into a national star. Over the next five years the country star recorded country classics and forerunners of rock and roll like "Waiting for a Train" and "Daddy and Home."]]> 2017-09-15 15:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187975568 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187979459 The most popular of Rodgers were a sequel of songs to "Blue Yodel Nos. 2-13" evidently giving him the nickname "The Blue Yodeler." The most popular of the sequel were "Blue Yodel No. 8" and "Blue Yodel No. 9" which were both recorded in 1930 and featuring sounds of Louis Armstrong on the trumpet]]> 2017-09-15 15:16:50 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187979459 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187985034 As the record sales and concert attendees declined due to the Great Depression in 1933, Rodgers packed up and moved to New York. While in New York he was under contract to record a dozen more records. The hits "Mississippi Delta Blues" and "Years Ago" came out of this deal but drained him of the energy he had left due to his tuberculosis being at an all-time worse.]]> 2017-09-15 15:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187985034 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187986823 On May 24, the country star collapsed on the street and died two days later on May 26, 1933, passing away at the age of 35 years old. Rodgers was married to his wife of 13 years and had two daughters. The couple remained married until the day he passed away.]]> 2017-09-15 15:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/187986823 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/188500385 2017-09-18 14:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/188500385 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/188503033 2017-09-18 14:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/188503033 david_viefhaus1 https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/188507871

Rodgers legacy lives on and will continue to live on as the Father of Country Music]]> 2017-09-18 15:07:56 UTC https://padlet.com/david_viefhaus1/kx2aeo9gaod6/wish/188507871