On this day (September 8) in 1897, James Charles Rodgers was born in Meridian, Mississippi. He spent his teens and early twenties working on the railroad. He took inspiration from Black blues ...
Williams wasn’t the first big act in the country music world. Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music, found success in the years after the 1927 Bristol Sessions. Later, Roy Acuff became one of ...
To get a sense of how wide the country music landscape — and the divides within it — are in 2025, consider the varied reactions to an announcement the Recording Academy made in June: The best country ...
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