In Meeting Jimmie Rodgers,
the first book to explore the deep legacy of "The Singing Brakeman"
from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively
look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity
to the pinnacle of renown that came with such hits as "Blue Yodel" and
"In the Jailhouse Now." As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional
clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he
performed, whether tough or sentimental, comic or sad. His wistful
singing, falsetto yodels, bold flat-picking guitar style, and sometimes
censorable themes--sex, crime, and other edgy topics--set him apart from
most of his contemporaries. But more than anything else, Mazor
suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public
personas--working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man--that
connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who
followed him. In reconstructing this far-flung legacy, Mazor enables
readers to meet Rodgers and his music anew-not as an historical figure,
but as a vibrant, immediate force.
Barry Mazor
(Author)
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