Singing Brakeman [Import]

Jimmie Rodgers (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2000)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Count
• ASIN: B00004UFZO
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,968 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #98 in Music > Imports > Rock

Track Listings

1. Soldier's Sweetheart

2. T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)

3. Away out on the Mountain

4. In the Jailhouse Now

5. The Brakeman's Blues (Yodeling the Blues Away)

6. Blue Yodel No. 3 (She's Long, She's Tall)

7. Daddy and Home

8. My Little Lady

9. Waiting for a Train

10. Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues)

11. Train Whistle Blues

12. A Drunkard's Child

13. My Blue Eyed Jane

14. For the Sake of Days Gone By

15. The Mystery of Number Five

16. Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)

17. Anniversary Blue Yodel (Blue Yodel No. 7)

18. Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standin' on the Corner)

19. The Wonderful City

20. My Good Gal's Gone Blues

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Rodgers, for a while America's most successful performer, had all those bases -- plus many in between -- covered. On his own "Gambling Bar Room Blues" he could be as gritty as any bluesman (understandable, as it was a bluesman who taught him to play), and

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jimmie Rodgers "The Singing Brakeman" = An Excellent CD From the "Father of Country Music"!!!!!!, March 24, 2009

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Gary Covington "Southern Rocker" (Louisiana, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Singing Brakeman (Audio CD)

This is a great collection of Jimmie Rodgers songs. These are old recordings, so you have to consider that. They are a little "raw & unpolished", but they are very good. I've been to the Jimmie Rodgers' Museum in Meridian, Mississippi (they have an entire park dedicated to him, it even includes a train engine, and 2 cars). Anyway, this is some great early "Southern Country & Rock". Most of the songs contains southern themes. Lynyrd Skynyrd covered Jimmie Rodgers' Blue Yodel (T for Texas - T for Tennessee), and perfected it into about a 10 minute long song. Anyway, this is a great CD, plus it is a historic one. If you like "roots" type music, you should love this one, and in that context, I highly recommend it. Thanks!!!