This is the first video I have ever seen of Jimmy. I have loved him since my boyhood.
I am now 70 years old but I still remember sitting round a peat fire in the Falkland Islands listening to him.
I wish my father could like Jimmie Rodgers,but he have never heard of him. My father is not a country music lover. He love Elvis and The Beatles.
I love listen to Jimmie
Now this is country I can get into. Classic country is fantastic. Everything in the genre these days is so "America ra ra ra!". It's sad because it can be so much better than it is. Maybe it's just me, but that's how I see it at least.
My Dad has been gone since 1991. Jimmy's music always reminds me of him. Dad was a true blue fan of his. He wasn't into frivolous things but he had a collection of old 10in records of Jimmie Rodgers he bought after he returned home from the war in the pacific in the Marine Corps in 1946. Pop truly loved his music.