Meeting Jimmie Rodgers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meeting Jimmie Rodgers write by Barry Mazor. This book was released on 2009-05-15. Meeting Jimmie Rodgers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jimmie Rodgers write by Nolan Porterfield. This book was released on 2007. Jimmie Rodgers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jimmie Rodgers write by Jimmie Rodgers. This book was released on . Jimmie Rodgers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music (Enhanced Edition)
Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music (Enhanced Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music (Enhanced Edition) write by Barry Mazor. This book was released on 2015-04-01. Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music (Enhanced Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous—even revolutionary—A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing the breadth and flavor of popular music around the world. It is the story of the life and fifty-year career, from the age of cylinder recordings to the stereo era, of the man who pioneered the recording, marketing, and publishing of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music. The book tracks Peer’s role in such breakthrough events as the recording of Mamie Smith’s “Crazy Blues” (the record that sparked the blues craze), the first country recording sessions with Fiddlin’ John Carson, his discovery of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family at the famed Bristol sessions, the popularizing of Latin American music during World War II, and the postwar transformation of music on the airwaves that set the stage for the dominance of R&B, country, and rock ‘n’ roll. But this is also the story of a man from humble midwestern beginnings who went on to build the world’s largest independent music publishing firm, fostering the global reach of music that had previously been specialized, localized, and marginalized. Ralph Peer redefined the ways promising songs and performers were identified, encouraged, and promoted, rethought how far regional music might travel, and changed our very notions of what pop music can be. This enhanced e-book includes 49 of the greatest songs Ralph Peer was involved with, from groundbreaking numbers that changed the history of recorded music to revelatory obscurities, all linked to the text so that the reader can hear the music while reading about it.
The Singing Brakeman - a Jimmie Rodgers Discography
The Singing Brakeman - a Jimmie Rodgers Discography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Singing Brakeman - a Jimmie Rodgers Discography write by Christian Scott. This book was released on 2015-05-19. The Singing Brakeman - a Jimmie Rodgers Discography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On August 4, 1927 Jimmie Rodgers had the very first recording session of his career, although he had no accompanying personnel that did not affect the session in the least. The session actually got started about 2:00 and lasted until almost 4:30, two songs were recorded from this session the very first was "The Soldier's Sweetheart" and the second track was "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" both would be issued at a later date. Jimmie would sing and play guitar for both songs and for "Sleep, Baby, Sleep" he would also yodel, this would be his first recorded yodel, this is significant in the fact that Jimmie Rodgers would become one of the best, if not the best yodeler to ever record (in my opinion) and this would show in the vast number of his future recordings. This discography covers Jimmie Rodgers recordings from his very first recording at the Bristol Sessions in 1927 to his very last session two days before his death in New York City in 1933. Included are all his 78 RPM issued tracks on the Victor, Bluebird, Electradisk, Montgomery Ward and Sunrise record labels. In addition to his issued tracks there is a section on all unissued tracks (on 78 RPM) many were issued at a later date on 33 and CD. You will also find a comprehensive listing of 45 RPM singles, extended play and 33 RPM (LP / Albums). An International discography of 78 RPM, 45 RPM and 33 RPM records (although not exhaustive) is included. There is a full performer index, song index, unissued track index, record and record label photographs, song writing index and more...
