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Caption: Jimmie Rodgers & The Blues Marker
Additional Description: Jimmie Rodgers poses for a publicity shot.
Bluebird and RCA Victor record labels
Rodgers was accompanied on "My Good Gal's Gone Blues" by an Africian American group, the Louisville Jug Band, recorded in Louisville, Kentucky, on June 16, 1931. The record was not released until May 22, 1935, two years after Rodgers death. His records have since been reissued many times in various formats by RCA Victor and associated labels.
  A U.S. postage stamp posthumously honoring Rodgers was issued in 1978. This postcard from 1934 shows how Meridian's bustling Union Station looked the year after Rodgers's death.

If you don't want me mama,
  you sure don't have to stall
If you don't want me mama,
  you sure don't have to stall.
'Cause I can get more women
   than a passenger train can haul
Oh-da-lay-ee-oh, lay-ee-ay, lay-ee
"Blue Yodel" Jimmie Rodgers
Submitted: September 21, 2012, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p220502
File Size: 0.279 Megabytes

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