Jimmie Rodgers Quotes

The songs he chose reflected that same withdrawn, private man, but this man had the gift of expressing his inner soulscape through the medium of some of the 20th century’s finest songwriters, from Rodgers and Hart to Antonio Carlos Jobim to Jimmy Webb, and as always, making those songs his own.

Hank was barely influenced by country music’s first superstar, Jimmie Rodgers, who succumbed to tuberculosis in 1933

More than anything else he had done, Ride This Train made Cash feel as if he had forged a connection with Jimmie Rodgers and the rest of his greatest musical heroes. He felt authentic. It was the most ambitious album country music had ever seen from a star of his stature.