Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Tuesday October 18, 2022: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers

Stranger Songs with Mike Regenstreif finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The show is broadcast on CKCU in Ottawa on Tuesdays from 3:30 until 5 pm (Eastern time) and is also available 24/7 for on-demand streaming.

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Theme: Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (1897-1933). Rodgers, who died of tuberculosis in 1933 at age 35, was known as The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler and is widely regarded to be the father of country music.

Jimmie Rodgers- Ben Dewberry’s Final Run

First Sessions, 1927-28 (Rounder)

Merle Haggard- Train Whistle Blues

Same Train, A Different Time: Merle Haggard Sings the Great Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (Capitol)

Swing & Tears- Hobo’s Meditation

Swing & Tears (Swing & Tears)

John Sebastian- Waiting for a Train

Cheapo-Cheapo Productions Presents Real Live John Sebastian (Reprise)

Iris DeMent- Hobo Bill’s Last Ride

The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute (Egyptian/Columbia)

Jimmie Rodgers- My Rough and Rowdy Ways

On the Way Up, 1929 (Rounder)

Ian & Sylvia- Travelin’ Blues (listed as Jimmie’s Texas Blues)

The Lost Tapes (Stony Plain)

Jane Voss & Hoyle Osborne- Drunken Bar Room Blues (Gambling Bar Room Blues)

Never No More Blues (Ripple)

Jimmie Rodgers- T.B. Blues

America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931 (Rounder)

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott- Whippin’ That Old T.B.

Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy Songs (Monitor)

Maria Muldaur- Any Old Time

Maria Muldaur (Reprise)

Peter Keane- Nobody Knows but Me

Rural Electrification (Little Hat)

Diana Braithwaite & Chris Whiteley- He’s in the Jailhouse Now

Gold Cadillac (G-Three)

Jimmie Rodgers with Louis Armstrong- Blue Yodel No. 9

America’s Blue Yodeler, 1930-1931 (Rounder)

Odetta- Muleskinner Blues

Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues (Tradition)

Finest Kind- Why Should I Be Lonely?

For Honour & For Gain (Fallen Angle)

J.W. McClure- My Carolina Sunshine Girl

Interpretations of Jimmie Rodgers (J.W. McClure)

Doc Watson- My Blue Eyed Jane

Portrait (Sugar Hill)

Jimmie Rodgers- Gambling Polka Dot Blues

Down the Old Road, 1931-1932 (Rounder)

Leon Redbone- Roll Along Kentucky Moon

Sugar (Rounder)

Dakota Dave Hull & Sean Blackburn- Miss the Mississippi and You

North By Southwest (Arabica)

Robin & Linda Williams- Mississippi Delta Blues

Visions of Love (Sugar Hill)

Arlo Guthrie- When the Cactus is in Bloom

Son of the Wind (Rising Son)

Mary Chapin Carpenter- Somewhere Down Below the Mason Dixon Line

The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute (Egyptian/Columbia)

Jimmie Rodgers- Yodeling My Way Back Home

Last Sessions, 1933 (Rounder)

Next week: Songs of Yip Harburg and Hoagy Carmichael.

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--Mike Regenstreif