Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue YodelerPorterfield uses his skills as an English professor and novelist to produce a biography that is as remarkable for its readability as for its wealth of hitherto unknown details...This is a model study of a country music giant and the supporting cast that helped to make him great. |
Contents
Looking for 1927 | 3 |
Call Me James 29 Spring 1917Autumn 1923 | 84 |
All Right George Ill Just Sing One Myself 104 August 1927February 1928 | 143 |
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Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler Nolan Porterfield No preview available - 2007 |
Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America's Blue Yodeler Nolan Porterfield No preview available - 1979 |
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