Jimmie Rodgers - Recordings 1927-1933
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Artist: Jimmie RodgersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-10-15
Music Label: Jsp Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- The Soldier's Sweetheart
- Sleep, Baby Sleep
- Ben Dewberry's Final Run
- Mother Was A Lady
- Blue Yodel
- Away Out On The Mountain
- Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea
- Treasures Untold
- The Brakeman's Blues
- The Sailor's Plea
- In The Jailhouse Now
- Blue Yodel #2
- Memphis Yodel
- Blue Yodel #3
- My Old Pal
- My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans
- You And My Old Guitar
- Daddy And Home
- My Little Lady
- Lullaby Yodel
- Never No Mo' Blues
- My Carolina Sunshine Girl
- Blue Yodel #4
- Waiting For A Train
- I'm Lonely And Blue
- Desert Blues
- Any Old Time
- Blue Yodel #5
- High Powered Mama
- I'm Sorry We Met
- Everybody Does It In Hawaii
- Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues
- Train Whistle Blues
- Jimmie's Texas Blues
- Frankie And Johnnie
- Whisper Your Mother's Name
- The Land Of My Boyhood Dreams
- Blue Yodel #6
- Yodeling Cowboy
- My Rough And Rowdy Ways
- I've Ranged, I've Roamed, I've Traveled
- Hobo Bill's Last Ride
- Mississippi River Blues
- Nobody Knows But Me
- Anniversary Blue Yodel
- She Was Happy Till She Met You
- Blue Yodel #11
- A Drunkard's Child
- That's Why I'm Blue
- Why Did You Give Me Your Love?
- My Blue Eyed Jane
- Why Should I Be Lonely
- Moonlight And Skies
- Pistol Packin' Papa
- Take Me Back Again
- Those Gambler's Blues
- I'm Lonesome Too
- The One Rose
- For The Sake Of Days Gone By
- Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues
- The Myster Of Number Five
- Blue Yodel #8
- In The Jailhouse Now #2
- Blue Yodel #9
- TB Blues
- Travelin' Blues
- Jimmie The Kid
- Why There's A Tear In My Eye
- The Wonderful City
- Let Me Be Your Sidetrack
- Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family
- The Carter Family And Jimmie Rodgers In Texas
- When The Cactus Is In Bloom
- Gambling Polka Dot Blues
- Looking For A New Mama
- What Is It?
- My Good Gal's Gone Blues
- Southern Cannon ball
- Roll Along Kentucky Moon
- Hobo's Meditation
- Ninety Nine Year Blues
- Mississippi Moon
- Down The Old Road To Home
- Blue Yodel #10
- Home Call
- Mother, The Queen Of My Heart
- Rock All Our Babies To Sleep
- Whippin' That Old TB
- No Hard Times
- Long Tall Mama Blues
- Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia
- Gambling Bar Room Blues
- I've Only Loved Three Women
- In The Hills Of Tennessee
- Prairie Lullaby
- Miss The Mississippi And You
- Sweet Mama Hurry Home
- Blue Yodel #12
- Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes
- The Cowhand's Last Ride
- I'm Free (From The Chain Gang Now)
- Yodeling My Way Back Home
- Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel
- The Yodeling Ranger
- Old Pal Of My Heart
- Old Love Letters
- Mississippi Delta Blues
- Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line
- Years Ago
Music reviews of Recordings 1927-1933
Music Review: Nearly complete and a great price, but has inferior sound compared to other collections
Rating: 5 Stars
I know three Jimmie Rodgers collections well, this one, the Bear box set THE SINGING BRAKEMAN, and the single disc THE ESSENTIAL JIMMIE RODGERS. Each of these sets is flawed in its own way. RECORDINGS 1927-1933 is on the surface of things a great bargain, in that you get very nearly all of Rodgers's recordings in a single inexpensive set. Unfortunately, the sound quality isn't nearly as good as the other two compilations. THE SINGING BRAKEMAN is hands down the finest collection, with all of this extant recordings, a very nice booklet, and great sound, but it is prohibitively expensive, at the moment that I write this review nearly $190. If money is no object, then by all means get this one. The third collection that I know well is THE ESSENTIAL JIMMIE RODGERS. Its problem is not that it isn't good; it is that it is only one disc with 20 cuts. There are far, far more "essential" recordings than twenty.
What is not at issue is the quality of the music. There is surprisingly little dross in Jimmie Rodgers's recordings. I find that every disc stands up marvelously to relistenings. Even Rodgers's very first cuts were decent. The majority are excellent, and more than a handful were superb. And there is a remarkable diversity. Although a large number of the cuts are solo performances with Rodgers playing only guitar, a large number feature a wide variety of accompaniments. The most famous is, of course, "Standing on the Corner," recorded in Hollywood with Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet as only he could. Many of the other cuts feature weak or average players, but there are the occasional cuts with exceptionally fine players. But in everyone Rodgers dominates.
While there are very few weak musical cuts, this collection does happily leave off the intensely horrifying "The Pullman Porters," a skit that is included on the Bear THE SINGING BRAKEMAN box set, in which two white men, one of them unfortunately Jimmie Rodgers, parody black Pullman Porters. Even when factoring in that it was humor that was typical of the age, it hardly excuses Rodgers for engaging in painfully racist humor. And "racist" is absolutely the correct word. Most accusations of racism these days involve incidents that can usually be debated. But this comedic skit is vastly more offensive than Michael Richards's celebrated tirade. It isn't just Rodgers mimicking African-Americans or the loose use of the N-word, but the way that the porters, especially the porter that Rodgers is talking to, are presented as complete and abject idiots. The skit is also extremely embarrassing to whites. It pains me that whites might have found this funny. This skit reflects very, very badly on the whites of the period.
Speaking of whites of the period, one thing that I often thing about in listening to Rodgers is my grandfather. After being mustered out of the Army in 1918 at the end of the Great War, my grandfather (who was a photographer for the army) began working for the U.S. Post Office. Specifically, he worked on mail trains. As far as I can tell, he mainly worked runs into Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana from 1919 through the late 1920s. Rodgers finished working on the railroads around 1923 or 1924. There is absolutely no way of telling for sure, but it doesn't seem unlikely that Rodgers and my grandfather might have been on a run together at some point. They certainly inhabited the same worlds. What is more, my grandfather was a fiddle player. It would have been so sweet if my grandfather and Rodgers had had a talk about music. I don't know if they ever met or were even on the same trains, but it certainly isn't impossible.
Of the three Jimmie Rodgers's collections with which I am familiar, I am not sure which I would most recommend. RECORDINGS 1927-33 is nearly as complete as THE SINGING BRAKEMAN and can be had for a sixth of the cost, but it definitely is not of the same quality. On the other hand, THE SINGING BRAKEMAN is so absurdly expensive! There is a significant difference in sound quality, but even more of a difference in price. THE ESSENTIAL JIMMIE RODGERS has exceptionally fine sound quality, but it leaves off way, way too many of Rodgers's most important recordings. It lacks such important gems as "Standing on the Corner" (the collaboration with Louis Armstrong), "Home Call," "Peach Picking Time in Georgia," "Long Tall Mama Blues," and "Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues," along with many others. In short, there is no easy recommendation about which direction to go in getting the right Jimmie Rodgers collection. THE ESSENTIAL is too small, 1927-33 is too inferior, and THE SINGING BRAKEMAN is too expensive. But right now, those are our choices.
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