Jimmy Rodgers Museum

The Jimmie Rodgers Museum

The Jimmie Rodgers Museum - In early June of 2004, we stopped by and went through the Jimmie Rodgers Museum in Meridian, MS. Unlike several Museums we have toured, they allowed us to take pictures and videos. We also made a trip to Oak Lawn Cemetery, where Jimmie & his wife are buried. Also buried there is Effie McWilliams, Jimmie's sister-in-law, who was a co-writer with Jimmie.
Jimmie is recognized as the Father of Country Music and America's Blue Yodeler.
Jimmie was born in 1897 in Meridian, MS and died in New York City in May, 1933.. Video By Milton Welch

JIMMIE RODGERS and MUSEUM

The father of country music.

New Home For Jimmie Rodgers Museum

A VISIT TO JIMMIE RODGERS MUSEUM-GERDECO 0145

HERE IS ''PROFESSOR'' JERRY COX AND HIS WIFE, JACKIE COX VISITING THE JIMMIE RODGERS MUSEUM. THIS IS IN MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI IN LONG AGO 1988.

Motel 6 Meridian Mississippi - Meridian (Mississippi) - United States

Motel 6 Meridian Mississippi hotel city: Meridian (Mississippi) - Country: United States
Address: 2309 South Frontage Road; zip code: MS 39301

Located off Interstate 59, this Mississippi motel greets guests with fresh morning coffee and offers an outdoor pool. Mississippi State University Meridian is 3 miles away. A cable TV, and a desk are provided in all rooms.
-- 这家位于密西西比州的汽车旅馆位于59号州际公路旁，为客人提供新鲜的早晨咖啡，设有室外游泳池，距离密西西比州立大学默里迪恩校区3英里（4.8公里）。 所有客房都提供有线电视和书桌。Mississippi Motel 6 Meridian汽车旅馆还包括连接浴室。 为方便客人，旅馆也提供自动洗衣设施。Motel 6 Meridian Mississippi汽车旅馆内部还设有免费汽车和卡车停车场。 该汽车旅馆距离吉米罗杰斯博物馆（Jimmie Rodgers Museum）3英里（4.
-- Этот мотель с открытым бассейном находится рядом с межштатной автомагистралью I-59, в 4,8 км от университета Миссисипи «Меридиан». По утрам гости могут выпить чашку свежесваренного кофе.
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Top 9. Best Tourist Attractions in Meridian - Mississippi

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The most beautiful places and sight in Meridian.
Top 9. Best Tourist Attractions in Meridian - Mississippi: MSU Riley Center, Meridian City Hall, Downtown area, Bonita Lakes Park, The Dentzel Carousel, Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Jimmy Rodgers Museum, Mississippi Industrial Heritage Museum, Bonita Lakes Mall

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Meridian is the sixth largest city in the state of Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat of Lauderdale County and the principal city of the Meridian, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area. Along major highways, the city is 93 mi (150 km) east of Jackson, Mississippi; 154 mi (248 km) southwest of Birmingham, Alabama; 202 mi (325 km) northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana; and 231 mi (372 km) southeast of Memphis, Tennessee.
Established in 1860, at the junction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and Southern Railway of Mississippi, Meridian built an economy based on the railways and goods transported on them, and it became a strategic trading center. During the American Civil War, General William Tecumseh Sherman burned much of the city to the ground in the Battle of Meridian (February 1864). Rebuilt after the war, the city entered a Golden Age. It became the largest city in Mississippi between 1890 and 1930, and a leading center for manufacturing in the South, with 44 trains arriving and departing daily. Union Station, built in 1906, is now a multi-modal center, with access to the Meridian Transit System, Greyhound Buses, and Trailways, averaging 242,360 passengers per year. Although the economy slowed with the decline of the railroad industry, the city has diversified, with healthcare, military, and manufacturing employing the most people in 2010. The population within the city limits, according to 2008 census estimates, is 38,232, but a population of 232,900 in a 45-mile (72 km) radius and 526,500 in a 65-mile (105 km) radius, of which 104,600 and 234,200 people respectively are in the labor force, feeds the economy of the city.
The area is served by two military facilities, Naval Air Station Meridian and Key Field, which employ over 4,000 people. NAS Meridian is home to the Regional Counter-Drug Training Academy (RCTA) and the first local Department of Homeland Security in the state. Key Field is named after brothers Fred and Al Key, who set a world endurance flight record in 1935. The field is now home to the 186th Air Refueling Wing of the Air National Guard and a support facility for the 185th Aviation Brigade of the Army National Guard. Rush Foundation Hospital is the largest non-military employer in the region, employing 2,610 people. Among the city's many arts organizations and historic buildings are the Riley Center, the Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian Little Theatre, and the Meridian Symphony Orchestra. Meridian was home to two Carnegie libraries, one for whites and one for African Americans. The Carnegie Branch Library, now demolished, was one of a number of Carnegie libraries built for blacks in the Southern United States during the segregation era.
The city has been selected as the future location of the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center (MAEC). Jimmie Rodgers, the Father of Country Music, was born in Meridian. Highland Park houses a museum which displays memorabilia of his life and career, as well as railroad equipment from the steam-engine era. The park is also home to the Highland Park Dentzel Carousel, a National Historic Landmark. It is the world's only two-row stationary Dentzel menagerie in existence.
Other notable natives include Miss America 1986 Susan Akin; James Chaney, an activist who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in 1964; and Hartley Peavey, founder of Peavey Electronics headquartered in Meridian. The federal courthouse was the site of the 1966–1967 trial of suspects in the murder of Chaney and two other activists. For the first time, an all-white jury convicted a white official of a civil rights killing.



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Jimmie Rodgers Tribute

Here is a song from 1929, mixing blues, Hawaiian music and variety, and typical of the versatility of legendary singer Jimmie Rodgers.
Jimmie Rodgers (1897 -- 1933), known as The Singing Brakeman and America's Blue Yodeler, was the first country music superstar, a status that resulted in another commonly used nickname, The Father of Country Music. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi. Jimmie's affinity for entertaining came at an early age, and the lure of the road was irresistible to him. By age 13, he had twice organized and begun traveling shows. Mr Rodgers found Jimmie his first job working on the railroad, as a waterboy. This is where he learned the cries and moans of the blues and was taught to pick and strum by the rail workers and the hoboes. A few years later, he became brakeman on the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad, a position secured by his brother, a conductor on the line between Meridian and New Orleans. In 1924 at the age of 27, Jimmie contracted tuberculosis. The disease temporarily ended his railroad career, but, at the same time, gave him the chance to get back to his first love, entertainment. He returned to railroad work as a brakeman on the east coast of Florida at Miami, but eventually his illness cost him his job. He relocated to Tucson, Arizona and was employed as a switchman by the Southern Pacific. The job lasted less than a year, and the Rodgers family had settled back in Meridian by early 1927. Rodgers decided to travel to Asheville, North Carolina, later that same year. On April 18, Jimmie performed for the first time on Asheville's first radio station. A few months later Jimmie recruited a group from Tennessee and secured a weekly slot on the station as the Jimmie Rodgers Entertainers. In late July 1927, Rodgers' bandmates got word that a representative of Victor was coming to Bristol to audition area musicians. But, following an argument, the band broke up and Rodgers arrived at the recording session alone. On August 4, 1927, Jimmie Rodgers completed his first session for Victor. In November, Rodgers headed to New York City in an effort to arrange another session. Four songs made it out of this session, including Blue Yodel, better known as T for Texas. In the next two years, this recording sold nearly half a million copies, which was impressive enough to rocket Rodgers into stardom. After this, he sold out shows whenever and wherever he played. On July 16, 1930, he recorded Blue Yodel No. 9 with jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong, whose wife, Lillian, played piano on the recording. Rodgers's next-to-last recordings were made in August 1932 in Camden and it was clear that tuberculosis was getting the better of him. He had given up touring by that time but did have a weekly radio show in San Antonio, Texas, where he had relocated when T for Texas became a hit. In May 1933, Rodgers traveled again to New York City for a group of sessions. Those were the last ones. He died on May 26, 1933. He was 35 years old. When the Country Music Hall of Fame was established in 1961, Rodgers was one of the first three (with Fred Rose and Hank Williams) to be inducted. He was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and, as an early influence, to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. On May 24, 1978, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring Rodgers. Since 1953, Meridian's Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival has been held annually during May to honor the anniversary of Rodgers' death. Rodgers' legacy and influence is not limited to country music. He was influential to a number of blues artists, among them Howlin' Wolf, whose howling was at the beginning an unsuccessful imitation of Rodgers' yodeling. Rodgers' mix of Southern white music and Southern black music was an important precurser to rock n' roll.
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Meridian, Mississippi Roadgeeking [HD]

This video gives y'all another look at the Lauderdale, Mississippi county seat: Meridian.

The Porch Sessions Amy Lott Part Two 'Sing thru the Pain'

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Amy Lott is a native of Meridian, MS where she began taking piano lessons at the age of three. Classically trained on piano and clarinet, she attended the University of Southern Mississippi, and while she was there added flute to her bag of instruments. During that time, she met Steven Wolfe, and local singer/songwriter and they formed Dollar Book Floyd. Amy learned accordion and harmonica during this time and truly became a multi-instrumentalist. Dollar Book Floyd recorded its debut album Red and White,and toured extensively around the south promoting its release. This was an accomplishment for each member of the group, considering Amy suffered from epilepsy. At that time Amy had a seizure a day and carried with her a seizure alert service dog everywhere she went. When it was time to go into the studio again, Amy's health took a turn for the worse, and she was unable to play extensively anymore. After ten years, and many medical advances, Amy is back on her feet and seizure free. In the last two years she has played extensively in her hometown and established herself as a solo artist/singer/songwriter as well as a utility musician for other bands in the area. She re-entered the studio this year with local Mississippi artist Grady Champion, Steve Wilkerson and Britt Gully. She plays across the state keeping the Jimmie Rodgers Legacy of Meridian alive with Britt Gully as they promote a recording recently done in the Jimmie Rodgers museum using the guitar Jimmie Rodgers used during his career. She is currently headed back to the studio to record her originals and release her first solo album. As you listen to her music, the struggles, hope and happiness shines through of a musician who thought playing was a thing of the past, but then received a miracle.

Mississippi Children's Museum Meridian Video

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Hampton Inn Meridian - Meridian Hotels, Mississippi

Hampton Inn Meridian 3 Stars Hotel in Meridian, Mississippi Within US Travel Directory One of our top picks in Meridian.
This Hampton Inn is just off I-20 and I-59, and a 5-minute drive from downtown Meridian.
It serves a hot, buffet-style breakfast every morning and features an outdoor pool.
Free Wi-Fi access and a 32-inch LCD HD TV with HBO are in all rooms at Hampton Inn Meridian.
Rooms are also equipped with a coffee maker and furnished with a work desk.
Guests at the Meridian Hampton Inn can work out in the modern fitness center.
There is also an on-site business center, as well as meeting and banquet facilities.
Bonita Lake Mall is 1.
6 km from Hampton Inn Meridian.
The Jimmie Rodgers Museum is 6.
4 km away, and the Lakeview Golf Course is 16.
1 km from the hotel.

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Jimmie Rodgers's Gravesite

Visit to Jimmie Rodgers' grave in Meridian, Mississippi

Yodeling McDonald Craig Mississippi Delta Blues 1999 Avoca Festival

My friend, McDonald Craig of Linden, Tennessee is a first-rate Jimmie Rodgers Yodeler. He was born in 1932 into a Country/Traditional music household and is the second oldest of seven children. His father Newt Craig was a fiddler who played mountain square dance music and his mother, Conna McDonald Craig was a piano player who played everything from popular to mountain music. While the Craig children played music as a family band, McDonald and his older brother Newt Jr. played the least while growing up. Being the eldest, they worked to help the family meet its financial obligations.

At the age of 20 McDonald left Linden to join the U.S. Army and was assigned to a Gunnery Unit in Korea where he earned a Bronze Star. When he returned from Korea Mac stayed with his parents and continued to work the farm.

He also returned to his music, brushing up on the old standards and particularly the songs of his favorites, Jimmie Rodgers and Ernest Tubb.

Sometime during the mid-1960s McDonald landed a spot on Nashville's Gold Standard Records and had four singles released by them; I Want To Tell You, Buckeye Ohio, You And My Old Guitar, and I'll Never Go To Sleep Alone. He also wrote songs like My Home In Tennessee, and Childhood Memories, the latter of which appeared on his latest CD McDonald Craig Sings Traditional Country Music released sometime in 2001.

In 1978 McDonald went to Meridian, Mississippi for the Annual Jimmie Rodgers Yodeling Championship. He beat out 72 contestants for First Place, making him the first and only African-American Yodeler to ever win that honor. According to his wife, Rosetta Craig, the Musuem curators did not want to award him, but the Judges, whom they had commissioned from California, insisted. The Museum gave in but McDonald was denied the full honors [a photo and plaque placed in the Museum] that were normally bestowed on prior winners. Undaunted, McDonald humbly accepted his win and the notoriety from that further enhanced his appeal as moved on.

His original Cassette Album McDonald Craig Sings My Home In Tennessee & Other Old Time Country Favorites was re-mastered to CD in 2001 by Roughshod Records and released as Yodeling McDonald Craig, the first of their Special Projects Promotional releases. In 2000 he appeared in the 1999 Sonny Rodgers Yodelers Paradise Show Video filmed by Roughshod Records' Mike Johnson at the 1999 Avoca, Iowa Old Time Country Music Festival. This was followed up in 2002 by a Roughshod Records Special Project CD release, Three Country Music Yodelers, Who Just Happen To Be Black, featuring two cuts each by him, Stoney Edwards, and Mike Johnson.

A crowd favorite with traditionalists wherever he played McDonald is as pure Country as you can get, performing from Texas to Tennessee, Iowa, and Nebraska, at numerous State Fairs, Folk-life Festivals, and radio stations. He has been a longstanding member of the National Traditional Country Music Association based in Anita, Iowa and is also an inductee in the Old-Time Country Music Hall of Fame.

In 2005, the State of Tennessee's Century Farms Program certified the 73-year old McDonald Craig's 110-acre farm as an Official Century Farm for having been in the same family for more than 100 years. It was purchased for $400 with a yoke of oxen as a down payment by his ex-slave great-grandparents, Tapp and Amy Craig on Christmas Day in 1871. They paid off the debt in two years. McDonald and wife Rosetta, of 49 years, still reside on the historic property. Though he still picks and sings, McDonald doesn't do much out of state performing anymore.

When it comes to pure Traditional Country Music, McDonald Craig is the real deal.

I shot this video at the 1999 Old Time Country Music Festival in Avoca, Iowa, where I not only met Craig, but also his friend, the late Sonny Rodgers, First Cousin of the legendary Jimmie Rodgers.
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Hampton Inn Meridian, Meridian (Mississippi), USA, HD

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This Hampton Inn is just off I-20 and I-59, and a 5-minute drive from downtown Meridian. It serves a hot, buffet-style breakfast every morning and features an outdoor pool.
Free Wi-Fi access and a 32-inch LCD HD TV with HBO are in all rooms at Hampton Inn Meridian. Rooms are also equipped with a coffee maker and furnished with a work desk.
Guests at the Meridian Hampton Inn can work out in the modern fitness center. There is also an on-site business center, as well as meeting and banquet facilities.
Bonita Lake Mall is 1 miles from Hampton Inn Meridian. The Jimmie Rodgers Museum is 4 miles away, and the Lakeview Golf Course is 10 miles from the hotel.
Check-out is a relaxed 12:00 PM, so you can sleep in and really enjoy that morning cup o' joe.

$50 million art and entertainment museum opens in Mississippi

$50 million art and entertainment museum opens in Mississippi
MERIDIAN, Miss. Another Mississippi city is making a big bet on cultural tourism as Meridian opens the $50 million Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Experience . The institution is funded by state an...

Anna Kate - Wide Rollin' Plains - Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival 2015

Anna Kate's first song at the Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival

Mike Compton Interview

Born in Meridian, Mississippi (hometown to the legendary Jimmie Rodgers) in 1956, Mike grew up hearing old-time country music, and took up the mandolin as a teenager. Drawn to the powerful mix of old-time fiddle stylings, blues influences and pure creativity embodied in Monroe's playing, he moved to Nashville in 1977 and quickly found work with veteran banjoist and former Monroe sideman Hubert Davis. Compton made his first recordings with Davis, but by the middle of the 1980's, he was recruited by Pat Enright and Alan O'Bryant to help found the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and the group quickly became one of the most prominent and admired in bluegrass. In four years of wide-ranging tours that covered the globe, the quintet recorded an equal number of acclaimed albums before a bus accident prompted Mike to reconsider his career and leave the NBB for a year of quiet work and introspection in New York's Catskill Mountains.

Returning to Nashville, Compton soon joined the legendary John Hartford, recording a half-dozen albums with the Hartford String Band and touring extensively until Hartford's death in 2001. At the same time, he began to develop collaborative efforts in recording, performing, and teaching with other masters such as guitarist David Grier, with whom he has toured and recorded the IBMA Album Of The Year-nominated Climbing The Walls; renowned mandolinists David Grisman and Mike Marshall, at whose invitation he participates in the Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, California; producer T-Bone Burnette, for whom he not only performed as a Soggy Bottom Boy on 2001's Grammy Album Of the Year, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but on the following Grammy-winning Down From The Mountain soundtrack and tours, and on the cold Mountain soundtrack and tours; and, most recently, with up-and-coming mandolinist David Long, with whom he recorded Stomp, nominated for the IBMA's Recorded Event Of The Year in 2006. Adding to his full schedule, Mike was invited to rejoin the Nashville Bluegrass Band in 2000, where No Depression magazine noted in a 2004 review that his contributions notably enhance one of the band's greatest strengths: its uniquely precise take on the blues.

Honored in 2002 with a special resolution by the Mississippi State Senate for his accomplishments, Mike Compton is in demand today at every level, from solo tours, treasured performances with the Nashville Bluegrass Band, appearances with Grier, and other duet partners, to instructional settings like the International Bluegrass Music Museum's wildly successful Monroe Mandolin Camp, to studio recordings with bluegrass legends such as Ralph Stanley and country stars like Faith Hill. In the end, there's no better way to say it than in the words of Mandolin Magazine--Mike Compton, is, simply put, a certified mandolin icon.

Wearing his signature pressed blue overalls and rocking and weaving with fluid body motion, Compton stuns not by tricks or artifice, but through his singing, his ability to engage a crowd, and through decades of honing his technique into the unique, one-of-a-kind Compton signature mandolin sound. With his Gilchrist mandolin, this is a perfect match of a musician and his instrument. As a recent April, 2013 reviewer wrote in Bluegrass Today, go see Mike Compton's solo show and prepare to be gobsmacked. There are powerful people in every walk of life. Mike Compton is the General George Patton of the mandolin. Breathtaking is the only word.

This is Mike's Mel Bay Artist Interview with Erica Lee. He also teaches a Mel Bay Pro lick.

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