WAITING for A TRAIN

Trailer of the Jimmie Rodgers with Buffalo 

Picture by Chris Felver

Three railroad men, one a writer and two past music legend's who's story tells the saga of the history of show business from the late 1880tys to 2016, from medicine shows to vaudeville, records to radio, movies to television to the Internet and beyond.


 

Jimmie Rodgers is the only entertainer that is in the Country, Rock, Blues, Songwriter and Grammy Halls of Fame, and also received the W.C. Handy Blues Award and the Life Time Achievement Grammy and is known as the Father of Country Music.  Merle was greatly influenced by Jimmie and did a tribute album to him as did Lefty Frizzell, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and many more.   Go to JimmieRodgersSaga.com for more on "The Man That Started It All."