Country music's first megastar had roots in Mississippi, but the Lone Star State played a big role later in life.

Fourth Grade students at Poplar Springs Elementary got the experience to learn all about Jimmie Rodgers. Jimmie Rodgers is ...

But he has deep ties to Western North Carolina. “I learned to play from [my great-grandfather] who played and sang like ...

Some would mostly be forgotten, but by recording the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers during that time, he had set the future of country music in motion. The Carter Family would come to be known ...

Impressively, singer, songwriter and guitarist Jimmie Rodgers was in the inaugural class in both Halls. He was one of the first three people inaugurated into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961 ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.

The Jimmie Rodgers Foundation has begun putting plans together and raising funds for the 72nd annual Jimmie Rodgers Festival.

And believe it or not – no Jimmie Rodgers, no Taylor Swift. Back in 1928, Jimmie was among the first to put country music to vinyl and he went on to become one of its biggest stars. His impact ...

A Country Music Hall of Fame member is coming to Warren County this month. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlative will ...

There's a local museum for Jimmie Rodgers, too, and we went there to get shots of his photographs, flyers and cowboy boots - he's known as the Father of Country Music, though he of course recorded ...

About 10 years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery, Ala., about an hour’s drive from Butler ...

By Paul Grein When guitarist James Burton officially becomes a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame at their Medallion Ceremony on Sunday (Oct. 20), he’ll become the 17th individual to be inducted ...