Billboard counts down the best country acts of the past (almost) 100 years. Ever since Ralph Peer held his famous recording ...

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

Jimmie Rodgers was the first superstar of country ... music is right there in “Blue Yodel,” including those simple guitar ...

The man who would one day be dubbed the "Father of Country Music," Jimmie Rodgers ... Americans who schooled Rodgers in the blues and taught him how to play banjo and guitar.

“When I finished the song and walked offstage, I put my guitar in the case and I just broke down crying ... “I learned to ...

Hard Rock International’s Senior Vice President of Design and Construction Joe Emanuele (right) and Vice President of ...

Since relocating to New York from his native South Los Angeles in 2007, the multifaceted blues performer Jerron Paxton has ...

Dylan opened the guitar case, took out a looped-wire harmonica ... music figures—particularly Hank Williams, Hank Snow, and Jimmie Rodgers. During his brief stay at the university, Dylan became ...

It was a guitar-pull-style opener – a nod to a ... came out yodeling on Jimmie Rodgers’ “Waiting for a Rain.” He then dug into Woody Guthrie’s “The 1913 Massacre,” got a bit uptempo ...

Image caption, Jimmie Rodgers (left) and Maybelle ... country music has heavily featured stringed instruments such as the fiddle, guitar, violin, bass and banjo. Harmonica and accordion are ...

The film features a rich soundtrack of American folk tunes of the time, including songs by Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Cotten, Doc Watson, and Jimmie Rodgers ... and Bob "Guitar Whitey" Symmonds ...

An odd-job man for a white farmer, he'd done some recordings in the late 1920s of his mischievous ragtime guitar-playing and ... the town of Meridian, where Jimmie Rodgers was born and worked ...