Country music was starting from twenty century; it became main voice of lower and middle class people in America that was affected by the original culture . Jimmy Rodgers (1879-1933) was regarded as the father of the country music, who was a singer, composer and guitarist. When he was youth, after won a singing competition, he started traveling shows even his father was brought him home more than once . Then he eventually worked on a railroad like his father before he got tuberculosis, which made him giving up this work3. He was enthusiastic about country music; such as even he was suffering from the diseases during the last month, he still insisted on recording song, in total, 110 songs was released by him. He eventually died in19334.
Jimmy Rodgers was a legend that has preponderant influence on the history of country music. Based on his experience of travelling show, he mixed a certainly number of different music style together, especially between rural and city folks5. Moreover, blues and yodels were also be incorporated will his music style. Additionally, his experience made him sang with his true emotion, it makes him become a sentimental balladeer to others6. …show more content…
Jimmy Rodgers has a certainly number of blue yodels, which, basically consist of ‘12-bar blues pattern’, ‘three 4-bar phrases following a tonic-subdominant-dominant’ and ‘AAB line structure’, and the usual line structure was that the third line followed by the first line, which was repeated8. His lyrics reach a large number of people’s heart that actually situated in lower or middle class of society. Thus, the blue yodels became the most popular type of songs throughout Jimmy Rodgers’ life, and this was the reason why a large number of musicians from history to now are interested in his song and rework on