Monthly Archives: May 2006

eventy-three years ago on this date, Jimmie Rodgers, the singing brakeman, succumbed to the now almost unkown malady tuberculosis.The first music I heard as a child was my father singing songs like “Waiting for a Train”, followed by covers of “In the Jailhouse Now” and “Blue Yodel” (first of a series of 12, better known as ‘T for Texas’) by various artists. Continue reading →