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Recordings 1927-1933

Jimmie Rodgers - Recordings 1927-1933 Audio CD

A fair review of the Jimmie Rodgers "Recordings 1927-1933" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Jimmie Rodgers reviews here, or go back to the Jimmie Rodgers tabs.

Band: Jimmie Rodgers
Title: Recordings 1927-1933
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Release Date: 2002-10-15
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: The Soldier's Sweetheart 2: Sleep, Baby Sleep 3: Ben Dewberry's Final Run 4: Mother Was A Lady 5: Blue Yodel 6: Away Out On The Mountain 7: Dear Old Sunny South By The Sea 8: Treasures Untold 9: The Brakeman's Blues 10: The Sailor's Plea 11: In The Jailhouse Now 12: Blue Yodel #2 13: Memphis Yodel 14: Blue Yodel #3 15: My Old Pal 16: My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans 17: You And My Old Guitar 18: Daddy And Home 19: My Little Lady 20: Lullaby Yodel 21: Never No Mo' Blues 22: My Carolina Sunshine Girl 23: Blue Yodel #4 24: Waiting For A Train 25: I'm Lonely And Blue 26: Desert Blues 27: Any Old Time 28: Blue Yodel #5 29: High Powered Mama 30: I'm Sorry We Met 31: Everybody Does It In Hawaii 32: Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues 33: Train Whistle Blues 34: Jimmie's Texas Blues 35: Frankie And Johnnie 36: Whisper Your Mother's Name 37: The Land Of My Boyhood Dreams 38: Blue Yodel #6 39: Yodeling Cowboy 40: My Rough And Rowdy Ways 41: I've Ranged, I've Roamed, I've Traveled 42: Hobo Bill's Last Ride 43: Mississippi River Blues 44: Nobody Knows But Me 45: Anniversary Blue Yodel 46: She Was Happy Till She Met You 47: Blue Yodel #11 48: A Drunkard's Child 49: That's Why I'm Blue 50: Why Did You Give Me Your Love? 51: My Blue Eyed Jane 52: Why Should I Be Lonely 53: Moonlight And Skies 54: Pistol Packin' Papa 55: Take Me Back Again 56: Those Gambler's Blues 57: I'm Lonesome Too 58: The One Rose 59: For The Sake Of Days Gone By 60: Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues 61: The Myster Of Number Five 62: Blue Yodel #8 63: In The Jailhouse Now #2 64: Blue Yodel #9 65: TB Blues 66: Travelin' Blues 67: Jimmie The Kid 68: Why There's A Tear In My Eye 69: The Wonderful City 70: Let Me Be Your Sidetrack 71: Jimmie Rodgers Visits The Carter Family 72: The Carter Family And Jimmie Rodgers In Texas 73: When The Cactus Is In Bloom 74: Gambling Polka Dot Blues 75: Looking For A New Mama 76: What Is It? 77: My Good Gal's Gone Blues 78: Southern Cannon ball 79: Roll Along Kentucky Moon 80: Hobo's Meditation 81: Ninety Nine Year Blues 82: Mississippi Moon 83: Down The Old Road To Home 84: Blue Yodel #10 85: Home Call 86: Mother, The Queen Of My Heart 87: Rock All Our Babies To Sleep 88: Whippin' That Old TB 89: No Hard Times 90: Long Tall Mama Blues 91: Peach Pickin' Time In Georgia 92: Gambling Bar Room Blues 93: I've Only Loved Three Women 94: In The Hills Of Tennessee 95: Prairie Lullaby 96: Miss The Mississippi And You 97: Sweet Mama Hurry Home 98: Blue Yodel #12 99: Dreaming With Tears In My Eyes 100: The Cowhand's Last Ride 101: I'm Free (From The Chain Gang Now) 102: Yodeling My Way Back Home 103: Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel 104: The Yodeling Ranger 105: Old Pal Of My Heart 106: Old Love Letters 107: Mississippi Delta Blues 108: Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line 109: Years Ago

I Cannot Recommend This Highly Enough
I won't go into the quality and importance of the music as you are probably already aware of that if you are viewing this item but I will say that the sound quality is amazing (JSP does an excellent job on all their releases), the liner notes are just okay but all the names, dates and locations of the recording sessions are included. This set would be an essential purchase at any price but this JSP five CD boxed set is an unbelievable bargain. I highly recommend this set to all who are interested. It is truly a wonderful collection.

Nearly complete and a great price, but has inferior sound compared to other collections
Each of these sets is flawed in its own way. I know three Jimmie Rodgers collections well, this one, the Bear box set THE SINGING BRAKEMAN, and the single disc THE ESSENTIAL JIMMIE RODGERS. RECORDINGS 1927-1933 is on the surface of things a great bargain, in that you get very nearly all of Rodgers's recordings in a single inexpensive set. Unfortunately, the sound quality isn't nearly as good as the other two compilations. THE SINGING BRAKEMAN is hands down the finest collection, with all of this extant recordings, a very nice booklet, and great sound, but it is prohibitively expensive, at the moment that I write this review nearly $190. If money is no object, then by all means get this one. The third collection that I know well is THE ESSENTIAL JIMMIE RODGERS. Its problem is not that it isn't good; it is that it is only one disc with 20 cuts. There are far, far more "essential" recordings than twenty.

What is not at issue is the quality of the music. There is surprisingly little dross in Jimmie Rodgers's recordings. I find that every disc stands up marvelously to relistenings. Even Rodgers's very first cuts were decent. The majority are excellent, and more than a handful were superb. And there is a remarkable diversity. Although a large number of the cuts are solo performances with Rodgers playing only guitar, a large number feature a wide variety of accompaniments. The most famous is, of course, "Standing on the Corner," recorded in Hollywood with Louis Armstrong playing the trumpet as only he could. Many of the other cuts feature weak or average players, but there are the occasional cuts with exceptionally fine players. But in everyone Rodgers dominates.

While there are very few weak musical cuts, this collection does happily leave off the intensely horrifying "The Pullman Porters," a skit that is included on the Bear THE SINGING BRAKEMAN box set, in which two white men, one of them unfortunately Jimmie Rodgers, parody black Pullman Porters. Even when factoring in that it was humor that was typical of the age, it hardly excuses Rodgers for engaging in painfully racist humor. And "racist" is absolutely the correct word. Most accusations of racism these days involve incidents that can usually be debated. But this comedic skit is vastly more offensive than Michael Richards's celebrated tirade. It isn't just Rodgers mimicking African-Americans or the loose use of the N-word, but the way that the porters, especially the porter that Rodgers is talking to, are presented as complete and abject idiots. The skit is also extremely embarrassing to whites. It pains me that whites might have found this funny. This skit reflects very, very badly on the whites of the period.

Speaking of whites of the period, one thing that I often thing about in listening to Rodgers is my grandfather. After being mustered out of the Army in 1918 at the end of the Great War, my grandfather (who was a photographer for the army) began working for the U. S. Post Office. Specifically, he worked on mail trains. As far as I can tell, he mainly worked runs into Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana from 1919 through the late 1920s. Rodgers finished working on the railroads around 1923 or 1924. There is absolutely no way of telling for sure, but it doesn't seem unlikely that Rodgers and my grandfather might have been on a run together at some point. They certainly inhabited the same worlds. What is more, my grandfather was a fiddle player. It would have been so sweet if my grandfather and Rodgers had had a talk about music. I don't know if they ever met or were even on the same trains, but it certainly isn't impossible.

Of the three Jimmie Rodgers's collections with which I am familiar, I am not sure which I would most recommend. RECORDINGS 1927-33 is nearly as complete as THE SINGING BRAKEMAN and can be had for a sixth of the cost, but it definitely is not of the same quality. On the other hand, THE SINGING BRAKEMAN is so absurdly expensive! There is a significant difference in sound quality, but even more of a difference in price. THE ESSENTIAL JIMMIE RODGERS has exceptionally fine sound quality, but it leaves off way, way too many of Rodgers's most important recordings. It lacks such important gems as "Standing on the Corner" (the collaboration with Louis Armstrong), "Home Call," "Peach Picking Time in Georgia," "Long Tall Mama Blues," and "Jimmie's Mean Mama Blues," along with many others. In short, there is no easy recommendation about which direction to go in getting the right Jimmie Rodgers collection. THE ESSENTIAL is too small, 1927-33 is too inferior, and THE SINGING BRAKEMAN is too expensive. But right now, those are our choices.

A wealth of historical music-Jimmie Rodgers was the Best!
What a collection of classics. This set of the works of the late,great Jimmie Rodgers is about all the serious fan of the 1927 Bristol,VA recording scisson needs. The sound is excellent,crisp and clear. I play this set on my computer at work and yet have had anyone complain about the high lonesome sound(as if it would do any good anyway). This set is a perfect match to the two "Carter Family" box set that I got from Amazon. If you are a fan of real root country musis-and I don't mean this garbage that they are trying to pass off today as country,then you will love this timeless collection of first class songs. As everyone knows Jimmie Rodgers was the idol of Ernest Tubb. Now how can you do any better then that!
"Enjoy" Joe Kopeck - Parkville,MD.

Jimmy Rodgers recordings 1927-1933
He can't stop talking about it. My husband is a big Jimmie Rodgers fan so I bought this for his birthday. There are cuts on these albums that he had never heard before and he thought he had them all. This is the ultimate collection for Jimmie Rodgers fans.

Wonderful surprise
I had always heard his name, seen some pictures of him and knew that he was the "yodeling brakeman," but I had never listened to his music. I wasn't all that familiar with Jimmie Rogers. Growing up in the 50's and 60's I never cared for country music or bluegrass, but found my interest in the growing folk movement and the "old songs. " As I started following the musical thread from the Appalachian Mountains I started bumping into the Carter Family, Charlie Pool, and Jimmie Rogers. These were all musicians in a time change without ridged pigeon holes.

Every cut on this set is easy to listen too. It seems like half of Jimmie's songs are 12 bar blues, then there are the western songs but few are what I think of as country from when I was growing up. This was a time of musical flux so you'll find Jimmie singing with just his guitar, or a Dixieland Jazz band (one cut with Louie Armstrong) or a Hawaiian band complete with ukuleles and Hawaiian guitars. This is a great set of cd's; if it were on LP I would have worn it out by now!
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