My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers by his wife Carrie Rodgers was the first book-length biography ever published about a country musician, and fittingly so.
No single performer left as profound an impression on early country music. Songs that Rodgers popularized, such as 'T for Texas', 'Daddy and Home', 'In the Jailhouse Now' and 'Miss the Mississippi' are still a regular part of country performers' repertoires. Despite a recording career that lasted only six years (1927-1933) and ended with Rodgers's untimely death from tuberculosis, in many ways Jimmie Rodgers is still very much with us.
Carrie Rodgers was married to Jimmie Rodgers from 1920 until his death in 1933. Nolan Porterfield (1936-2020) was a professor of English and writer-in-residence at Southeast Missouri State University.
University of Illinois Press, 264pp, 15cm x 22cm, illustrated paperback, 2023