{"product_id":"meeting-jimmie-rodgers-how-americas-original-roots-music-hero-changed-the-pop-sounds-of-a-century-0199891869","title":"Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0199891869\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Mazor, Barry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Meeting Jimmie Rodgers, the first book to explore the deep legacy of \"The Singing Brakeman\" from a twenty-first century perspective, Barry Mazor offers a lively look at Rodgers' career, tracing his rise from working-class obscurity to the pinnacle of renown that came with such hits as \"Blue Yodel\" and \"In the Jailhouse Now.\" As Mazor shows, Rodgers brought emotional clarity and a unique sense of narrative drama to every song he performed, whether tough or sentimental, comic or sad. His wistful singing, falsetto yodels, bold flat-picking guitar style, and sometimes censorable themes--sex, crime, and other edgy topics--set him apart from most of his contemporaries. But more than anything else, Mazor suggests, it was Rodgers' shape-shifting ability to assume many public personas--working stiff, decked-out cowboy, suave ladies' man--that connected him to such a broad public and set the stage for the stars who followed him. In reconstructing this far-flung legacy, Mazor enables readers to meet Rodgers and his music anew-not as an historical figure, but as a vibrant, immediate force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51675935146272,"sku":"NEW0199891869","price":38.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/810QJVl4p7L.jpg?v=1779227185","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/meeting-jimmie-rodgers-how-americas-original-roots-music-hero-changed-the-pop-sounds-of-a-century-0199891869","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}