Jimmie Rodgers, brakeman on the Southern Railway at Meridian, Miss., his birthplace, sang in a nasal, caressing voice each morning as he strolled to work. I woke up this morning, the blues all ’round ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The Father of Country Music was actually a rock 'n' roller ahead of his time, argues a folk-rocker who's recorded a tribute album to "Singing Brakeman" Jimmie Rodgers. "Any Old ...

How does one learn to yodel? Yodeling local yokel Bret Bertholf, aka Halden Wofford of the Hi-Beams, says, “First, pretend you’re swallowing a monkey.” The rest, he adds, comes naturally, if you let ...