MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - 2024 was an incredible year for music in the Queen City, including the country’s longest-running music festival. The Jimmie Rodgers Music Festival and Museum has had a ...

Like many country artists in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Gene Autry started out as an imitator of Jimmie Rodgers. As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did.

Some would mostly be forgotten, but by recording the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers during that time, he had set the future of country music in motion. The Carter Family would come to be known ...