CALIFORNIA BLUES (BLUE YODEL #4)

Created on 10/12/2005
Latest update on 22/03/2022

Artist: Jimmie Rodgers
Author: Jimmie Rodgers
Label: Victor
Year: 1928

America's Blue Yodeler with an Atlanta back-up band, hastily assembled by Ralph Peer, too small for a big band, too large for a combo. Creates a Bessie Smith & Ma Rainey atmosphere.

Covers:

1940:

Woody Guthrie

1946:

Bill Monroe

1953:

Lefty Frizzell

1969:

Merle Haggard

1971:

Percy Mayfield

1971:

Redwing

1973:

Augie Meyers

1973:

Compton Brothers

1973:

Blue Ridge Rangers [with John Fogerty]

1994:

Don Walser

1999:

Alejandro Escovedo

2013:

Randy Travis

See also: Mule Skinner Blues and Blue Yodel.

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