Jimmie Rodgers – “Gambling Bar Room Blues” from “The Singing Brakeman”

Born James Charles Rodgers on 8 September 1897 in Pine Springs near Meridian, Mississippi.
His first job was working on the railroad for his father’s railroad gang in Meridian. Illness (he’d been diagnosed with tuberculosis aged 27. in those days it was a killer disease) soon put paid to that and he joined travelling shows playing banjo and guitar and singing popular songs along with his own self-penned songs.
In 1927 “Blue Yodel” became a million selling hit and between 1928 and 1933 (the worst years of the American Depression) he sold over 20 million records.
He died on 26 May 1933 aged 35 from a tubercular haemorrhage. He was in a hotel room waiting for a doctor to arrive. It was 2 days after his last ever recording – “Years Ago”.

Disc: 1

1. The Brakeman’s Blues; 2. The Soldier’s Sweetheart; 3. Sleep, Baby, Sleep; 4. Ben Dewberry’s Final Run; 5. Ben Dewberry’s Final Run; 6. The Sailor’s Plea; 7. In The Jailhouse Now; 8. Blue Yodel No. 2 (My Lovin’ Gal, Lucille); 9. Blue Yodel No. 3 (Evening Sun Yodel Or She’s Long, She’s Tall); 10. My Old Pal; 11. My Little Old Home Down In New Orleans; 12. My Little Lady; 13. Never No Mo’ Blues; 14. Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues); 15. Waiting For A Train; 16. Any Old Time; 17. Blue Yodel No. 5; 18. Tuck Away My Lonesome Blues; 19. Train Whistle Blues; 20. Jimmie’s Texas Blues; 21. Frankie And Johnny; 22. Blue Yodel No. 6; 23. Yodelling Cowboy; 24. My Rough And Rowdy Ways; 25. Hobo Bill’s Last Ride

Disc: 2

1. Mississippi River Blues; 2. Blue Yodel No. 7 (Anniversary Blue Yodel); 3. Blue Yodel No . 11; 4. Pistol Packin’ Papa; 5. Those Gambler’s Blues; 6. Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues); 7. Blue Yodel No. 9 (Standing On The Corner); 8. TB Blues; 9. Travellin’ Blues; 10. Jimmie The Kid (Parts Of The Life Of Jimmie Rodgers); 11. The Wonderful City; 12. Let Me Be Your Sidetrack; 13. When The Cactus Is In Bloom (Round Up Time Out West); 14. Looking For A New Mama; 15. My Good Gal’s Gone; 16. Roll Along, Kentucky Moon; 17. Blue Yodel No.10 (Ground Hog Rootin’ In My Back Yard); 18. No Hard Times; 19. Peach Pickin’ Time In Georgia; 20. Gambling Bar Room Blues; 21. Blue Yodel No. 12 (Barefoot Blues); 22. Blue Yodel No. 13 (Women Made A Fool Out Of Me); 23. Mississippi Delta Blues; 24. Somewhere Down Below The Mason Dixon Line; 25. Years Ago (Fifteen Years Ago Today)