Almost 65 years after the inaugural class of Fred Rose, Hank Williams, and Jimmie Rodgers, the Country Music Association has tapped three new artists to honor at this year's upcoming induction ...

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.

pioneering music producer and publisher Ralph Peer, whose recording sessions in Bristol discovered Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family – and whose promotion of “race” and “hillbilly ...