This is the Definitive Double Album of the Great Star Without Whom Country Music as We Know it Could Not have Existed: Jimmie Rodgers. Jimmie Rodgers’ (1897-1933) Legacy to Country Music is Immeasurable. Generations of Artists from Gene Autry, Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Merle Haggard Down Through Later Devotees Like the Allman Brothers Acknowledge his Incalculable Influences in Both Repertoire and Performancing Style. His Name was the First to Be Placed in the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, 1961, a Tribute that Cemented Rodgers’ Reputation as the Acknowledged ‘father of Country Music’. Known as "the Singing Brakeman" (Having Worked on the Railroad), Jimmie’s Rodgers’ 50 Greatest have Been Collected on this Living Era Double. They Span from the Fruits of his Very First Recording Session in 1927 (The Soldier’s Sweetheart and SLEEP, Baby, SLEEP) to the Final Recording in 1933 (Years Ago), Made Just Two Days Before his Death at the Tragically Early Age of 35.