Induction Year: 1970
Birth Name: James Charles Rodgers
Birth Date: 09-08-1897
Place of Birth: Meridian, Mississippi
Death Date: 05-26-1933
Place of Death: New York, New York
"Anniversary Blue Yodel (Blue Yodel No. 7)"
(written with Elsie McWilliams)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1930 |
Gene Autry | 1930 |
Frankie Marvin | 1930 |
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | 1941 |
Hank Snow | 1953 |
Doc Watson | 1994 |
Merle Haggard | 2002 |
"Any Old Time"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1930 |
Gene Autry | 1931 |
Merle Travis | 1946 |
Ernest Tubb | 1951 |
Webb Pierce | 1956 | #7 country |
George Jones | 1956 |
Maria Muldaur | 1973 |
Fats Domino | 1978 |
Tony Rice | 1983 |
Alison Krauss | 1997 |
Steve Forbert | 2002 |
"Blue Yodel (T for Texas)"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Riley Puckett | 1928 |
Frankie Marvin | 1928 |
Moonshine Kate | 1930 |
Cliff Carlisle | 1930 |
Texas Ruby | 1937 |
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys | 1937 |
Merle Travis | 1948 |
Grandpa Jones | 1962 | #5 country |
Everly Brothers | 1968 |
Tompall & His Outlaw Band | 1976 | #36 country |
Lynyrd Skynyrd | 1976 |
Dwight Yoakam | 1997 |
Johnny Cash | 2003 |
"Blue Yodel No. 2 (My Lovin' Gal, Lucille)"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Frankie Marvin | 1928 |
Whitey McPherson | 1937 |
Lefty Frizzell | 1951 |
"Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues)"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1929 |
Gene Autry | 1929 |
Carson Robison | 1929 |
Frankie Marvin | 1929 |
Bill Monroe | 1947 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
John Fogerty | 1973 |
The Seldom Scene | 1978 |
Merle & Doc Watson | 1981 |
"Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)"
(written with George Vaughn)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1931 |
Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys | 1940 |
Roy Acuff | 1940 |
Woody Guthrie | 1945 |
The Maddox Brothers & Rose | 1948 |
Odetta | 1956 |
Ramblin' Jack Elliott | 1958 |
The Fendermen | 1960 | #5 pop, #16 country |
Harry Belafonte | 1962 |
The Osborne Brothers | 1962 |
Jose Feliciano | 1964 |
Hank Williams Jr. | 1965 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
Dolly Parton | 1970 | #3 country |
Jerry Reed | 1971 |
The Country Gentlemen | 1973 |
Lester Flatt | 1974 |
Grandpa Jones | 1979 |
Tony Rice | 1984 |
The Cramps | 1990 |
Bob Dylan | 1994 |
Sweethearts of the Rodeo | 1996 |
Van Morrison | 1997 |
Rhonda Vincent & the Rage | 2005 |
Gretchen Wilson | 2006 |
"Daddy and Home"
(written with Elsie McWilliams)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Gene Autry | 1929 |
Bill Cox | 1929 |
Arkie the Arkansas Woodchopper | 1931 |
Red River Dave | 1940 |
Tanya Tucker | 1989 | #27 country |
Robin & Linda Williams | 2007 |
"Everybody Does It in Hawaii"
(written with Elsie McWilliams)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1929 |
Carson Robison | 1930 |
Frankie Marvin | 1930 |
Bob Wills | 1938 |
Chet Atkins & Hank Snow | 1969 |
Hank Snow | 1970 |
Steve Forbert | 1997 |
"In the Jailhouse Now"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Frankie Marvin | 1928 |
Arkie the Arkansas Woodchopper | 1929 |
Webb Pierce | 1955 | #1 country |
Johnny Cash | 1962 | #8 country |
Leon Russell | 1973 |
Sonny James | 1977 | #15 country |
Willie Nelson & Webb Pierce | 1982 | #72 country |
Steve Earle & the V-Roys | 1997 |
The Soggy Bottom Boys | 2001 | soundtrack: O Brother Where Art Thou |
"Mother, the Queen of My Heart"
(written with Slim Bryant)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1932 |
Dwight Butcher | 1933 |
Doc Hopkins | 1936 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
Jerry Lee Lewis | 1971 |
"My Old Pal"
(written with Elsie McWilliams)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Bill Cox | 1929 |
Red River Dave | 1940 |
Lefty Frizzell | 1951 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
"My Rough and Rowdy Ways"
(written with Elsie McWilliams)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1930 |
Gene Autry | 1930 |
Bill Cox | 1930 |
Lefty Frizzell | 1951 |
Webb Pierce | 1961 |
Merle Haggard | 1967 |
Doc Watson | 1967 |
Hank Thompson | 1969 |
Hank Snow | 1970 |
Steve Forbert | 2002 |
"Peach Pickin' Time Down in Georgia"
(written with Clayton McMichen)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1933 |
Dwight Butcher | 1933 |
W. Lee O'Daniel | 1935 |
Elton Britt | 1968 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
Willie Nelson | 1997 |
Merle Haggard | 2002 |
"Prairie Lullaby"
(written with Billy Hill)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1933 |
Dwight Butcher | 1933 |
Light Crust Doughboys | 1935 |
Geoff & Maria Muldaur | 1967 |
Leon Redbone | 1990 |
"T.B. Blues"
(written with Raymond Hall)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1931 |
Gene Autry | 1931 |
Pete Seeger | 1962 |
Leon Redbone | 1978 |
"The Brakeman's Blues"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Frankie Marvin | 1928 |
Cliff Carlisle | 1930 |
Lefty Frizzell | 1951 |
Chris Thile | 2006 |
"The Soldier's Sweetheart"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1927 |
Frankie Marvin | 1928 |
"Travellin' Blues"
(written with Shelley Lee Alley)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1931 |
Gene Autry | 1931 |
Bill Cox | 1931 |
Lefty Frizzell | 1951 |
Ernest Tubb | 1956 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
"Treasures Untold"
(written with Ellsworth T. Cozzens)
Jimmie Rodgers | 1928 |
Frankie Marvin | 1928 |
Vernon Dalhart | 1928 |
Asa Martin | 1933 |
Lefty Frizzell | 1951 |
Hank Snow | 1953 |
Doc Watson | 1972 |
"Waiting for a Train"
Jimmie Rodgers | 1929 |
Riley Puckett | 1929 |
Carson Robison | 1929 |
Gene Autry | 1930 |
Wilf Carter | 1943 |
Jim Reeves | 1957 |
Johnny Cash | 1963 |
Hank Snow | 1963 |
Billy Walker | 1968 |
Furry Lewis | 1969 |
Merle Haggard | 1969 |
Boz Scaggs | 1969 |
Jerry Lee Lewis | 1970 | #11 country |
Stonewall Jackson | 1971 |
Dickey Lee | 1972 |
Sonny James | 1976 |
Dr. John | 1983 |
Dickey Betts | 1997 |
Jorma Kaukonen | 2002 |
Steve Forbert | 2002 |