The album (twenty tracks) is an imaginary autobiography of the legendary James Charles 'Jimmie' Rodgers, also known as 'The Singing Brakeman,' 'The Blue Yodeler,' and 'Father of Country Music.' A somewhat seminal figure in terms of country and country folk. However, Rodgers died in 1933, he was white, and his sound was inevitably influenced by the reality of his times, and Paul Burch's attempt, viewed also through the autobiographical lens mentioned, does nothing but make this work outdated, unbearable, even irritating.
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