The first terms the music business found for this music were phrases like “Old Time Tunes”, “Old Familiar Tunes” or “Songs From ... 1927, Jimmie Rodgers went to church.

As an artist, Gene Autry obviously idolized Jimmie Rodgers, as so many did ... He donned cowboy clothes and sang cowboy songs (“The Last Roundup” and “Home on the Range”) and became ...