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Jimmie Rodgers"The Singing Breakman". Rodgers was the first Country & Western superstar. He was one of the first 3 musicians to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame (with Fred Rose and Hank Williams). Jimmie Rodgers is a big part of how "Rock' n' Roll" developed in America. As a railroad worker he learned the blues form the
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