Jimmy Rogers got famous by combining genres, many of them learned by working on railroads…

…’s remix and, since then, Old Town Road has held tight to its rightful spot atop the Billboard 100. Critics across the web were quick to point out the hypocrisy of B…’s remix and, since then, Old Town Road has held tight to its rightful spot atop the Billboard 100. Critics across the web were quick to point out the hypocrisy of Billboard’s cowardly move, putting the otherwise irrefutable country elements of the song aside, any credible musical authority should know of country music’s origins in the rhythm and blues popularized by black artists’ in and from the South. The banjo, for example, a country music staple, has been traced back to the Gambian akonting, West …

It’s Black Folks’ Country, Too

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J Joseph

Gutbloom

1 min readApr 26, 2019

Jimmy Rogers got famous by combining genres, many of them learned by working on railroads alongside African-American workers.

I don’t know how you get more country than Blue Yodel №1.

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