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Jimmie Rodgers
Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)
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Rodgers cut this one in 1931, and it kept getting passed hand to hand, Bill Monroe and Roy Acuff in 1940, then Dolly Parton in 1970. Play his first, then hers, and listen for what survived the trip.
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Liner notes
Written by Jimmie Rodgers.
First recorded by Jimmie Rodgers in 1931.
Also recorded by Bill Monroe (1940), Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys (1940), The Fendermen (1959), Dolly Parton (1970).
How you get here
Jimmie Rodgers wrote and first recorded "Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)." Which artist later picked up his yodel and recorded it?Dolly Parton
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