Jack learns about the reluctantly influential Elsie McWilliams, who wrote 39 songs for the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers, just to help out her brother-in-law. Songs Featured: Jimmie Rodgers - You and my old guitar Jimmie Rodgers - Blue Yodel #1 (T for Texas) Jimmie Rodgers - Sailor's Plea Jimmie Rodgers - My Little Lady Jimmie Rodgers - Lullaby Yodel Jimmie Rodgers - I'm Lonely and Blue Jimmie Rodgers - Daddy and Home Jimmie Rodgers - My Little Old Home Down in New Orleans Jimmie Rodgers - Everybody Does it in Hawaii King Oliver and His Creole Jazz Band - Everybody Does it in Hawaii Jimmie Rodgers - Tuck Away my Lonesome Blues Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - The Wonderful City Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family - Jimmie Rodgers Meets the Carter Family Ernest Tubb - Walkin' the Floor over You Ernest Tubb - The Passing of Jimmie Rodgers Ernest Tubb - The Last Thoughts of Jimmie Rodgers Ernest Tubb - Since the Black Cat Crossed my Path Carrie Rodgers - When the Evening Shadows Fall References: Bufwack, M. A., & Oermann, R. K. (1993). Finding her voice: The saga of women in country music. Crown. Green, Douglas M. (1974) Interview with Elsie McWilliams. Courtesy of the Country Music Foundation. Mazor, B. (2009). Meeting Jimmie Rodgers : How America's original roots music hero changed the pop sounds of a century. Oxford University Press. Porterfield, N. (2007). Jimmie Rodgers: the life and times of America's blue yodeler. Univ. Press of Mississippi. Rodgers, C. (1995). My Husband, Jimmie Rodgers: Vol. 2nd ed. Vanderbilt University Press. Wynne, B. (2014). In Tune: Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, and the Roots of American Music. LSU Press. Support Women in Music: Country Soul Songbook Connect with Jack: wildwoodflowerpod@gmail.com Instagram @wildwoodflowerpod Support Jack www.venmo.com/u/Jack-Peterson-110