Going to get real old school...  Some songs from the first Country superstar,  Jimmie Rodgers.  I say Country because it wasn't called Country back then. There was no such thing as either Country or Blues as a separate genre back then. This is 1920s we're talking about. The idea of Country and Blues as separate and distinct genres didn't even begin until about the early 1940s.     Jimmie Rodgers  is also interesting because he had just as big of an influence on the Blues genre as Country, because like I said in his days there was no such thing as Blues and Country as separate and distinct genres, he was one of the main influences, I would say  the  main influence on the development of both of those genres as we now know them. He was a contemporary of Charley Patton aka the Father of the Delta Blues(a mulatto by the way), Patton was only about 5 years older, and Patton was only a local celebrity, whereas Rodgers was a nationwide superstar who was on tv and radio all the time so more people would've heard his music than Patton's,and been influenced by it. Rodgers also preceded legendary Black Bluesman Robert Johnson, and Johnson, like every musician in Mississippi at the time, used to listen to Rodgers' music, because Rodgers was a major star in his day, so you know he had an influence on his style.  Jimmie Rodgers  helped lay the foundation not only for what would come to be called Country music but also for the Delta Blues and Blues in general. Most of the Black Bluesmen who came after Jimmie Rodgers, especially in Rodgers' home state of Mississippi, were heavily influenced by him. Bluesmen like Muddy Waters, Big Bill Broonzy, the Mississippi Sheiks and Howlin' Wolf have all cited Rodgers as a primary influence. Howlin' Wolf got his signature howl vocal style from trying to immitate Rodgers' blue yodel. As a kid,  Jimmie Rodgers  was Howlin' Wolf's idol, he would listen to him all the time and try to sound just like him, and he tried to immitate Rodgers' yodel but couldn't yodel, all he got was a howling sound, and so he stuck with it. For his contributions to the birth of the Delta Blues and Blues in general,  Jimmie Rodgers  is the only White man to have a marker on the famous Mississippi Blues Trail for his importance to the development of Blues in Mississippi. But his great importance to the development of Blues music often gets overlooked these days...because he was White, of course. So they just like to talk about his importance to the development of Country and not acknowledge his equal impact on Blues. Just a bit of trivia for anyone who's interested. I tend to ramble. :)    PS- Jimmie Rodgers was known to be the favorite singer of Bonnie & Clyde.:cool:     Gambling Bar Room Blues     TB Blues  (he wrote and sang this while he was dying of terminal TB).     Roll Along Kentucky Moon     Pistol Packing Papa 