Jimmie Rodgers

Mississippi rail worker turned country crooner is considered by many to be the prime “influencer” of the country genre.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Minstral of the Appalachians – Bascom Lamar Lunsford Bascom Lunsford was born in 1882 into a musical family on the campus of Mars Hill College, where his father taught. Surrounded by the rural mountain life of western North Carolina, Bascom grew up steeped in traditional music. His great-uncle sawed up a storm on the fiddle…