Post by Blue Grass Boogiemen

This one came up the other day, in a post by Karen Ott. It’s Arnold playing one of the guitars owned by the Father of Countrymusic Jimmie Rodgers, who died 87 years ago this month. It had been owned by Hank Snow for years and now hangs in a museum. The owner was kind enough to let Arnold use it for recording with legendary banjoplayer Butch Robins in Virginia back in 2007. Funny little anecdote by Arnold: Holding this piece of history in my hands, it reminded me of when I, as a young teenager and Jimmie Rodgers fan, once sneaked out of the house in the middle of the night, to go to a nearby park to try to learn to yodel like Jimmie. I didn’t dare to do that at the house where my parents and four brothers could hear me, so I thought the park at night would be a safe place to try to get it down. Next day however, my mother suddenly remarked that she had had the strangest dream; it was almost like someone had been yodelling outside. I never said a word.