Dave Tabler, Author at Appalachian History

T for Texas, T for Tennessee

Jimmie “The Singing Brakeman” Rodgers was born outside Meridian, MS, but he staked his claim to country music fame in Appalachia.

But let me try to quit and some woman’s man will come a-running from yan way, and afore I knows it I’m a’tagging at his heels to help.

The first day I arrived at the park, May 31, I heard rumors about the blind fish, especially that no authentic record was known of them here.

Merle Travis’ song achieved much of its fame when it was performed by Johnny Cash in his Folsom Prison concert on January 13, 1968.

When I asked the oldest surviving member of my father’s family about the name, Uncle Charlie replied, “Pap was named after a Jewish peddler.”

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