"Meridian Rising" is a kaleidoscopic novel by musician Paul Burch about the final months of country music pioneer Jimmie Rodgers. The book's narrative structure includes a fictional memoir by Rodgers, ...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - It’s hard to understand how someone could become an international sensation before cell phones and televisions, but Jimmie Rodgers did it. “He came at exactly the right time.

As he told me in a 2022 interview, “There’s a certain elemental truth to Jimmie Rodgers as a recording artist. You can learn a lot about the way life really is by listening to him. He didn’t sugarcoat ...