C’mon, everyone knows that’s where he belongs. And everybody knows who I mean.
Jimmie Rodgers wasn’t long out of the railroad yards when he cut this disc in 1928 in Camden, N.J., just a couple of months after “Blue Yodel No. 1” made him famous. The song was already circulating widely; various versions with different verses were recorded and copyrighted before Rodgers’, but he’s the one most associated with the song.
Modern audiences, at the least fans of the Coen brothers’ films, will recognize the tune from “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” when the Soggy Bottom Boys backed Tim Blake Nelson’s vocal. And yes, that’s John Turturro doing his own yodeling.
