So was Jimmie Rodgers singing like someone else/imitating someone else or not?
His music and voice sort of sounded like he was. I agreed with my other classmates who said that he was trying to sound like other popular musicians of his time or borrowing a sort of sound that wasn’t entirely his. His talent is apparent, nonetheless, but it does seem like it was not the original kind of music he was destined for. It seemed that there was more pain in his voice than there was in his actual life and it seemed a little artificial. Still, he was a talented musician and considered one of the first country singers in America. Another good point made in class was that music has the ability and potential to bring us into other selves, you didn’t have to only be confined to one type of persona or music. It was all your own choice.