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Jimmie Rodgers

Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)

1931 · via Jimmie Rodgers

Jimmie Rodgers wrote “Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1931. Also recorded by Bill Monroe (released 1940), Bob Dylan (released 1991) and Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys (released 1992), among 70 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

Jimmie Rodgers – Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)
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Rodgers put this one down in 1931, and it kept getting handed forward: Bill Monroe in 1940, Dolly in 1970, Dylan in 1991. Start with his, then hear what she did with it.

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Credited writer: Jimmie Rodgers.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1931.

Other recordings on file · first release year

70 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Jimmie Rodgers wrote and first recorded "Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues)." Bill Monroe and Bob Dylan later recorded it. Which other singer took it on?Dolly Parton
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