As part of our continuing series "California Songs," we hear from Jimmie Rodgers, the "Father of Country Music." Though he was best known for songs about his native Mississippi or peach-pickin' time in Georgia, Rodgers did visit the Golden State and it inspired his Blue Yodel Number Four -- "The California Blues."
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