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doesn’t). Worldwide he’s known as the King of Hillbilly. Tex began his career in show business in 1933, the year he first heard a Jimmie Rodgers’ recording.
Since then he’s been Jimmie’s biggest fan and was the first life member of the Jimmie Rodgers Foundation. He was also the first international star to hold the flag in the Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival held annually in Meridian, Miss, and to which he’ll travel to perform this trip, after he visits Georgia and Alabama.
In 1939, Tex bought a dobro guitar
See Tex, Page A-8
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