The Singing Brakeman

Jimmie Rodgers, the singing brakeman, is sometimes called "the father of country music." He was born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1897, but many do not know that he lived in Kerrville, Texas for a time. He is famous for the song "Blue Yodel," which is also called "T for Texas." After Jimmie Rodgers died in 1933, Rodgers' widow loaned Ernest Tubb her late husband's 1927 Martin 000-45 guitar, which he played for the next forty years. Here is a link to Jimmie Rodgers playing "Waiting for a Train," filmed in 1928.

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Here is Ernest Tubb posing with the Jimmie Rodgers guitar.