Listening Blog 2

     For this listening blog, I chose to listen to Blue Yodel No. 2 by Jimmie Rodgers. The first time I listened to this song, my first thoughts were that he was singing about losing his girlfriend or wife and was forced to do some jail time at the Birmingham jail for something that she did. I think in the time when he wrote this song, his target audience was the working man and the man who wanted to have a good time. Mentioning he would not settle down or get married and would keep going until the police shot him down. I think that could be a metaphor for just wanting to go crazy and be rebellious without having a woman tie him down. On the other hand, it could be quite literal for this was the 1920's and I'm sure things were not the most civil. Depending on the crime, he could be serving a long sentence, but it seems that he will be getting out at some point. The guitar has a steady rhythm and his the yodeling he does seems like a form of crooning. It flows nicely with the song and gives it a southern sound. There did not seem to be anything controversial in the lyrics that he was singing. The only thing that sounded semi bad would be when he mentions going until the police gun him down. In today's society everyone freaks out about gun control but I don't think in the 20's many people cared that much. Overall I enjoyed the song. The guitar rhythm is what I enjoyed the most.