A few months later, on October 20, 1928, Jimmie Rodgers recorded four songs but this time with the support of a band (Dean Bryan, guitar; C.L. Hutchison, cornet; John Westbrook, steel guitar; James Rikard, clarinet; George MacMillan, string bass). These songs are some of the best he made, with train whistle imitation in Waiting for a Train and a new Blue Yodel.
Between this time and the next session in 1929, he made a short movie and toured in vaudeville shows around the country, mostly in the Southwest because of his tuberculosis. Here’s one of the clips:
Blue Yodel No.4 (Rodgers)
My Carolina Sunshine Girl (Rodgers)
I’m Lonely and Blue (McWilliams – Rodgers)
Waiting for a Train (Rodgers)
Mademoiselle Montana's Yodel Heaven 