DAVIS, JIMMIE
(1902–2000)
DAVIS, JIMMIE (b. James Houston D., Beech Springs, La., September 11, 1902; d. Baton Rouge, La., November 5, 2000) Davis was a country SINGER/SONGWRITER and onetime governor of Louisiana who had a career that could happen only in country music; he began as a warmed-over JIMMIE RODGERS imitator, moved into hokum and off-color material, then became a well-known song-writer of sentimental songs (You Are My Sunshine), and, in a final twist, took up GOSPEL singing. Davis came from a rural background…