This Artmaster cachet First Day Cover features the 1979 13¢ Jimmie Rodgers Performing Arts stamp issued in Shreveport, Louisiana on October 25, 1979, along with the 3.1¢ "Listen with Love" stamp. The green-and-black cachet depicts a guitarist beneath the slogan "Listen with Love to the Music of the Land" and is inscribed "Americana Series First Day of Issue."
Jimmie Rodgers, known as the "Singing Brakeman," was a pioneering country music artist whose 1920s–1930s recordings laid the foundation for the genre and earned him induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Shreveport was a fitting first-day city, as Rodgers had worked on the railroad there and performed on local radio.
The cachet’s rope-border design and rose motifs echo the folk and railroad themes central to Rodgers’ persona. The cover is addressed to Mrs. E.A. Fickenscher in Erie, Pennsylvania.
A clean, well-centered example that makes an attractive addition for collectors of country music, Americana, or Artmaster cachets.
