Don’t Call Me Mister
Gamble Rogers’ lost interview with Merle Travis
By Harold Fethe, courtesy of the Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation
This article originally appeared in the Fretboard Journal's 34th issue
If you’ve played guitar in this century--or in the last two-thirds of the prior one--you’ve likely heard of an early innovator whose restless energy, multiple aptitudes and voracious appetites for invention fueled an enduring legend: Merle Robert Travis.
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