Sam Myers - between mid 20th Century and early 21st Century

from Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story, page 92:

Ever since day one, there have been a lot of people, even if they have a style directly of their own, they usually had a tendency to copy off the other person before they went into their own thing. But a lot of them who started out that way never changed. They grew to be old men and their styles stayed the same. There's a gentleman called "Guitar Gable." There's so many people who sounded like him, until you never knew who was who, because they not only sounded like him, they used the same name. I know of about three or four Guitar Gables. The original was a blues guitarist who also played …   more >>

cite as

Jeff Horton and Sam Myers, Sam Myers: The Blues is My Story (City of Jackson, 2006), p. 92. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1432714781437 accessed: 23 April, 2024

Listeners

Sam Myers
memoirist, vocalist, Musician
1936-2006

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Blues Guitar performed by Clarence Garlow, Lonnie Brooks, Guitar Junior, Luther Johnson, Guitar Gable

Experience Information

Date/Time between mid 20th Century and early 21st Century

Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Wed, 27 May 2015 09:19:41 +0100
Approved on Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:28:23 +0100