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James Gamble Rogers IV (January 31, 1937 – October 10, 1991) was an American folk artist musician and storyteller known for the recurring theme in his songs and stories about characters and places in a fictional Florida county. He was a 1998 inductee into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame.
1937-1991. Welcome to the website for the Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation. This website and the Foundation are dedicated to keeping alive both the memory of Gamble Rogers, a gentleman in the truest sense, and the appreciation of his music and stories which have touched so many of us.
Gamble Rogers balanced a love of balladry and folk songs with a passion for the oral tradition and storytelling. The son and grandson of influential architects, Rogers was described as both a "modern troubadour" and the "resurrection of Will Rogers and Mark Twain". Rogers was a master performer--enchanting an audience with Travis-style guitar finger picking and relating downright rib-tickling ...
Gamble's work has been compared to that of Mark Twain and Will Rogers, and his humanistic perspective seems destined to survive beyond his years. Gamble's stories have grown both in magnitude and scope, becoming as popular as the songs they introduced. While touring in the United States and Canada, his audiences grew steadily in number as fans ...
Gamble Rogers. Photo by Blount, Robert S., courtesy of the State Archives of Florida: Gamble Rogers. On Oct. 10, 1991, beloved Florida folk singer Gamble Rogers and his wife were camping at Flagler Beach State Recreation Area.
Gamble Rogers. Folk Musician, Storyteller. 1937 - 1991. Inducted in 1998. In his 30-year career as one of the South's most well-known folk musicians, Florida native Gamble Rogers appeared as the headline performer at thousands of concerts throughout the U.S. and Canada.
24 de ene. de 2021 · By Joy Wallace Dickinson. PUBLISHED: January 24, 2021 at 5:30 a.m. | UPDATED: September 28, 2021 at 10:01 p.m. In Central Florida, the name Gamble Rogers usually brings to mind the revered...
