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Gene Autry: Guitar
built 291 days ago
Since most of the Gene Autry guitars for sale on eBay were made many years ago, it is reasonable to assume they may not be in perfect condition. Does the seller describe the guitar's flaws or blemishes in detail, and ... show them in pictures?
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B[O]rn to a farming family in 1907 in the East Texas town of Tioga, Autry learned to walk and ride a horse at about the same time. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher, and the youngster became a mainstay in the church choir. When he was a little older, he ... got to be a good hand with a $5 mail order guitar. His family moved to Ravia, Oklahoma when he was 15. After graduating from high school there in 1925, he started working as a railroad telegrapher for the Frisco Line.
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During the early years of his career, Autry took a number of important collaborators and musicians aboard. Among them were Fred Rose, the songwriter (later responsible for "Your Cheatin' Heart") with whom he collaborated on many of his hits, and fiddle player Carl Cotner (who ... played sax, clarinet, and piano), who became his arranger. Autry had a knack for knowing a good song when he heard it (though he almost passed on the biggest hit of his career), and for knowing when a song needed something extra in its arrangement, but it was Cotner who was able to translate his sensibilities into musical notes and arrangements. Mary Ford, later of Les Paul fame, was in Autry's band at one time, and in 1936 Autry signed up a 17-year-old guitar player named Merle Travis, the future country star and songwriter.
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