Gamble Rogers
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Website | www.gamblerogers.org |
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.[1]
Biography
Born in
Gamble Rogers began performing around Florida in the 1960s, often performing with other Florida singer-songwriters
While Rogers was camping at Flagler Beach, a frightened young girl ran to him, begging him to help her father, who was in trouble in rough surf. Compromised by spinal arthritis that had been worsening since childhood, Rogers nevertheless grabbed an air mattress and headed into the ocean in a rescue attempt. Both men died in the surf. In honor of his heroism, the Florida Legislature renamed the state park Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach. In St. Augustine, Florida, there is a middle school, Gamble Rogers Middle School, named after him.[3]
Rogers received a tribute in the pages of Record Collector in 2023.[4][5]
Songs and stories
The characters and places in the fictional Oklawaha County, are a recurring theme in Rogers' songs and stories, although his earlier works referenced characters of the same names residing in non-fictional Winter Park, Florida, and Habersham County, Georgia.
Through years of onstage apprenticeship, Rogers refined and polished his one-man show into a single story line – a continuum he entitled,
Oklawaha records
During the years since Rogers' death, his agent and business manager, Charles Steadham, acquired the intellectual property rights to Rogers' work and founded Oklawaha Records in Gainesville, Florida to present this material. Steadham has remastered and re-released most of Rogers' songs and stories, making them available through the website of the not-for-profit Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation, Inc.[6]
Catalog Number | Album/CD | Year | Originally published by | Original Year |
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OK1001 | The Lord Gives Me Grace And the Devil Gives Me Style |
1996 | Mountain Railroad Records, Inc | 1977 |
OK1002 | Gamble Rogers Live: The Warm Way Home |
1996 | Mountain Railroad Records, Inc | 1980 |
OK1003 | Sorry Is As Sorry Does |
2001 | Flying Fish Records | 1986 |
OK1004 | Oklawaha County Laissez-Faire |
1996 | Oklawaha Records | 1996 |
OK1005 | Signs of a Misspent Youth | 1999 | Oklawaha Records | 1999 |
OK1006 | Good Causes |
2003 | Oklawaha Records | 2003 |
Award
Gamble Rogers was posthumously awarded the Kiwanis Award for bravery, the Carnegie Award for heroism, induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame[7] and the NSA Lifetime Achievement Award (2001).
References
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (May 2009) |
- ^ Gamble Rogers Florida Artists Hall of Fame
- ^ The Oracle of Oklawaha: Gamble Rogers, Southern gentlemen, Fretboard Journal, Fall 2006
- ^ "Gamble Rogers Middle School -". stjohns.k12.fl.us.
- ^ Record Collector March 2023
- ^ https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/under-the-radar-17
- ^ "Gamble Rogers Memorial Foundation: Welcome". gamblerogers.org.
- ^ Florida Folk Heritage Award