Song of the day (4/4/2010): Travis Wammack - I'm Leavin' Today
Travis Wammack cut this track when he was 12. It's incredible and hilarious to hear a dude with such a pip-squeaky voice singing about wine, hitting the road, and women doing him wrong.
Besides being able to pick his Gibson 335 at close to the speed of light, just what was the secret to Memphis guitar genius Travis Wammack’s sound? “I used A tenor banjo strings for my G string,” says Wammack, “I’d go into clubs and look at the picker’s guitar and if he didn’t have an unwound third string I knew I could burn him up. I could get the stretchy sound and lay some funk on him.” [Read more at Ponderosa Stomp]
Find out lots more about Wammack over at The Hound Blog.
