Ted DeGrazia Travis Edmonson Broderick Crawford signing autograph Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona
by David Lee Guss
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Ted DeGrazia Travis Edmonson Broderick Crawford signing autograph Gallery in the Sun Tucson Arizona
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David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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Signing autographs come with celebrity, particularly those in film and TV. Paul Newman never gave another after a fan asked for his signature while he was using a public urinal. John Wayne passed out autographed business cards.
Folk singer Travis Edmonson (1932-2009) excitedly clutches a cigarette in the background, perhaps to upstage Ted and Brod. Travis grew up in the border town of Nogales, Arizona.
"He attended Tucson High School where he further developed as a singer and learned to play the guitar. After high school, Edmonson attended the University of Arizona, where he studied anthropology.
Edmonson took a strong interest in Native American tribes, including the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, helping to produce a Spanish-Yaqui dictionary. As a result, in 1948, the tribe made him an honorary member. Travis studied other native communities, and even lived on an Apache reservation."
His early life along the US/Mexico border developed in him a love of Mexican music. especially mariachi.
"Edmonson was considered a folk music 'pioneer' and influenced groups such as the Kingston Trio. Bob Shane, the only surviving member of the trio, said in an interview that he "idolized him," saying "he had command of the stage better than anyone I've ever seen."
Photos of Travis late in life picture him in a wheelchair with a breathing apparatus in his nose. He suffered a stroke in 1982 and performed little in the next 27 years.
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