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Travis Wammack
12+ albums
Southern Rockcountrysoulrockblues
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Travis Wammack (born November 1946 in Walnut, Mississippi; died February 27, 2026) was an American rock and roll guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee. He began his professional music career when he wrote and recorded his first record at the age of eleven. A child prodigy, Wammack's first record was issued when he was twelve years old and at 17 he hit the American charts with "Scratchy", an instrumental which peaked at #80 in 1964 Wammack got work recording at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the 1960s and in 1975 released a solo album which generated two hits in the U.S. "Easy Evil" (#72; written by Alan O'Day), and "(Shu-Doo-Pa-Poo-Poop) Love Being Your Fool" (Billboard Hot 100 #38; written by Jerry Williams, Jr. and Charlie Whitehead. He was Little Richard’s band leader from 1984 until 1995. He wrote "Greenwood, Mississippi" which Richard recorded in 1970, featuring Wammack on lead guitar. In 1988, Richard recorded Wammack’s “(There's) No Place Like Home“, planned as a new single, but shelved. It is featured on an Australian DVD of a 1989 concert, “Giants of Rock and Roll”. Still performing, Travis now works with Muscle Shoals Music Marketing, and has added record producer to his resume. He is a member of the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and in 1999 Wammack received the Professional Musician Award from the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. In 2005, he was inducted into The Southern Legends Entertainment & Performing Arts Hall of Fame. In May 2006, Gibson Guitars presented
top songs
albums
That Scratchy Guitar From Memphis
Easy Evil
Memphis + Muscle Shoals = Travis Wammack
Country Got Soul
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Delta Swamp Rock Sounds From The South: At The Crossroad of Rock, Country and Soul
Country in My Soul
Travis Wammack
Not For Sale
Snake, Rattle & Roll in Muscle Shoals
Shotgun Woman
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Delta Swamp Rock
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Delta Swamp Rock - Sounds From The South : At The Crossroads Of Rock, Country And Soul [Disc 2]