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Merle Travis Story -- 24 Greatest Hits (CD)

By: Merle Travis (Artist)

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Merle Travis Artist Snapshot:

One of the most influential country guitarists, Merle Travis inaugurated a cross-picking style of guitar playing in the 1930s and '40s that was forever after known as "Travis picking" and became a standard technique in country, folk, and rock. His guitar mastery sometimes overshadows his songwriting; born in Kentucky mining country, Travis wrote the miner's laments "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons," both of which became country standards. Travis made his final recordings for the CMH label in the late '70s and died of a heart attack in 1983.

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DISC 1 for Merle Travis Story -- 24 Greatest Hits (CD) Album By Merle Travis (Artist)
1   John Henry
2   Start Even
3   Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
4   Lazy River
5   So Round So Firm So Fully Packed
6   Sweet Temptation
7   Divorce Me C. O. D.
8   I Am A Pilgrim
9   Cincinatti Lou
10   Dance Of The Goldenrod
11   Fat Gal
12   Re-Enlistment Blues
13   Nine Pound Hammer
14   Kentucky Means Paradise
15   Sixteen Tons
16   Steel Guitar Rag
17   Goodbye My Bluebell
18   I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size
19   When My Baby Double Talks To Me
20   Dark As A Dungeon
21   I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man
22   Bayou Baby
23   I'll See You In My Dreams
24   That's All
 

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Personnel: Merle Travis (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Herb Remington (steel guitar); Johnny Gimble (mandolin, fiddle); Alex Brashear (trumpet); Curly Hollingsworth (piano); Buddy Harman (drums).

Recording information: John Wagner Studios, Albuquerque, NM (06/01/1979).

Photographer: Woody Woodward.

Although The Merle Travis Story -- 24 Greatest Hits consists of re-recordings from the late '70s, it gives a better sense of why Travis was important than Rhino's The Best of Merle Travis. Unlike Rhino's set, CMH concentrates on Travis' guitar playing, which is why he was an important musician. Therefore, it gives a far better sense of why the guitarist was a revered, influential artist than the vocal hits of Rhino's collection, even if the music was recorded late in his career. ~ Thom Owens

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