Merle Travis - The Definitive Collection

Title: The Definitive Collection Artist: Merle Travis Release Date: 6/9/2008 Label: Performance Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 5024952382866 Genre: Country Styles: Traditional Country, Instrumental Country, Country Boogie, Americana Moods: Amiable/Good-Natured, Lively, Innocent, Organic, Confident, Playful, Sentimental, Freewheeling, Gentle, Light, Refined/Mannered, Reflective, Relaxed, Smooth, Stylish, Warm, Earnest, Complex, Earthy Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. Ain't That a Crying Shame
2. Blues Stay Away from Me
3. Cincinnati Lou
4. Crazy Boogie
5. Dark as a Dungeon
6. Divorce Me C.O.D.
7. Fat Gal
8. I Am a Pilgrim
9. I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size
10. I'm a Natural Born Gambling Man
11. I'm Sick and Tired of You Now
12. John Henry
13. Kentucky Means Paradise
14. Lawdy What a Girl
15. Lost John
16. Louisiana Boogie
17. Merle's Boogie Woogie
18. Missouri
19. Guitar Rag
20. Muskrat

1. Nine Pound Hammer
2. No Vacancy
3. Over by Number Nine
4. Philosophy
5. Pigmeat Strut
6. Sioux City Sue
7. Sixteen Tons
8. So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed
9. Start Even
10. Steel Guitar Rag
11. Sweet Temptation
12. T for Texas
13. That's All
14. Three Times Seven
15. What a Shame
16. When My Baby Double Talks to Me
17. Done Rovin'
18. If We Never Meet Again
19. Over in Gloryland
20. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Year Type Label Catalog # 2008 CD Performance 38286

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The thumb- and index-finger guitar picking method Merle Travis learned as a kid in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky served him very well throughout his long career, and he developed into one of the most skilled and innovative guitar players on the country (or any other) scene, capable of making an acoustic or electric guitar sound like a complete swing orchestra, a style so his own that it has its own name ("Travis picking"). Travis also had a comfortable, warm voice, and considerable skills as a songwriter, making him a triple-threat performer, and he merged folk and country with jazz and swing textures into an easy, down-home populist tone. This two-disc, 40-track set has his most famous songs ("Dark as a Dungeon," "Sixteen Tons," "Divorce Me C.O.D."), plus a whole lot more, including several of his stunning guitar instrumentals. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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