Released 1956 Label Righteous | Recorded 1955 Release date 1 January 1956 | |
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The Merle Travis Guitar was the first solo guitar album by Merle Travis, recorded in 1955 when Travis was at the peak of his performing abilities and released on January 1, 1956. Together with another Capitol release of the previous year, Back Home, it introduced the style of guitar playing that came to be known as Travis picking to a wide public of finger-style guitarists and folk music enthusiasts. The album contains a selection of traditional guitar pickers' tunes from Travis' native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and includes old standards, blues and rags.
Contents
Track listing
- "Blue Smoke"
- "Black Diamond Blues"
- "On a Bicycle Built for Two"
- "Saturday Night Shuffle"
- "Bugle Call Rag"
- "Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old 'Tucky Home"
- "Walkin' the Strings"
- "The Memphis Blues"
- "The Sheik of Araby"
- "Blue Bell"
- "The Waltz You Saved for Me"
- "Rockabye Rag"
Personnel
Songs
1Blue Smoke2:02
2Black Diamond Blues3:05
3On a Bicycle Built for Two1:33
References
The Merle Travis Guitar Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA