In Boston, 1959
Merle Travis
Producer: Mike Seeger
Rounder Select, 2003
1 CD
Catalogue #: 610 451
EAN: 0682161045122
UPC: 682161045122
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Recorded live at Jordan Hall in Boston, Massachussets on November 21, 1959.
Tracklist
1
Nine Pound Hammer
2
Welcoming Remarks
3
Goodbye My Bluebelle
4
Dark as a Dungeon
5
John Henry
6
Reminiscences About From Here to Eternity
7
Reenlistment Blues
8
I'll See You in My Dreams
9
Sixteen Tons Intro
10
Sixteen Tons
11
Saturday Night Shuffle
12
Remarks About Kids' Songs
13
Muskrat
14
That's All
15
Lost John
16
Comic Rap
17
Cannonball Rag
18
Memphis Blues
19
Remarks About Hollywood, Trains, Eating
20
Hominy Grits
21
Liza Jane
22
I Am a Pilgrim
Merle Travis
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.
