Chanteur et
guitariste Country US né le 29 novembre 1917 à Rosewood (Kentucky), Merle Travis a débuté en 1935 comme guitariste des "Tennessee Tomcats". Mais ce n'est qu'en 1946 qu'il enregistrera son premier disque chez Columbia. Il fut l'une des grandes figures de la Country Music
et fut élu au Nashville Songwriters Hall Of Fame en 1970 et au Country Music
Hall Of Fame en 1977. Merle est mort brusquement le 20 octobre 1983 à Tahlequah
(Oklahoma).
Merle Travis
was virtually without peer as a guitarist and songwriter. A unique stylist, he
was respected and prominent enough to have an instrumental style ("Travis
picking") named after him, and only Chet
Atkins even comes close to the influence that Travis had on the way the
guitar is understood and played in country music. (Indeed,
Atkins was initially signed to RCA to be
that label's Merle Travis.) As a songwriter, he wasn't far behind, with
originals such as "Sixteen Tons" crossing over as popular standards in the hands
of other artists. He even played two different vital and indirect roles in the
development of rock & roll, and was no slouch as a recording artist, with his
own share of chart hits and novelty songs.
Merle Robert Travis was born on November 29, 1917, in Rosewood, KY. His father
was a coalminer, and the family lived on the bare edge of poverty; eventually
this experience, coupled with a phrase that Travis' father used to describe
their lives, became the basis for the song "Sixteen Tons." His very first
instrument was a five-string banjo, but when he was 12 year old his older
brother gave him a homemade guitar. Travis was lucky enough to have as neighbors
Ike Everly, later the father of Don and
Phil, and Mose Rager, who played in a
unique three-finger guitar style that had developed in that area of Kentucky.
Travis learned this approach as a teenager and grew astonishingly proficient in
a repertory that included blues, ragtime, and popular tunes. It wasn't enough to
earn a living, and he survived by working in the Civilian Conservation Corps as
a teenager.
His first break came during a visit to his brother's home in Evansville, IN, in
1935, where his chance to entertain at a local dance resulted in membership in a
couple of local bands and a chance to appear on a local radio station. By 1937,
he was a member of Clayton McMichen's Georgia Wildcats, and a year later he'd
moved on to the Drifting Pioneers, who found a permanent broadcasting gig at
Cincinnati's WLW. The Boone Country Jamboree radio show kept the group busy
until World War II came along and forced it to disband. While a member of the
Drifting Pioneers, Travis acquired a national following, and also began playing
with Grandpa Jones and the Delmore
Brothers in a gospel quartet called
the Brown's Ferry Four. He later teamed up with
Jones as "the Shepherd Brothers" as
the first artists to record for the newly founded King Records label in 1943. He
and Jones even exchanged songs and
found the sources for a few songs together — it was while out with
Jones
one day at a black church in Cincinnati that Travis heard the sermon that became
the song "That's All."
Travis spent a short stint in the Marines, but was quickly discharged and
returned to Cincinnati. During the late winter of 1944, he headed for Los
Angeles, where he began making appearances in Charles Starrett's Western movies
and playing with Ray Whitley's Western swing band. With guidance from
Tex Ritter and bassist
Cliffie Stone, in 1946 he released the
topical song "No Vacancy" — dealing with the displacement of returning veterans
— along with "Cincinnati Lou," and earned a double-sided hit. His next major
project was a concept album, Folk Songs of the Hills, which was intended
to compete with Burl Ives' successful folk recordings. The record, released as a
set of four 78-rpm discs, was a failure at the time it was released in 1947 (it
wasn't even transferred to long-playing disc until nearly ten years later).
However, it yielded several classics, among them the Travis originals "Sixteen
Tons," "Dark as a Dungeon," and "Over by Number Nine," as well as introducing
such standards as "Nine Pound Hammer"; it also became a unique document,
depicting a beautiful all-acoustic solo guitar performance by this master
virtuoso.
The initial failure of the folk album aside, 1947 began a boom period in Travis'
career. In addition to writing the million-selling hit "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!"
for his friend Tex Williams, he had a
half-dozen Top Ten records himself, including "Divorce Me C.O.D.," "So Round, So
Firm, So Fully Packed," and "Three Times Seven." Travis also devised the first
solid-body electric guitar, coming up with a model which, when perfected by Leo
Fender, would become a key element in early rock & roll. The string of hits
didn't last, but Travis' career continued uninterrupted, with performances on
stage, television, and record. Beginning in 1953, he landed a fairly visible
movie role in one of the biggest films of the year, From Here to Eternity,
where he performed "Re-Enlistment Blues," and it was around that same time that
he began playing on all of his friend
Hank Thompson's records. In 1955,
Tennessee Ernie Ford had his crossover hit with "Sixteen Tons," and it was
around that same time that Travis acolytes such as
Atkins were making a major impact on
music themselves. Scotty Moore, who'd
first been influenced by Travis from his radio performances, had become
Elvis Presley's lead guitarist, and a
year after Elvis hit nationally,
the Everly Brothers (themselves
Atkins disciples) started topping the
charts.
Travis was one of those musical figures who was referred to constantly, either
musically or literally, by dozens of major figures, but he was never able to
ascend the charts himself again. Much of the problem lay in his personal life.
Along with a reputation as one of country music's top axemen, Travis also became
known as a wildman, especially when he drank. He was arrested more than once for
public intoxication and drunk driving — on his motorcycle — and in 1956 there
was a highly publicized report of police surrounding his home after he assaulted
his wife. Then, during the early '60s, he was hospitalized briefly after being
arrested while driving under the influence of narcotics. He managed to pull his
professional life together in the mid-'60s to do one new folk-style album,
Songs of the Coal Mines, which, like its predecessor Folk Songs of the
Hills, failed to sell on its original release. His other albums — mostly
instrumental, such as Walkin' the Strings — proved much more significant
and influential at the time as standard acquisitions for aspiring guitarists. He
still played occasionally and became something of a star on the college folk
circuit, teaming with Atkins for the
Grammy-winning Atkins-Travis Traveling Show in 1974. Travis finally
seemed to settle down after he married his fourth wife, Dorothy — the former
wife of his longtime friend Hank
Thompson — and focused once again on music. He recorded tribute albums to
the Georgia Wildcats and began working again with old associates like
Grandpa Jones, and it looked like
Travis was to enjoy a resurgence of musical and public acclaim. At age 65,
however, he suffered a massive heart attack and died the following morning.
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Talents : Singer, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Instrumental Country, Country-Boogie, Traditional Country, Country-Folk
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DISCOGRAPHY
78 t., Singles & EP
| 1946 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 258 (US) | . | No Vacancy / Cincinnati Lou |
| 1946 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 290 (US) | . | Divorce Me C.O.D. / Missouri |
| 1946 | 78 t. CAPITOL 349 (US) | . |
Sweet Temptation
/ So Round, So Firm, So Fully
Packed |
| 1947 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 384 (US) | . | Steel Guitar Rag / Three Times Seven |
| 1947 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 463 (US) | . | Spoonin' Moon / Too Much Sugar |
| 1947 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 849 (US) | . | Guitar Rag / Cane Bottom Chair |
| 1947 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 965 (US) | . | Start Even / Mean Ol' Woman |
| 1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL A40006 (US) | Lawdy, What A Gal / I'm Sick And Tired Of You | |
| 1947 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL A40026 (US) | . | Merle's Boogie Woogie / Fat Gal |
| 1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40050 (US) | . | Follow Thru / I Like My Chicken Fryin' |
| 1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40100 (US) | . | Kentucky Means Paradise / When My Baby Double Talks To Me |
| 1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40115 (US) | . | Fool At Steering / Alimony Bound |
| 1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40143 (US) | . | Sioux City Sue / + Tex RITTER |
| 1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15212 (US) | . | T For Texas / Leave My Honey Bee Alone |
| 1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15265 (US) | . | Missouri / No Vacancy |
| 1948 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 15317 (US) | . | Dapper Dan / What A Shame |
| 1949 ? | 78 t. CAPITOL 40272 (US) | . | A Petitcoat Fever / Pickin' Up The Pieces |
| 19?? | 78 t. CAPITOL 48004 (US) | . | Sioux City Sue / Fort Worth Jail |
| 1950 | SP CAPITOL 1029 (US) | . | Cane Bottom Chair / Guitar Rag |
| 1950 | SP CAPITOL 1146 (US) | . | Spoonin' Moon / ? |
| 1950 | SP CAPITOL 1241 (US) | . | El Reno / Trouble Trouble |
| 1951 | SP CAPITOL 1337 (US) | . | Wont'cha Be My Baby / Dry Bread |
| 1951 | SP CAPITOL 1519 (US) | . | Deep South / Boogie In Minor |
| 1951 | SP CAPITOL 1737 (US) | . | Let's Settle Down / Lost John Boogie |
| 1951 | SP CAPITOL 1800 (US) | . | Done Rovin' / Faithful Fool |
| 1952 ? | SP CAPITOL 2014 (US) | . | Kinfolks In Carolina / A Rainy Day Feeling |
| 1952 | SP CAPITOL 2136 (US) | . | Too Fast Past / Ain't That A Cryin' Shame? |
| 1952 | SP CAPITOL 2175 (US) | . | Merle's Boogie Woogie / Steel Guitar Rag |
| 1952 | SP CAPITOL 2176 (US) | . | I Am A Pilgrim / Nine Pound Hammer |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2336 (US) | . | Bayou Baby / Knee Deep In Trouble |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2453 (US) | . | I'll Have Myself A Ball / Green Cheese |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2544 (US) | . | Shut Up And Drink Your Beer / Gambler's Guitar |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2563 (US) | . | Re-Enlistment Blues / Dance Of The Golden Rod |
| 1953 | SP CAPITOL 2624 (US) | . | The Super Highway / A World Full Of Roses |
| 1954 | SP CAPITOL 2757 (US) | . | Jolie Fille / I Can't Afford The Coffee |
| 1954 | SP CAPITOL 2902 (US) | . | Love Must Be Ketchin' / Louisiana Boogie |
| 1954 ? | SP CAPITOL F3194 (US) | . | Cuddle Up A Little Closer Lovey Mine / Beer Barrel Polka |
| 1955 | SP CAPITOL F3247 (US) | . | Hunky Dory / If You Want It I Got It |
| 04/1955 | SP CAPITOL F3106 (US) | . | Merle TRAVIS & Hank THOMPSON - Wildwood Flower / Breakin' In Another Heart |
| 19?? | SP CAPITOL 3362 (US) | . | Lazy River / Turn My Picture Upside Down |
| 195? | EP CAPITOL EAP-1032 (US) |
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THE MERLE TRAVIS
GUITAR - Blue Smoke
/ Black Diamond Blues / The Waltz You Saved Me For /
Rockabye Rag |
| 195? | EP CAPITOL EAP-10321 (US) |
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GUITAR |
| 1957 | EP CAPITOL EAP-1-891 (US) |
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BACK HOME PART. 1 - Nine Pound Hammer / Dark As A Dungeon / Muskrat /853 Over By Number NIne |
| 19?? | SP CAPITOL 5657 (US) | . | John Henry, Jr. / That Same Ol' Natural Urge |
| 1966 | SP CAPITOL 5764 (US) | . | Moon Over The Motel / That Tennessee Beat |
| 1966 | SP CAPITOL 5876 (US) | . | Wildwood Flower / Farther On Down The Road |
| 1966 | SP CAPITOL 5965 (US) | . | Country Joe / You're A Little Bit cuter |
Albums
| 1956 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-650 (US) |
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THE MERLE TRAVIS GUITAR - Blue Smoke / Black Diamond Blues / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Saturday Night Shuffle / Bugle Call Rag / Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Kentucky Home / Walkin' The Strings / Memphis Blues / Shiek Of Araby / Blue Bell / Waltz You Saved For Me / Rockabye Rag | |||||
| 1957 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-891 (US) |
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BACK HOME - Nine Pound Hammer / That's All / John Bolin / Muskart / Dark As A Dungeon / John Henry / Sixteen Tons / Possum Up A Simmon Tree / I Am A Pilgrim / Over By No 9 / Barbara Allen / Lost John | |||||
| 1960 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-1391 (US) |
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WALKIN' THE STRINGS - Walkin' The Strings / Little David Play On Your Harp / Saturday Night Shuffle / Thumbing The Bass / Cane Break Blues / Darby's Ram / Everly Rag / Rose Time / Old Aunt Dinah / My Old Kentucky Home / Pigmeat Stomp / Blue Smoke / Dry Bread / Louisville Clog / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Grren Bay Polka / Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel / Travis Trot / Cannon Ball Stomp / Fuller Blues / Blue Bell / Take My Hand, Precious Lord | |||||
| 1962 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST-1664 (US) |
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TRAVIS - So Round So Firm So Fully Packed / Cincinnati Lou / Sweet Temptation / Lawdy What A Gal / Three Times Seven / No Vacancy / Divorce Me COD / Fat Gal / Kentucky Means Paradise / When My Baby Double Talks To Me / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size / Kinfolks In Carolina | |||||
| 1963 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST-1956 (US) |
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SONGS OF THE COAL MINES - Black Gold / Harlan County Boys / Pay Day Comes Too Slow / Browder Explosion / Bloody Brethitt County / Here's To The Operator Boys / Miner's Wife / Courtship Of Second Cousin Claude / Miner's Strawberries / Paw Walked Behind Us With A Carbide Lamp / Preacher Lane / Dear Old Halifax | |||||
| 1964 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST-2102 (US) |
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MERLE TRAVIS AND JOE MAPHIS - Corrine Corrina / Big Midnight Special / Don't Let Your Deal Go Down / Bayou Baby / Guitar Rag / Blast Off / When It's Time For The Whippoorwill To Sing / West Coast Blues / Main Street Breakdown / Picture On The Wall / Kentucky Waltz / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar | |||||
| 1967 | LP 12" CAPITOL DT-2662 (US) |
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THE BEST OF MERLE TRAVIS - Sweet Temptation / Sixteen Tons / Follow Thru / John Bolin / Three Times Seven / Fat Gal / I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man / Dark As A Dungeon / I'm Sick And Tired Of You Little Darling / Nine Pound Hammer / Steel Guitar Rag / I Am A Pilgrim | |||||
| 1967 | LP 12" HILLTOP JS-6040 (US) |
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OUR MAN FROM KENTUCKY - Alimony Bound / Fool At The Steering Wheel / Get Along Blues / What A Shame / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size / I'm Sick And Tired Of You Little Darling / Information Please / Devil To Pay / Missouri / Leave My Honey Bee Alone | |||||
| 1968 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST-2938 (US) |
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STRICTLY GUITAR - Heart Of My Heart / Lazy River / Guitar Rag / Dance Of The Goldenrod / Cuddle Up A Little Closer / Cannonball Rag / Ma He's Making Eyes At Me / I'll See You In My Dreams / I Gotta Have My Baby Back / Way Down Yonder In New Orleans / Fishers Horn Pipe | |||||
| 1969 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST-248 (US) |
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GREAT SONGS OF DELMORE BROTHERS - MERLE TRAVIS & JOHNNY BOND - Blues Stay Away From Me / Blue Railroad Train / There's More Pretty Girls / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar / Field Hand Man / Brown's Ferry Blues / Blow Yo' Whistle / Beautiful Brown Eyes / When It's Thime / Weary Lonesome Blues | |||||
| 1974 | LP 12" RCA VICTOR APL1 0479 (US) |
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THE ATKINS AND TRAVIS TRAVELING SHOW - (Merle TRAVIS & Chet ATKINS) - Down South Blues / Mutual Admiration / Muskart Ramble / If I Had You / Cannonball Rag / Boogie For Cecil / Anything Better Than This / Dance On The Golden Rod / Who's Sorry Now / Nine Pound Hammer / I'll See You In My Dreams | |||||
| 1976 | LP 12" SHASTA LP-523 (US) |
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GUITAR PLAYER - Kentucky Waltz / Texas Tornado / Follow Through / Bye Bye Blues / Hominy Grits / Song Of The Steamboat / Gambler's Guitar / John Henry / I'll See You In My Dreams / Guitar Rag / Sixteen Tons / Nobody | |||||
| 1979 | LP 12" CMH 9017 (US) |
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COUNTRY GUITAR GIANTS - (Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS) - Free Little Bird / Mose Rager Blues / Alabama Jubilee / Hear Dem Bells / Eight More Miles To Louisville / Little Rosewood Casket / John Henry / Cannonball Rag / Beer Barrel Polka / My Adobe Hacienda / Lover / Snow Deer / Ike Everly's Rag / Sweet Bunch Of Daisies / Somebody Stole My Gal / San Antonio Rose / Lil' Liza Jane / Bury Me Beneath The Willow / High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) / Down Among The Budded Roses / Freight Train / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Wildwood Flower / Back In The Saddle Again / Memphis Blues / Black Mountain Rag / Say Si Si / Columbus Stockade Blues / Right Or Wrong / I Saw The Light | |||||
| 1979 | LP 12" CMH 9018 (US) |
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THE MERLE TRAVIS STORY - John Henry / Start Even / Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette / So Round So Firm So Fully Packed / Sweet Temptation / Divorce Me COD / Cincinnati Lou / Dance On The Goldenrod / Fat Gal / Re-Enlistment Blues / Nine Pound Hammer / Kentucky Means Paradise / Sixteen Tons / Steel Guitar Rag / Goodbye My Bluebell / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size / When My Baby Double Talks To Me / Dark As A Dungeon / I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man / Bayou Baby / I'll See You In My Dreams / That's All | |||||
| 1980 | LP 12" CMH 6245 (US) |
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LIGHT SINGIN' HEAVY PICKIN' - Moon Over The Motel / Me And The Doggone Blues / Voodoo / Knee Deep In Trouble / Dorothy / There Ain't A Cow In Texas / Kinfolks In Carolina / Green Cheese / Don't Make Love To Mary (With Mabel On Your Mind) / That Same Ol' Natural Urge / It's Kinda Wonderful / World Full Of Roses | |||||
| 1980 | LP 12" CMH 9024 (US) |
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GUITAR STANDARDS - Don't Get Around Much Anymore / La Marcha De Los Mexicanos / Make Believe / On The Jericho Road / Emaline / For Me And My Gal / After You've Gone / Roaring Twenties Medley / Yes Sir That's My Baby / Margie / Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue / My Gal Sal / Sweet Sue Just You / Red Roses For A Blue Lady / It's De Lovely / Dreamer's Holiday / Mack The Knife / Hot Toddy / House Of David Blues / Way Down Yonder In New Orleans / Sweet And Lovely / Liza, Swanee / Westphalia Waltz / Tribute To Ted Lewis / Me And My Shadow / When My Baby Smiles At Me / If I Had You / Bye Bye Blues / Georgiana Moon / Tea For Two | |||||
| 1981 | LP 12" CMH 6255 (US) |
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TRAVIS PICKIN' - Rose Time / There'll Be Some Changes Made / Born To Lose / Too Tight Rag / You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You / Night Sounds / Sugar Moon / White Heat / Midnight Special / World Is Waiting For The Sunrise / Sleep / Love Letters In The Sand / Drifting And Dreaming / Sing Baby Sing | |||||
| 1981 | LP 12" CMH 6262 (US) |
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ROUGH ROWDY AND BLUE - Cocaine Blues / Merry Christmas Pretty Baby / Stack O'Lee / Whiskey / Jelly Roll Blues / Dry Bread / Honey Take A Whiff On Me / Cario / Step It Up And Go / Key To The Highway / Too Mean To Cry / On The Outskirts Of Town | |||||
| 1982 | LP 12" CMH 4901 (US) |
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COUNTRY GUITAR THUNDER - (Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS) - Ballad Of Thunder Road (Theme From Bonanza) / Nashville Jubilee / Green River / Lonesome Road Blues / Black Mountain Rag / Freight Train / I Don't Love Nobody / Free Little Bird / Liberty / Little Rock Getaway / Flying Fingers / Mose Rager Blues / Wildwood Flower / Alabama Jubilee / John Henry / Already Gone / Li'l Liza Jane / Irish Washerwoman / Eight More Miles To Louisville / Crossroads (Cross Road Blues). | |||||
| 1982 | LP 12" CMH 9032 (US) |
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FARM AND HOME HOUR - (Merle TRAVIS & Grandpa JONES) - Farm And Home Hour Theme / Lil' Liza Jane / As Long As I Live / Waiting For A Train / Marmaduke's Hornpipe / Making Believe / Lost Lost John From Bowling Green / Old Joe Clark / Eastbound Medley / Turkey Trod Rag / Fair And Tender Ladies / Are You From Dixie / We'll Understand It Better / President McKinley / Pretty Fair Maid / Going Cross The Sea / Honey Be My Honeybee / Hominy Grits / Liberty / Brown's Ferry Blues / Rose Time / Ballad Of The Bald / Headed End Of The Broom / Highways Are Happy Ways / Whispering Hope / Closing Theme | |||||
| 1984 | LP 12" CAPITOL 1550 0801 (F) |
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WALKIN' THE STRINGS - Walkin' The Strings / Little David Play On Your Harp / Saturday Night Shuffle / Thumbing The Bass / Cane Break Blues / Darby's Ram / Everly Rag / Rose Time / Old Aunt Dinah / My Old Kentucky Home / Pigmeat Stomp / Blue Smoke / Dry Bread / Louisville Clog / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Grren Bay Polka / Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel / Travis Trot / Cannon Ball Stomp / Fuller Blues / Blue Bell / Take My Hand, Precious Lord | |||||
| 1990 | CD RHINO 70993 (US) |
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THE BEST OF MERLE TRAVIS - Cincinnati Lou / No Vacancy / Divorce Me COD / Dark As A Dungeon / I Am A Pilgrim / So Round So Rirm So Fully Packed / Sweet Temptation / Steel Guitar Rag / Three Times Seven / Lawdy What A Gal / Fat Gal / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size / Re-Enlistment Blues / Sixteen Tons / When My Baby Double Talks To Me / Trouble Trouble / Kinfolks In Carolina / Cannonball Rag | |||||
| 04/1992 | CD ROUNDER CROU 0009 (US) |
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UNRELEASED RADIO TRANSCRIPTIONS 1944-1949 - That's All / You Tell Me Your Dream / Old Rattler / T For Texas / The Cat Came Back / Bye Bye Blues / Lawdy What A Gal / I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Blue Railroad Train / Bonus Track / Roll On Mississippi / Groundhog / Petticoat Fever / Rikki Tikki Tikki / Shiek Of Araby - Hominy Grits / Nobody / Travis Stomp / No Vacancy / The Cat Came Back / I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town / John Henry / Sweet Temptatio | |||||
| 06/1994 | CD BEAR FAMILY BCD-15636 (D) |
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FOLK SONGS OF THE HILLS - Nine Pound Hammer / That's All, John Bolin / Muskrat / Dark As A Dungeon / John Henry / Sixteen Tons / Possum Up A Simmon Tree / I Am A Pilgrim / Over By No 9 / Barbara Allen / Lost John / Black Gold / Harlan Country Boys / Payday Comes Too Slow / Browder Explosion / Bloody Brethitt Country / Here's To The Operator Boys / Miner's Wife / Courtship Of Second Cousin Claude / Miner's Strawberries / Paw Walked Behind Us With A Carbide Lamp / Preacher Lane / Dear Old Halifax | |||||
| 07/1994 | 5 CD BEAR FAMILY BCD-15637 (D) |
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GUITAR RAGS AND A TOO FAST PAST :
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| 01/1995 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES 12 (UK) |
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UNISSUED RADIO SHOWS - 1944-1948 - Nine Pound Hammer / Cannonball Rag / Pigment Strut / I'm Gonna Ride That Gospel Train / Our Little Home In The Country (Tex ANN, Merle TRAVIS) / Osage Stomp / Kansas City Blues / I'm S-A-V-E-D (Tex ANN, Merle TRAVIS) / When You And I Were Young, Maggie (Cliffie STONE, Merle TRAVIS) / Ida Sweet As Apple Cider - Sheik Of Araby / Porky's Boogie / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Ain't That A Cryin' Shame / Churchy Time (Eddie CLETRO, Merle TRAVIS) / Fuller Blues / Freight Train / Darktown Strutters' Ball / Go 'Long Mule / Sugar Gourd Full Of Whiskey (Sally FOSTER, Merle TRAVIS) / Dapper Dan / No Vacancy / How Long Has That Train Been Gone (Eddie KIRK, Merle TRAVIS) / Boogie Woogie Cowboy (Merle TRAVIS, Wesley TUTTLE) / Snitzelbob Song (Tennessee Ernie FORD, Merle TRAVIS) / Milk 'Em In The Morning Blues (Tennessee Ernie FORD, Merle TRAVIS) / When My Baby Double Talks To Me / Little David, Play On Your Harp / Hominy Grits - Bugle Call Rag | |||||
| 01/1995 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES 14 (UK) |
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COUNTRY HOEDOWN SHOWS & FILMS - Got A Boogie Woogie Feelin' / Kentucky Means Paradise / Midnight Special / Delta Dan (Louisiana Boogie Woogie Man) / Cincinnati Lou / You'd Better Be There / Fat Gal / That's All / I'll See You in My Dreams / Answer The Phone / I Am A Pilgrim / Talkin' Boogie / Bayou Baby / Knee Deep In Trouble / Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey / Why Did I Fall for Abner? / When The Bloom Is On The Sage / Silver Spurs / Old Chisholm Trail / Petticoat Fever / Lost John / That Ain't Nothin' But The Moon / Nine Pound Hammer / Dark As A Dungeon / Too Much Sugar For A Dime | |||||
| 1995 | CD ROUNDER 451 (US) |
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IN BOSTON 1959 - Nine Pound Hammer / Welcoming Remarks / Goodbye My Bluebelle / Dark As A Dungeon / John Henry / Reminiscences About From Here To Eternity / Re-Enlistment Blues / I'll See You In My Dreams / Rap Sixteen Tons Intro / Sixteen Tons / Saturday Night Shuffle / Remarks About Kids' Songs / Muskrat / That's All / Lost John / Comic Rap / Cannonball Rag / Memphis Blues / Remarks About / Hominy Grits / Li'l Liza Jane / I Am A Pilgrim | |||||
| 07/1995 | CD CMH CD-8009 (US) |
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GUITAR RETROSPECTIVE - White Heat / High Noon / Lonesome Road Blues / Bye Bye Blues / Cannonball Rag / La Marcha De Los Mexicanos / After You've Gone / Love Letters In The Sand / Mack The Knife / I'll See You In My Dreams / Back In The Saddle Again / Liza / Swanee / El Rancho Grande / World Is Waiting For The Sunrise / I Saw The Light / Dance Of The Goldenrod / If I Had You / On The Jericho Road / Guitar Rag | |||||
| 071998 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES 20 (UK) |
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TURN YOUR RADIO ON - MERLE TRAVIS 1944-1965 - Town Hall Party Intro - Old Joe Clark / Nine Pound Hammer / Down Yonder / The Blues / Rock-A-Bye Rag / Sugar Hill / Cincinnati Lou / House Of David Blues / Memphis Blues / Wildwood Flower / Midnight Special / Bugle Call Rag / Give Me Your Hand / Fireball Mail / Smoke On The Water / Fox Chase / Turn Your Radio On / Maple On The Hill / Tiger Rag / Mose Merle Rag / Old Guitar Blues (In A) / I'll See You In My Dreams / Sixteen Tons / Cannonball Rag / John Henry / Rock-A-Bye Rag / Under The Double Eagle / No Vacancy - So Firm So Round So Fully Packed - Cincinnati Lou / Nine Pound Hammer / I'll See You In My Dreams | |||||
| 04/2000 | CD RAZOR & TIE 82214 (US) |
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THE BEST OF MERLE TRAVIS - SWEET TEMPTATION - 1946-1953 - Cincinnati Lou / No Vacancy / Divorce Me C.O.D. / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Sixteen Tons / Steel Guitar Rag / Blue Yodel No. 1 (T For Texas) / Any Old Time / Three Times Seven / Kentucky Means Paradise / Sweet Temptation / Fat Gal / Dry Bread / Cannon Ball Rag / Lawdy, What A Gal / Guitar Rag / Deep South / Re-Enlistment Blues / Kinfolks In Carolina / I'll See You In My Dreams | |||||
| 06/2002 | CD ASV / LIVING ERA 5428 (UK) |
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SIXTEEN TONS - Sixteen Tons / No Vacancy / Cincinnati Lou / Nine Pound Hammer / What A Shame / Missouri / Dark As A Dungeon / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Sweet Temptation / Over By Number Nine / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Steel Guitar Rag / That's All / Sioux City Sue / Fat Gal / John Henry / Merle's Boogie Woogie / Blues Stay Away From Me / I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man / Muskrat / Crazy Boogie / Too Much Sugar For A Dime / I Am A Pilgrim / Lost John Boogie / Deep South / Start Even / Done Rovin' | |||||
| 09/2002 | CD VARESE 066370 (US) |
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THE VERY BEST - 16 Tons / Detour Jimmy Wakely, Wesley Tuttle, and Merle Travis / Texas Tornado [instr.] / Nobody / John Henry / I'll See You In My Dreams [instr.] / Hominy Grits / Guitar Rag / Gambler's Guitar / Bye Bye Blues [instr.] / Follow Through / Medley : No Vacancy - Smoke, Smoke, Smoke - I'll See You in My Dreams | |||||
| 03/2003 | 2 CD PROSPER PAIRS 123 (UK) |
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HOT PICKIN' :
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| 12/2003 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES 29 (UK) |
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BOOGIE WOOGIE COWBOY - Down South Blues / I'm Learning To Live Without You / Be Brave My Darling / You're Breaking This Poor Heart Of Mine / Boogie Woogie Cowboy / Cimarron / Born To Lose (Wesley TUTTLE) / A & E Hornpipe (Wesley TUTTLE) / I Want To Be Wanted (Wesley TUTTLE) / I'll Forgive You But I Can't Forget / When You And I Were Young, Maggie / This Ain't The Same Old Range / You're Gonna Pay / Nobody / If I Didn't Care / Jokes (Johnny BOND & Merle TRAVIS) / John Bolin / Johnson Rag / Petticoat Fever / I'm Ridin' The Rails / Weary Lonesome Blues / Catalog Cowboy Joe / Gettin' Some Sleep (Smiley BURNETTE) / Texas Home / There'll Be Some Changes Made / Fireball Mail (Johnny BOND) / I've Got The Weary Lonesome Blues (Johnny BOND) / John Henry / Cannonball Rag | |||||
| 01/2004 | CD CASTLE PULSE 668 (US) |
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FAMOUS COUNTRY MUSIC MAKERS - Sixteen Tons / Divorce Me C.O.D / Missouri / Dark As A Dungeon / Sweet Temptation / No Vacancy / Nine Pound Hammer / What A Shame / Over By Number Nine / So Round So Firm So Fully Packed / I Am A Pilgrim / Crazy Boogie / Steel Guitar Rag / Cincinnati Lou / John Henry / Fat Gal / Merle's Boogie Woogie / Blues Stay Away From Me / Start Even / Done Rovin | |||||
| 2005 | CD SUNDAZED SC 9010 (US) |
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STRICTLY GUITAR - Heart Of My Heart / Lazy River / Guitar Rag / Dance Of The Goldenrod / Cuddle Up A Little Closer / Cannon Ball Rag / Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me / I'll See You In My Dreams / Gotta Have My Baby Back / Way Down Yonder In New Orleans / Fishers Horn Pipe | |||||
| 03/2005 | CD SUNDAZED SC 9011 (US) |
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COUNTRY MUSIC'S TWO GUITAR GREATS - (Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS) - Corrine Corrina / Big Midnight Special / Bayou Baby / Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down / Guitar Rag / Blast Off / When It’s Time For The Whippoorwill To Sing / West Coast Blues / Mainstreet Breakdown / Picture On The Wall / Kentucky Waltz / Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar | |||||
| 07/2005 | CD COUNTRY STARS 55521 (US) |
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I AM A PILGRIM - Cincinnati Lou / No Vacancy / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Missouri / What A Shame / Nine Pound Hammer / Sixteen Tons / Dark As A Dungeon / That's All / John Henry / I Am A Pilgrim / Sweet Temptation / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Three Times Seven / Steel Guitar Rag / Lawdy, What A Gal / Fat Gal / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size / Merle's Boogie Woogie / When My Baby Double Talks To Me / Kentucky Means Paradise / Crazy Boogie / Guitar Rag / Ain't That A Cryin' Shame / Cannonball Rag | |||||
| 09/2005 | CD DIRECT SOURCE 52692 (US) |
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COUNTRY HIT PARADE - Sixteen Tons / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Divorce Me C.O.D. / No Vacancy / Dark As A Dungeon / Nine Pound Hammer / John Henry / Blues Stay Away From Me / T for Texas / Will The Circle Be Unbroken | |||||
| 11/2005 | LP 12" SUNDAZED SLP 5209 (US) |
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LIVE AT TOWN HALL PARTY 1958/1959 - Fat Gal / If You Can't Go Right, Don't Go Wrong / Bugle Call Rag / Mainstreet Breakdown / Nine Pound Hammer / Cannon Ball Rag / Won't You Ride In My Little Red Wagon / Ike Everly's Rag / Cincinnati Lou / Back Home In Indiana / House Of David Blues / Hominy Grits | |||||
| 06/2008 | 2 CD PERFORMANCE 38286 (US) |
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THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION :
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| 08/2009 | CD RAVEN 299 (AUS) |
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THE MERLE TRAVIS GUITAR / WALKIN' THE STRINGS... PLUS - Blue Smoke / Black Diamond Blues / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Saturday Night Shuffle / Bugle Call Rag / Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Kentucky Home / Walkin' The Strings / Memphis Blues / Shiek Of Araby / Blue Bell / Waltz You Saved For Me / Rockabye Rag / Walkin' The Strings / Little David Play On Your Harp / Saturday Night Shuffle / Thumbing The Bass / Cane Break Blues / Darby's Ram / Everly Rag / Rose Time / Old Aunt Dinah / My Old Kentucky Home / Pigmeat Stomp / Blue Smoke / Dry Bread / Louisville Clog / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Grren Bay Polka / Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel / Travis Trot / Cannon Ball Stomp / Fuller Blues / Blue Bell / Take My Hand, Precious Lord / Turn My Picture Upside Down / I'm Knee Deep In Trouble / A Too Fast Past / Louisiana Boogie / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed |
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