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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 : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Instrumental Country, Country-Boogie, Traditional Country, Country-Folk
DIVORCE ME
C.O.D. (1946)
SWEET TEMPTATION (1947) SIXTEEN TONS (1947) MERLE'S BOOGIE WOOGIE (1947) BLUE SMOKE (1949) |
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DISCOGRAPHY
78 t., Singles & EP
11/1943 | 78 t. KING 501 (US) | . |
Bob McCarthy - When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down / Two-Time Annie |
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07/1945 | 78 t. ATLAS RM 513 (US) | . |
That's All (Merle TRAVIS) / Hide Your Face (Red MURRELL) |
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12/1945 | 78 t; BEL-TONE E-0262 (US) | . |
So Long To The Red River Valley (The Westernaires with Cliffie Stonehead Band) / Hominy Grits (Tem MARTIN with Cliffie Stonehead & his Band) |
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04/1946 | 78 t; BEL-TONE 275 (US) | . |
Tin Ear Tanner & His Back Room Boys - Cincinnati Lou / I Used To Work In Chicago |
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06/1946 | 78 t. GLOBE 110 (US) | . |
I Used To Work In Chicago / I'm All That Trusting You |
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10/1946 | 78 t. KING 581 (US) | . | Hank PENNY & Merle TRAVIS - Texas In My Soul / Merle's Buck Dance | ||||
06/1946 | 78 t. CAPITOL 258 (US) | . | No Vacancy / Cincinnati Lou | ||||
09/1946 | 78 t. CAPITOL 290 (US) | . | Divorce Me C.O.D. / Missouri | ||||
11/1946 | 78 t. CAPITOL 330 (US) | . |
Oh Why Oh Why Did I Ever Leave Wyoming / When Rossiel Riccoola Do The Hoola Ma Boola |
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01/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 349 (US) | . | So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Sweet Temptation | ||||
03/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 384 (US) | . | Three Times Seven / Steel Guitar Rag | ||||
04/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 400 (US) | . |
Johnny Mercer with Merle Travis & His Coon Hunters - The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along / A Little Too Far |
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06/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL AMERICANA A40006 (US) | . | Lawdy, What A Gal / I'm Sick And Tired Of You | ||||
06/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 48000 (US) | . |
Nine Pound Hammer / John Henry |
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06/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 48001 (US) | . |
Sixteen Tons / Dark As A Dungeon |
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06/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 48002 (US) | . |
Over By Number Nine / That's All |
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06/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 48003 (US) | . | I Am A Pilgrim / Muskrat | ||||
06/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL 48004 (US) | . |
Sioux City Sue (Merle TRAVIS) / Fort Worth Jail (Tex RITTER) |
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06/1947 | 4 78 t. CAPITOL AMERICANA AD 50 (US) |
Folk Songs Of The Hills :
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10/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL AMERICANA A40026 (US) | . |
Fat Gal / Merle's Boogie Woogie |
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10/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL AMERICANA A40037 (US) | . | Merle TRAVIS & Wesley TUTTLE - Please Be Like Your Daddy / I Know It's Wrong | ||||
10/1947 | 78 t. CAPITOL AMERICANA A40050 (US) | . |
Follow Thru / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size |
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01/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40072 (US) | . |
The Devil To Pay / Info Please |
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03/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40100 (US) | . | When My Baby Double Talks To Me / Kentucky Means Paradise | ||||
05/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40115 (US) | . | Fool At Steering / Alimony Bound | ||||
06/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15124 (US) | . |
Nine Pound Hammer / I Am A Pilgrim |
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07/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15143 (US) | . |
I’m A Natural Born Gamblin’ Man / Crazy Boogie |
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09/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15212 (US) | . | I Leave My Honey Bee Alone / T For Texas | ||||
09/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15263 (US) | . |
Divorce Me C.O.D. / Steel Guitar Rag |
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09/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15264 (US) | . |
Cincinnati Lou / So 'round, So Firm, So Fully Packed |
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09/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15265 (US) | . | No Vacancy / Missouri | ||||
12/1948 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15317 (US) | . | What A Shame / Dapper Dan | ||||
03/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40143 (US) | . | Sioux City Sue (Merle TRAVIS) / Shame On You (Jack GUTHRIE) | ||||
03/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 15419 / 54-585 (US) | . |
Wabash Cannon Ball (Kay Starr & Merle TRAVIS) / How It Lies, How It Lies, How It Lies (Kay STARR) |
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06/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 57-40171 (US) | . |
That's All / Get Along Blues |
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08/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 57-40214 (US) | . |
Walking The Strings / Fuller Blues / Blue Smoke |
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10/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 57-40233 (US) | . | Merle TRAVIS & Wesley TUTTLE - God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds / It May Be Too Late | ||||
11/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 57-40254 (US) | . |
Merle Travis, Eddie Kirk, Tennessee Ernie with Cliffie Stone's Band - Blues Stay Away From Me / Philosophy |
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12/1949 | 78 t. CAPITOL 40272 (US) | . | Petitcoat Fever / Pickin' Up The Pieces | ||||
12/1949 | SP CAPITOL F40272 (US) | . | Petitcoat Fever / Pickin' Up The Pieces | ||||
02/1950 | SP CAPITOL 34-40143 (US) | . |
Sioux City Sue (Merle TRAVIS) / Fort Worth Jail (Tex RITTER) |
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04/1950 | 78 t. CAPITOL 965 (US) | . | I Got A Mean Old Woman / Start Even | ||||
04/1950 | SP CAPITOL F965 (US) | . |
I Got A Mean Old Woman / Start Even |
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06/1950 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1029 (US) | . | Guitar Rag / Cane Bottom Chair | ||||
06/1950 | SP CAPITOL F1029 (US) | . | Guitar Rag / Cane Bottom Chair | ||||
07/1950 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1146 (US) | . | Merle Travis & Judy Hayden - Too Much Sugar For A Dime / Spoonin' Moon | ||||
07/1950 | SP CAPITOL F1146 (US) | . |
Merle Travis & Judy Hayden - Too Much Sugar For A Dime / Spoonin' Moon |
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10/1950 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1241 (US) | . | Trouble Trouble / El Reno | ||||
10/1950 | SP CAPITOL F1241 (US) | . | Trouble Trouble / El Reno | ||||
12/1950 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1337 (US) | . | Dry Bread / Wont'cha Be My Baby / Dry Bread | ||||
12/1950 | SP CAPITOL F1337 (US) | . | Dry Bread / Wont'cha Be My Baby / Dry Bread | ||||
03/1951 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1478 (US) | . | Before I'm Through / Too Bad About You | ||||
03/1951 | SP CAPITOL F1478 (US) | . |
Before I'm Through / Too Bad About You |
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05/1951 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1519 (US) | . | Deep South / Boogie In Minor | ||||
05/1951 | SP CAPITOL F1519 (US) | . | Deep South / Boogie In Minor | ||||
06/1951 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1660 (US) | . | Wabash Cannon Ball (Kay Starr & Merle TRAVIS) / So Tired (Kay Starr) | ||||
06/1951 | SP CAPITOL F1660 (US) | . | Wabash Cannon Ball (Kay Starr & Merle TRAVIS) / So Tired (Kay Starr) | ||||
07/1951 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1737 (US) | . | Lost John Boogie / Let's Settle Down | ||||
07/1951 | SP CAPITOL F1737 (US) | . | Lost John Boogie / Let's Settle Down | ||||
09/1951 | 78 t. CAPITOL 1800 (US) | . | Done Rovin' / Faithful Fool | ||||
09/1951 | SP CAPITOL F1800 (US) | . | Done Rovin' / Faithful Fool | ||||
03/1952 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2014 (US) | . | Kinfolks In Carolina / A Rainy Day Feeling | ||||
03/1952 | SP CAPITOL F2014 (US) | . | Kinfolks In Carolina / A Rainy Day Feeling | ||||
06/1952 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2136 (US) | . | A Too Fast Past / Ain't That A Cryin' Shame? | ||||
06/1952 | SP CAPITOL F2136 (US) | . | A Too Fast Past / Ain't That A Cryin' Shame? | ||||
07/1952 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2175 (US) | . | Merle's Boogie Woogie / Steel Guitar Rag | ||||
07/1952 | SP CAPITOL F2175 (US) | . | Merle's Boogie Woogie / Steel Guitar Rag | ||||
07/1952 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2176 (US) | . | I Am A Pilgrim / Nine Pound Hammer | ||||
07/1952 | SP CAPITOL F2176 (US) | . | I Am A Pilgrim / Nine Pound Hammer | ||||
10/1952 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2245 (US) | . | I'll See You In My Dreams / Cannonball Rag | ||||
10/1952 | SP CAPITOL F2245 (US) | . |
I'll See You In My Dreams / Cannonball Rag |
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01/1953 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2336 (US) | . | Knee Deep In Trouble / Bayou Baby (A Cajun Lullaby) | ||||
01/1953 | SP CAPITOL F2336 (US) | . |
Knee Deep In Trouble / Bayou Baby (A Cajun Lullaby) |
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04/1953 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2453 (US) | . | I'll Have Myself A Ball / Green Cheese | ||||
04/1953 | SP CAPITOL F2453 (US) | . | I'll Have Myself A Ball / Green Cheese | ||||
07/1953 | SP CAPITOL F2544 (US) | . | Shut Up And Drink Your Beer / Gambler's Guitar | ||||
08/1953 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2553 (US) | . | Re-Enlistment Blues / Dance Of The Golden Rod | ||||
08/1953 | SP CAPITOL F2563 (US) | . | Re-Enlistment Blues / Dance Of The Golden Rod | ||||
03/1954 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2757 (US) | . | Jolie Fille (Pretty Girl) / I Can't Afford The Coffee (I'm Tired Of Drinkin' Weak Tea Blues) | ||||
03/1954 | SP CAPITOL F2757 (US) | . |
Jolie Fille (Pretty Girl) / I Can't Afford The Coffee (I'm Tired Of Drinkin' Weak Tea Blues) |
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08/1957 | 78 t. CAPITOL 2902 (US) | . | Louisiana Boogie / Love Must Be Ketchin' | ||||
08/1954 | SP CAPITOL F2902 (US) | . | Louisiana Boogie / Love Must Be Ketchin' | ||||
04/1955 | 78 t. CAPITOL 3106 (US) | . | Breakin' In Another Heart (Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys) / Wildwood Flower (Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys with Merle TRAVIS) | ||||
04/1955 | SP CAPITOL F3106 (US) | . | Breakin' In Another Heart (Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys) / Wildwood Flower (Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys with Merle TRAVIS) | ||||
08/1955 | SP CAPITOL F3194 (US) | . | Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine / Beer Barrel Polka | ||||
10/1955 | SP CAPITOL F3247 (US) | . |
Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills - If You Want It, I've Got It / Hunky-Dory |
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02/1956 | SP CAPITOL F3362 (US) | . | Turn My Picture Upside Down / Lazy River | ||||
03/1956 | EP CAPITOL EAP 1-650 (US) |
The Merle Travis Guitar - part 1 - Blue Smoke / Black Diamond Blues / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Rockabye Rag |
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03/1956 | EP CAPITOL EAP 2-650 (US) | The Merle Travis Guitar - part 2 - On A Bicycle Built For Two / Saturday Night Shuffle / The Sheik Of Araby / Blue Bell | |||||
03/1956 | EP CAPITOL EAP 3-650 (US) | The Merle Travis Guitar - part 3 - Bugle Call Rag / Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home / Walkin' The Strings / The Memphis Blues | |||||
06/1956 | SP CAPITOL F3440 (US) | . |
Weeping Willow (Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys with Merle Travis) / You Can Give Me Back My Heart (Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys) |
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1957 | EP CAPITOL EAP-1-891 (US) | BACK HOME - Nine Pound Hammer / Dark As A Dungeon / Muskrat / Over By Number NIne | |||||
1950 | EP CAPITOL 7EP-93 (JAP) |
The Merle Travis Guitar - Bugle call rag / The memphis blues / Rockabye rag / On a bicycle built for two |
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08/1963 | EP CAPITOL EAP4-1391 (UK) |
Walkin' The Strings - Walkin' The Strings / Saturday Night Shuffle / Thumbing The Bass / Blue Smoke / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Green Bay Polka |
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05/1966 | SP CAPITOL 5657 (US) | . | John Henry, Jr. / That Same Ol' Natural Urge | ||||
11/1966 | SP CAPITOL 5764 (US) | . | Moon Over The Motel / That Tennessee Beat | ||||
04/1967 | SP CAPITOL 5876 (US) | . | Wildwood Flower / Farther On Down The Road | ||||
07/1967 | SP CAPITOL 5965 (US) | . | Country Joe / You're A Little Bit cuter | ||||
09/1969 | SP CAPITOL 2624 (US) | . |
The Super Highway / A World Full Of Roses |
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1974 | EP RCA VICTOR DJEO 0278 (US) (promo) | Chet Atkins & Merle Travis - The Atkins And Travis Traveling Show - Is Anything Better Than This / Boogie For Cecil / Mutual Admiration / Down South Blues | |||||
1974 | EP ROLLIN' ROCK 45-031 (US) |
Merle Travis Picks - Ray Campi Sings - Merle's Boogie Woogie / Sweet Temptation / Guitar Rag / Missouri |
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10/1974 | SP RCA VICTOR PB 37003 (F) | Merle Travis & Chet Atkins - Boogie For Cecil - Boogie For Cecil / Who's Sorry Now | |||||
03/1980 | SP CMH CMH-1525 (US) | . |
Moon Over The Motel / It's Kinda Wonderful |
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05/1981 | SP CMH CMH-1538 (US) | . |
Hominy Grits / The Westphalia Waltz |
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03/1956 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-650 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1956 | LP 10" CAPITOL H-650 (AUS) | THE MERLE TRAVIS GUITAR - 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 | ||||||
10/1957 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-891 (US) | 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 | ||||||
05/1960 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-1391 (US) | 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 | ||||||
01/1962 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-1664 (mono) / ST-1664 (stereo) (US) | 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 | ||||||
09/1963 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-1956 (mono) / ST-1956 (stereo) (US) | 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 | ||||||
05/1964 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-2102 (mono) / ST-2102 (stereo) (US) | COUNTRY MUSIC'S TWO GUITAR GEATS - Merle TRAVIS & 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 | ||||||
1966 | LP 12" HILLTOP JM-6040 (mono) / JS-6040 (stereo) (US) | 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 | ||||||
1966 | LP 12" Stampede JS-6040 (CAN) | 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 | ||||||
01/1967 | LP 12" CAPITOL D-2662 (mono) / DT-2662 (stereo) (US) | 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" Spin-O-Rama M 176 (mono) / S-176 (stereo) (US) |
Merle Travis / Also Starring The Renfro Valley Pioneers - Merle Travis : Petticoat Fever / Sweet Temptation / I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man / Spoonin' Moon / Too Much Sugar For A Dime / Renfro Valley Pioneers : Big Rock Candy Mountain / Blue Tail Fly / Bad Brahma Bull / Old Chisholm Trail / John Hardy |
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1967 | LP 12" Regal SREG 1055 (UK) | 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 | ||||||
1967 | LP 12" MUSIC FOR PLEASURE MFP 1147 (UK) |
Down Home With Merle Travis - So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Cincinatti Lou / Sweet Temptation / Lawdy, What A Gal / Three Times Seven / No Vacancy / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Fat Girl / Kentucky Means Paradise / When My Baby Double Talks To Me / I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size / Kinfolks In Carolina |
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06/1968 | LP 12" CAPITOL T-2938 (mono) / ST-2938 (stereo) (US) | 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 | ||||||
1968 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST21010 (US) | The Best Of... Merle Travis - 21 Years A Country Singer - Nine Pound Hammer / Muskrat / Everly Rag / Possum Up A Simmon Tree / I Am A Pilgrim / Cannonball Stomp / John Henry / Dark As A Dungeom / Cane Break Blues / Bloody Brethitt County / Travis Trot / Paw Walked Behind Us With A Carbide Lamp / Pigmeat Stomp / Sixteen Tons | ||||||
05/1969 | LP 12" CAPITOL ST-248 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1973 | LP 12" CAPITOL ECR-8179 (JAP) |
Merle Travis - Nine Pound Hammer / Sixteen Tons / Cincinnati Lou / Blue Smoke / Divorce Me C.O.D. / John Henry / I Am A Pilgrim / Dark As A Dungeon / Kentucky Means Paradise / Steel Guitar Rag / Kinfolks In Carolina / Barbara Allen / Take My Hand, Precious Lord |
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03/1974 | LP 12" RCA VICTOR APL1-0479 (US) | THE ATKINS - 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 | ||||||
1974 | LP 12" RCA VICTOR APL1 0479 (F) | THE ATKINS - 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 SHLP-523 (US) | JIMMY WAKELY PRESENTS MERLE TRAVIS - THE GUITAR PLAYER - SINGER AND COMPOSER - - 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 | ||||||
08/1979 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH-9017 (US) | COUNTRY GUITAR GIANTS - Merle TRAVIS &
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11/1979 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH-9018 (US) | THE MERLE TRAVIS STORY :
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197? | LP 12" CAPITOL T-891 (US) | THE GREAT FOLK SONGS - 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 | ||||||
05/1980 | LP 12" CMH CMH-6245 (US) | 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 | ||||||
10/1980 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH-9024 (US) | GUITAR STANDARDS :
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1980 | LP 12" CAPITOL ECS 50059 (JAP) |
Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons / Sweet Temptation / John Bolin / Dark As A Dungeon / John Henry / Barbara Allen / Re-Enlistment Blues / Muskrat / Lost John / Nine Pound Hammer / Cincinnati Lou / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Louisiana Boogie / I Am A Pilgrim |
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08/1981 | LP 12" CMH CMH-6255 (US) | 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 | ||||||
04/1982 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH 9028 (US) |
The Clayton McMichen Story
- Merle Travis,
Mac
Wiseman,
Joe MAPHIS,
Jackson D. Kane, and Fiddlin’
Red Herron :
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1982 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH-9030 (US) |
The Joe MAPHIS Flat-Picking Spectacular! WITH SPECIAL GUESTs MERLE TRAVIS - ZEN CROOK - ARTHUR SMITH :
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1982 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH-9032 (US) |
Merle And Grandpa's Farm And Home Hour - Merle TRAVIS & Grandpa JONES :
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1982 | LP 12" CMH CMH-4901 (US) | COUNTRY GUITAR THUNDER - Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS - Joe MAPHIS : Ballad Of Thunder Road - Theme From Bonanza / Nashville Jubilee / Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS : Lonesome Road Blues / Black Mountain Rag / Freight Train / Free Little Bird / Joe MAPHIS : Liberty / Little Rock Getaway / Flying Fingers / Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS : Mose Rager Blues / Wildwood Flower / Alabama Jubilee / John Henry / Li'l Liza Jane / Joe MAPHIS : Irish Washerwoman / Merle TRAVIS & Joe MAPHIS : Eight More Miles To Louisville | ||||||
1984 | LP 12" CAPITOL 1550 0801 (F) | 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 | ||||||
05/1985 | 2 LP 12" CMH CMH-9032 (US) |
Merle And Grandpa's Farm And Home Hour - Merle TRAVIS & Grandpa JONES :
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06/1986 | LP 12" CMH CMH-6262.(US) | ROUGH, ROWDY AND BLUE - Cocaine Blues / Cairo Blues / Jelly Roll Blues / Merry Christmas Pretty Baby / Key To The Highway / (I'm Gonna Move Way Out) To The Outskirts Of Town / Stack O'Lee / Whiskey / Step It Up And Go / Dry Bread / Honey, Take A Whiff On Me / Too Mean To Cry | ||||||
10/1990 | CD RHINO R2-70993 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1990 | CD Country Routes RFD 9001 (UK) |
Merle Travis - The Radio Shows 1945-1946 - Nine Pound Hammer / Cannonball Rag / Pigmeat Strut / I’m Gonna Ride That Gospel Train / Our Little Home In The Country / Osage Stomp / Kansas City Blues / I’m S-A-V-E-D / When You And I Were Young Maggie / Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider / Porky’s Boogie / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Ain’t That A Cryin’ Shame / Churchy Time / Fuller / Freight Train Blues / Darktown Strutters’ Ball / Go ’Long Mule / Sugar Gourd Full Of Whiskey / Dapper Dan |
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04/1992 | CD ROUNDER RFD CD 09 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1993 | CD CAPITOL CDP 0777-7-80676-2 (US) |
Capitol Country Music Classics - Cincinnati Lou / No Vacancy / Divorce Me C.O.D. / Missouri / So Round So Firm So Fully Packed / Sweet Temptation / Steel Guitar Rag / Three Times Seven / Sixteen Tons / Nine Pound Hammer / I Am A Pilgrim / Dark As A Dungeon / John Henry / Fat Gal / Merle's Boogie Woogie / Crazy Boogie / I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man / I'm Sick And Tired Of You Little Darlin' / Sioux City Sue / What A Shame / Kinfolks In Carolina (Merle Travis with Joe MAPHIS) / Reenlistment Blues / Wildwood Flower (Merle Travis with Hank Thompson) / Blues Stay Away From Me / Kentucky Means Paradise / John Henry Jr / Guitar Rag / Way Down Yonder In New Orleans |
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1993 | CD Country STARS CTS 55411 (EUR) |
The Legend Of Merle Travis - John Henry / Start Even / Smoke, Smoke, Some (That Cigarette) / Lazy River / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed / Sweet Tempation / Divorce Me C.O.D. / I Am A Pilgrim / Cincinnati Lou / Dance Of 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 Me / Dark As A Dungeon / I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man / Bayou Baby / I'll See You In My Dreams / That's All |
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06/1994 | CD BEAR FAMILY BCD-15636 (GER) | 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 (GER) | GUITAR RAGS AND A TOO FAST PAST :
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01/1995 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES RFDCD-12 (UK) | 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 RFDCD-14 (UK) | 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 | ||||||
07/1995 | CD CMH CD-8009 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1995 | CD ROUNDER 82161-0451-2 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1996 | LP 12" CAPITOL 7243-8-35809-2-7 (US) | 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 | ||||||
1996 | LP 12" CAPITOL 7243-8-35810-2-3 (US) |
Folk Songs Of The Hills - Nine Pound Hammer / John Henry / Sixteen Tons / Dark As A Dungeon / That's All / Over By Number Nine / I Am A Pilgrim / Muskrat / This World Is Not My Home / John Bolin / Possum Up A Simmon Tree / Barbara Allen / Lost John |
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1997 | CD KRB 5151-2 (US) |
The Guitar Player - Texas Tornado / Bye Bye Blues / Hominy Grits / Gambler's Guitar / John Henry / Follow Through / I'll See You In My Dreams / Guitar Rag / 16 Tons / Nobody |
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071998 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES RFD CD 20 (UK) | 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 RE-8-2214 (US) | 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 CDAJA 5428 (UK) | 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 302 066370-2 (US) | THE VERY BEST OF MERLE TRAVIS - 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 PVCD 123 (UK) | HOT PICKIN' :
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2003 | CD CMH CD-8445 (US) | 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 | ||||||
2003 | 2 CD Proper PVCD123 (UK) |
Hot Pickin' :
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2003 | CD Black Cat BCCD 0064 (CZ) |
Nine Pound Hammer - Nine Pound Hammer / So Round So Firm So Fully Packed / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / No Vacancy / Sixteen Tons / Dark As A Dungeon / Divorce Me C.O.D. / You'll Be Lonesome Too / Blues Stay Away From Me / T For Texas / Too Much Sugar For A Dime / If We Never Meet Again / I'll See You In My Dreams / John Henry / Miskrat |
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12/2003 | CD COUNTRY ROUTES RFD CD 29 (UK) | BOOGIE WOOGIE COWBOY - 1944-1956 - RED RIVER TRIO : The Down South Blues / I'm Learning To Live Without You / Be Brave My Darling / You're Breaking This Poor Heart Of Mine / Jimmie DEAN : Boogie Woogie Cowboy / Cimarron / Wesley TUTTLE & His COON HUNTERS : Born To Lose / A & E Hornpipe / I Want To Be Wanted / RED RIVER TRIO : 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 / Merle TRAVIS : Nobody / CLIFFIE STONE’S WESTERN STARS : If I Didn't Care / Merle TRAVIS with Johnny BOND : Jokes / Merle TRAVIS with Johnny WAKELY & Slim DUNCAN : John Bolin / Merle TRAVIS : Johnson Rag / Petticoat Fever / Wes TUTTLE & His COON HUNTERS : I'm Ridin' The Rails / Weary Lonesome Blues / Judy CLARK & The RHYTHM COWGIRLS : Catalog Cowboy Joe / Smiley BURNETTE : Gettin' Some Sleep / TRAVIS TRIO : Texas Home / Merle TRAVIS : There'll Be Some Changes Made / Johnny BOND : Fireball Mail / I've Got The Weary Lonesome Blues / Merle TRAVIS : John Henry / Cannon Ball Rag | ||||||
01/2004 | CD CASTLE PULSE CD PLS 668 (US) | 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) | 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) | 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 CST 55521 (NL) | 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 AD 52692 (US) | 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) | 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 | ||||||
03/2006 | CD Ace CDCHD 1098 (UK) |
Steppin' Out Kind - Grandpa Jones Featuring Merle TRAVIS - It's Raining Here This Morning / I'll Be Around If You Need Me / Grandpa's Boogie / Heart Stealin' Mama / Eight More Miles To Louisville / Alimony Trouble / Five String Banjo Boogie / Ridin' On That Train / Darby's Ram / Take It On Out The Door / The Feudin' Boogie / Mule Train / Move It On Over / What'll I Do With The Baby-O / Steppin' Out Kind / Don't Sweet Talk Me / Send In Your Name And Address / That Depot In The Sky / Old Rattler / You'll Make Our Shack A Mansion / Get Back On The Glory Road / There's A Grave In The Wave Of The Ocean / Maybe You Will Miss Me When I'm Gone / There's A Hole In The Ground / When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down (Merle TRAVIS) / Two-Time Annie (Merle TRAVIS) |
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06/2008 | 2 CD PERFORMANCE 38286 (US) | THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION :
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09/2008 | CD RAVEN RVCD-286 (AUS) | THE ATKINS-TRAVIS TRAVELING SHOW / REFLECTIONS - The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show (Chet ATKINS & Merle TRAVIS) : Down South Blues / Mutual Admiration / Muskrat Ramble / If I Had You / Cannonball Rag / Boogie For Cecil / Is Anything Better Than This / Dance Of The Golden Rod / Who's Sorry Now / Nine Pound Hammer / I'll See You In My Dreams - Reflections (Chet ATKINS & Doc WATSON) : Dill Pickle Rag / Me And Chet Made A Record / Flatt Did It / Medley: Tennessee Rag - Beaumont Rag / Medley: Texas Gales - Old Joe Clark / You're Gonna Be Sorry / Goodnight Waltz / Don't Monkey 'round My Widder / Medley: Black And White - Ragtime Annie / On My Way To Canaan's Land | ||||||
08/2009 | CD RAVEN RVCD-299 (AUS) | THE MERLE TRAVIS GUITAR / WALKIN' THE STRINGS... PLUS - 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 / 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 / Bonus Tracks : Turn My Picture Upside Down / I'm Knee Deep In Trouble / A Too Fast Past / Louisiana Boogie / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed | ||||||
2009 | CD BACM CD D 253 (UK) |
Dapper Dan - Alimony Bound / A Fool At The Steering Wheel / Get Along Blues / Information Please / Devil To Pay / Leave My Honey Bee Alone / Jolie Fille / Walking The Strings (instr.) / I Can't Afford The Coffee / Follow Through / I'm Picking Up The Pieces Of My Heart / Gambler's Guitar / Shut Up And Drink Your Beer / I'll Have Myself A Ball / Green Cheese / Hunky Dory / If You Want It I've Got It / Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old Kentucky Home (inst.) / Turn My Picture Upside Down / Lazy River (instr.) / Dapper Dan / Memphis Blues (instr.) / Petticoat Fever / Blue Smoke (instr.) |
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2009 | CD RIGHTEOUS PSALM 23:2 (UK) |
The Merle Travis Guitar - ORIGINAL SIDE ONE : Blue Smoke / Black Diamond Blues / On A Bicycle Built For Two / Saturday Night Shuffle / Bugle Call Rag / Tuck Me Up In My Old 'Tucky Home / ORIGINAL SIDE TWO : Walkin' The Strings / The Memphis Blues / The Sheik Of Araby / Blue Bell / The Waltz You Saved For Me / Rockabye Rag / ORIGINAL 78 RECORDINGS : Sweet Temptation / No Vacancy / Done Rovin' / Nine Pound Hammer / Sixteen Tons / Blues, Stay Away From Me / Dark As A Dungeon / I Am A Pilgrim |
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2009 | CD BACM CD D 286 (UK) |
Wild Goose - MERLE TRAVIS & TEX ANN - Mus'rat / I'd Like To Go Back / Nickelty Knackelty Now / And They Called It Dixieland / Tomorrow (I'll Be In My Dixieland Home Again) / Lolly To Dum Dey / Sourwood Mountain / The Wise Old Owl / Shady Brook Lane / The Life Of The Party / Wild Goose / Dear Little Wifey Back Home / The Dust On Mother's Old Bible / The Courtin' Song / Grandad's Cuspidor / Heaven Bound Train / Why'd I Fall For Abner / Dream Train Engineer / Baby Don't You Cry No More / The Dutchman's Wife / Someone To Call Me Honey / Go Where I Send Thee / Paper Of Pins / Peg Leg Jack / My Worst Worry / God Put A Rainbow In The Cloud / This World Is Such A Lonely Place / Did You Ever Go |
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03/2010 | 2 CD Primo 6104 (EUR) |
HOT PICKIN' :
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2010 | 4 CD The Intense Media / DOCUMENT 233126 (GER) |
The Guitar Picker :
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05/2016 | 4 CD Real Gone RGMCD219 (UK) |
Three Classic Albums Plus Singles 1949-1956 :
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