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See also: Blackbird, Travis

Merle Robert Travis (November 29th, 1917 - October 20th, 1983) is a famous American guitarist , in Rosewood (Kentucky). It composed of many pieces of Picking.

Biography

Merle Travis was born on November 29th, 1917 in a working-class family from Kentucky; his/her father and his two brothers worked in a mine. Child, it learns the rudiments from the music on the banjo of his father and the mandoline of his mother, and initiates himself with the guitar at twelve years the not very early age.

But it had exceptional professors (this mine field of Kentucky produced several guitarists whose influence was to be determining on the future of Country Music and consequently of Rockabilly). Indeed, a black musician of the name of Arnold Schultz, true genius with the dires of his contemporaries (fiddler and guitarist virtuoso) taught his " picking" in a certain Kennedy Jones who transmitted it to the white musician Mose Rager, itself professor de Ike Everly and of Travis Blackbird!

In 1977, it is introduced with the Country Music Hall off Famed.

During its life, it composed and played of the picking, animated a radio, even held a role in several films. Credit of 1936 until its death, Merle Travis is " today; réincarné" by his/her son, Thom Bresh.

This famous guitarist died on October 20th, 1983, at the 66 years age, of an heart attack.

Works

  • Any Old Time
  • Blue Yodel N1
  • CanonBall Rag
  • Cincinnati Lou
  • Deep South
  • Divorce Me COD
  • Drybread
  • Fatgal
  • Guitar Rag
  • It See You In My Dreams
  • kentuck Means Paradise
  • Kinfolks In Carolina
  • Lawdy What has Gall
  • No Vacancy
  • ReEnlistment Blues
  • Sixteen Tons
  • So Round So Firm So Fully Packed
  • Steel Guitar Rag
  • Sweet Temptation
  • Three Times Seven
  • Cannonball rag
  • Medley
  • BayouBabyn
  • Cincinnati Lou
  • Dance Of The Golden rod
  • Dark As has Dungeon
  • Divorce Me COD
  • fatgaln
  • Good bye My Bluebell
  • I Am has Pilgrimk
  • I Like My Chicken Fry in Size
  • I' L See You In My Dreams
  • I' m has Natural Born Gamblin Man
  • John Henry
  • Kentucky Means Paradise
  • Lazy River
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • Re-Enlistment Blues
  • Sixteen Tons
  • Smoke Smoke Smoke (ThatCigarette)
  • So Round So Firm So Fully Packed
  • Start Even
  • Steel GuitarRag
  • Barbara Allen
  • Black Gold
  • Bloody Bret hitt County
  • Dark As In Dungeon
  • Dear Old Halifax
  • Heres othe Operator Boys
  • I' amndt has Pilgrim
  • John Bolin
  • John Henry
  • lost John
  • Miners Strawberries
  • Muskrat
  • Nine Pound Hammer
  • Over by Number Nine
  • Paw Walked Behind Us With has Carbide Lamp
  • Payday Comes Too Slow
  • Possom Up has Simon Tree
  • Preacher Lane
  • Sixteen Tons
  • That' S all
  • The Browder Explosion
  • The Court ship off Second Cousin Claude
  • The Harlan CountyBoys
  • The Miners Wife

External bonds

  • guitar pickers association
  • its biography

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