Publisher : Vestapol
The Songs And Guitar Of Merle Travis: Sixteen Tons
(Rare Performances 1946-1981 Volume Two) DVD
Running time: 60 minutes
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Merle Travis was the fountain-head of a blues/jazz tinged country guitar fingerstyle since dubbed "Travis picking".
Its impact has permeated not only country but folk and 'roots rock' guitar idioms.
Travis's seminal role in American guitar styles overshadows the fact that he was also a formidable talent as songwriter and performer.

The many facets of his career are all present in this second offering of rare footage spanning his West Coast post-war prime to his last days as a rediscovered legend.

Songs:

• Silver Spurs
• Texas Home
• Why Did I Fall for Abner
• Old Chisholm Trail
• Catalog Cowboy
• Night Train to Memphis
• Lost John
• Nine Pound Hammer
• John Henry
• Wildwood Flower
• When My Baby Double Talks to Me
• Sixteen Tons
• Cannonball Rag
• Dark as a DungeonRockabye Rag
• That's All
• Who's Sorry Now
• Way Down Yonder in New Orleans
• Backwater Blues
  
  

• Rare Performance 1946-1981 DVD - 40%
• Sixteen Tons - Rare Performances 1946-1981 DVD - 40%
• Legends of Country Guitar DVD - 40%