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	Merle Travis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Merle Travis (November 29, 1917 - October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician.
		Merle Travis was raised in Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, the same coal mining county mentioned in the John Prine song "Paradise." Merle became interested in the guitar early in life, and he originally played one made by his brother.
		Travis enjoyed a brief revival in the late 1970s with some excellent recordings for CMH Records which finally showcased the guitar work he was renowned for, including Western Swing, re-recordings of his hits, and acoustic playing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Merle_Travis (818 words)

	VH1.com : Merle Travis : Biography
		Merle Travis was virtually without peer as a guitarist and songwriter.
		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 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.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/travis_merle/bio.jhtml (1101 words)

	Re: Merle Travis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Travis was big news long before this in Kentucky and of course Nashville and he had a dramatic impact on the playing of Chet Atkins teaching him his style.
		Travis also had a hand in the development of California 'Country' and Western music which would be later known as the Bakersfield Sound, which in reality is a mixture of Western Swing, Rockabilly, Hillbilly (from Nashville).
		Travis did play on a huge amount of session recordings in CA during the 40's and 50's, many he did uncredited and often went unpaid, as he just did it for a favor or for fun.
	www.texasplayboys.net /_disc3/0000006c.htm (495 words)

	Merle Travis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		Merle Travis remembered As originally printed in Now Dig This.
		Delirious: A Cat-girl Merle Hate Shrine Informative shrine about the negative aspects of Merle with edited pictures, flamers posts, and a "10 things I hate" list.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Merle_Travis.html (236 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation 1946-1953 [Import] [Best of] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Travis is best remembered today for the distinctive finger-picking-guitar style that often bears his name: "Travis picking," learned initially from the home folks in Kentucky, allows players to accompany their lead lines (picked with the index finger) with their own bass support (provided by the thumb).
		Travis had a hand in writing 15 of the 20 tracks here (exceptions include two Jimmie Rodgers covers, the traditional blues "Dry Bread," and a guitar showcase on the standard "I'll See You in My Dreams"), and most of the originals conform to this jovial formula, often featuring trumpet and accordion.
		Merle, who was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977, passed away at age 65 on October 20, 1983.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004SBUY (1123 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Merle Travis joined the great postwar migration west, but it wasn't the farms and factories of California that drew him cross-country.
		Travis mastered that market with the kind of songs found on this 20-track collection, but he was far more than the temporary star of a migratory fan base.
		Merle Travis, who was already an accomplished stage and radio performer before he headed west, was a legend in the making.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-august00/reviews/review_merle_travis.html (389 words)

	MERLE TRAVIS REMEMBERED (part three)
		I made contact with Merle's daughter, Merline, and she gave me Merle's new address and phone number and I got in touch with him.
		Merle Travis remained in southern California for several more years and made some great albums on Martin Hearle's CMH label.
		Merle Travis was a composer, singer and entertainer-musician beyond comparison, but most importantly he was a simple guy with a heart twice as big as Kentucky.
	www.electricearl.com /campi-19.html (1055 words)

	Merle Travis - Mel Bay Profile
		Merle Travis was one of the greatest and most influential guitarists the world has ever known and is a very important figure in the history of American music.
		Travis was a prolific songwriter and his songs are still being recorded by many of today's young artists and brightest stars.
		Merle was a pioneer in the truest sense of the word.
	www.melbay.com /authors.asp?author=1641 (670 words)

	MERLE TRAVIS - GUITAR LEGEND (Guitar News Weekly #77, February 14, 2000 - (c) GuitarSite.com)
		Merle Travis could work as much as he wanted, as long as he lived and was playing music.
		Though Merle Travis made some big bucks from the sales of his recordings, his bread and butter was his in person appearances.
		Merle Travis was booking out of Nashville in the Early 70s when I met him at the Black Poodle Night Club in Printer's Alley, in Downtown Nashville.
	www.guitarsite.com /newsletters/000214/11.shtml (1359 words)

	Merle Travis Rare Performances: Vestapol DVD 13012dvd
		"Merle Travis could write you a hit song and sing it; he could draw you a cartoon; he could play you a great guitar solo; or he could fix your watch.
		Merle Travis (1917-1983) was the fountainhead 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.
		A 36 page booklet is included which presents an interview and biographical essay, as well as many rare photographs of Merle Travis.
	www.guitarvideos.com /dvd/13012dvd.htm (242 words)

	CD Review: Merle Travis - Folk Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kentucky's Merle Travis was a great country swing fingerpicker, a crafty singer (who could yodel!) and a songwriter with a crackling facility for the rhythm and rhyme of words.
		The best track here is also Travis' best known song, "16 Tons," with an explanatory spoken section by Merle - whose father had left the farm to work in a coal mine.
		Travis' signature instrumental "Cannonball Rag" is here, with the equally impressive songs "Guitar Rag" and "Steel Guitar Rag," thoroughly stylish and dexterous country swing music.
	www.balladtree.com /reviews/travism_ac.htm (285 words)

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		Whenever he could, Merle would get the banjo and try to imitate exactly what his father had played, and when he was still a young boy he had taught himself to play fairly well.
		Merle Travis died in Oklahoma on October 20th 1983 at the age of 65.
		His ashes are buried at the Merle Travis monument in the Muhlenberg County community of Ebenezer.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/3199/travis.html (593 words)

	MERLE TRAVIS REMEMBERED (part one)
		In August of 1952, the Merle Travis band was on a tour of the southwest and came to Dessau Hall in Austin, Texas.
		Merle was sitting on a chair with a small screwdriver repairing his guitar cord.
		The dual guitar solos of Merle Travis and Joe Maphis were very much like the ones they recorded together on the CMH albums in the late 1970s.
	www.electricearl.com /campi-17.html (849 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Merle Travis had an unequaled blend of talents as an innovative guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, guitar designer, and author.
		Merle Robert Travis, son of local farmer Rob Travis and his wife, Etta, grew up in the heart of western Kentucky coal country.
		Travis had recorded this song using acoustic guitar, along with two other folk-flavored originals and a few traditional songs, on the 78-rpm album Folk Songs of the Hills, which had drawn little attention at the time.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /inductees/merle_travis.html (802 words)

	Travis Picking Lesson
		Travis Picking, named after Merle Travis, involves playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out some syncopated rhythms with the fingers of the right hand (assuming a right handed guitarist).
		In this case the overall rhythm of the Travis pattern is not syncopated, however when you break the pattern down into its two elements, one part (played with the thumb) is on the beat, and the other part (played with the fingers) is sometimes in between the beat, hence the term syncopated.
		The key to gaining command of the Travis pattern is the accurate repetition during practice.
	www.guitarland.com /Travis.html (1028 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: 1959 In Boston Live [Live] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Blurring the line between country and folk, Travis was never in better form, and his songs are as timeless in the 21st century as they were when they were written.
		Merle plays his Martin D-28 acoustic guitar throughout, which gives us softer, warmer versions of his signature instrumentals.
		Through the majority of the songs, Merle uses his guitar to accompany his warm voice, throwing in a few majestic licks and fills along the way.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000090W8W (790 words)

	Vintage Guitar® magazine : Featured Brand
		Longtime California luthier (and Merle Travis fan) R.C. Allen was interviewed by Vintage Guitar in l994, and his friendship with Travis, as well as Mr.
		Allen believes Merle Travis had his guitar modified with a “Fender-ish” headstock (and, most likely, the cutaway) soon after Travis saw the Grohs Bigsby, which was completed in August of ’48.
		Merle Travis’ guitar may have been the first Bigsby Spanish electric guitar ever built, but the second one appears to have been the first to feature the headstock silhouette that is probably a large part of discussions concerning the earliest California-made solidbody electric guitars.
	www.vintageguitar.com /brands/details.asp (764 words)

	Merle Travis
		Son of a tobacco farmer-turned-coalminer, Merle Travis spent most of his childhood in the small town of Ebenezer, living amongst conditions of extreme poverty.
		His father played the five-string banjo and for a while Merle also took up the instrument, but by the age of 12 he switched over to guitar after being presented a non-descript model by his brother.
		By his late teens Travis hit the road, busking around the country and eventually landing a job with The Tennessee Tomcats, followed by a period with the higher-profile group Clayton McMichen's Georgia Wildcats beginning in 1937.
	www.nndb.com /people/763/000047622 (550 words)

	Gruhn Guitars Merle Travis D-28 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As the fingerboard inlay suggests, this 1969 Martin D-28 was owned by the influential finger-picking singer/songwrite Merle Travis.
		The story of this guitar is told by Travis' son Thom Bresh (himself a noted fingerpicking guitarist) in a signed note that accompanies this instrument:
		in perfect Travis style he had his name inlaid with mother-of-pearl in the fretboard, as he would say, "So everybody could read and learn my name by the time the show was over." I think he even had his longjohns embroidered.
	www.gruhn.com /features/travisd-28/AA6874.html (455 words)

	Travis, Merle -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		in full Merle Robert Travis American country singer, songwriter, and guitarist who popularized the complex guitar-picking technique now known as the Travis style, or Travis picking, whereby the index finger plays the melody while the thumb plays rhythmic accompaniment.
		Travis was also a popular singer and writer of hits in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
		More results on "Travis, Merle" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9100079?tocId=9100079 (743 words)

	Sixteen Tons (Merle Travis) (1946)
		I'd sung Sixteen Tons years before [on radio], but it hadn't been any blockbuster, and Merle Travis, who'd written it, had put it in an album of his songs called Folk Songs of the Hills.
		Merle Travis' song (original recording: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA, Aug 8, 1946, released as Capitol 48001, 1947), according to Archie Greeen (who obtained this info through conversations with Merle Travis in 1960), is derived from the following "sources":
		Lyrics as recorded by Merle Travis, Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA, Aug 8, 1946, released as Capitol 48001, 1947; reprinted in Green, p.
	www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/parton/2/sixteen.html (1221 words)

	Indie-Music.com - Merle Travis ~ The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Merle Travis died in 1983 but long before that was established as one of the most influential guitarists and songwriters in the history of country music.
		Travis' style of guitar playing - adapted from five-string banjo playing, was unique enough to have been honored as "Travis picking." Sweet Temptation draws from Travis' peak recording period that saw much chart success and yielded many classics.
		The set does, however, reveal Travis' role in the development of rock 'n' roll.
	www.indie-music.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=901 (248 words)

	Merle Travis MP3 Downloads - Merle Travis Music Downloads - Merle Travis Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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...
		Joe and Rose Maphis were a popular husband-and-wife act in the late '40s and early '50s, singing traditional material backed by the amazing instrumental talent of Joe, who played everything with...
		In the latter half of the 20th century there were three pre-eminently influential folk/country guitar players: Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, and Arthel "Doc" Watson, a flat-picking genius from Deep...
	www.mp3.com /Merle-Travis/artists/1538/summary.html (208 words)

	Amazon.com: The Real Merle Travis Guitar - Like Father, Like Son: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Merle Travis passed away in 1983, we lost one of our most innovative and distinctive musical voices.
		He takes you -- step-by-step -- through Merle's timeless techniques, playing the famous 1938 Martin D-28 with the custom Bigsby neck that was passed on to him by Travis.
		Homespun is proud to present this lesson to the growing number of Travis enthusiasts and fingerstyle guitarists worldwide.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000297NMC?v=glance (686 words)

	Ink 19 :: Merle Travis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		No musician has ever been, or will ever be, as influential as Merle Travis has been on guitar players as a whole.
		Both are men who held Merle Travis in such high regard that they named children after him (despite the fact that Chet's child was a girl!).
		Couple this with the fact that these two men are probably two of the most influential guitar players who ever lived, and reason will tell you that Merle Travis' trickle-down influence is immeasurable.
	www.ink19.com /issues/june2000/wetInk/musicTZ/merleTravis.html (393 words)

	Vassar Clements Merchandise - VPCD9 / Saturday Night Shuffle - A Celebration of Merle Travis: A Man and His ...
		Country Music Hall of Fame member, Merle Travis, was a giant figure in American music.
		He was one of the most respected and influential guitar players of our time, a writer of countless hit songs and a consummate performing artist with a distinguished recording career.
		On this album many of Merle's old friends and musical partners have come together to celebrate his legacy.
	www.vassarclements.com /cdcat/vpcd9.html (141 words)

	Merle Travis/Rare Performances 1946-1981, Volume 1 - SUPERSEDED - MIDI Classics
		The music and guitar playing of Merle Travis have been a seminal influence on the American music scene.
		There is not a fingerstyle guitarist whose playing has not been touched be Merle's style and technique.
		He wrote over 900 songs, and some, such as Sixteen Tons and Dark as a Dungeon, are so familiar that today they are thought of as "folk songs".
	www.midi-classics.com /v/v8360.htm (132 words)

	Travis, Merle : Camsco Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Merle Travis' style of playing popularized fingerpicking and opened up the possibility of playing the guitar as a solo instrument.
		With Rev. Gary Davis (one song), Merle Travis (three songs), Elizabeth Cotten (four songs), Doc Watson (two songs), Doc & Merle Watson (three songs), Sam & Kirk McGee (three songs), Mance Lipscomb (two songs), Roscoe Holcomb (one song), Josh White (one song) and Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry (one song).
		They fashioned a deeply influential playing style created from the rags, blues, ballads, and native airs that permeated their times and give impetus to any musician, knowingly or not, who picks a string today.
	www.camsco.com /artists/merle_travis.html (491 words)

	Review: The Best of Merle Travis, 'Sweet Temptation (1946-1953)'
		Merle Travis is perhaps best remembered as the writer of the coal-miner's lament, "Sixteen Tons," but in his late-40's heyday, he was one of the kings of the Los Angeles country music scene.
		Merle Travis, Bob Wills and the Whippoorwills were ready to fill that need.
		Merle Travis was my uncle and one of my best friends.
	www.leisuresuit.net /Webzine/articles/merle_travis.shtml (567 words)

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