• Merle Travis

    Album Review
    Dave Edmunds – On Guitar Dave Edmunds: Rags and Classics
    DC Larson Posted On August 10, 2015


    The story of legendary guitar-slinger Dave Edmund’s artistic arc is one of exaltation, enrichment, and grand evolution. It isn’t every musician’s journey. But it is Dave’s, and a superb and admirable one it is. In the 1970s and 1980s, he […]


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    Merle Travis – The Best of Merle Travis: Sweet Temptation (1946-1953)
    Archive Posted On September 1, 2000


    Merle Travis is a guitar god. In our age of hype, that term has been as liberally applied as hot sauce on a Texas taco. However, in the pantheon of pickers, Merle Travis is Zeus. Furthermore, if Merle Travis had […]


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    Merle Travis – Walkin’ the Strings Folk Songs of the Hills
    Grant Alden Posted On September 1, 1996


    Kentucky-bred Merle Travis may, in the end, have been more influential as a songwriter (“Sixteen Tons”) and a guitar stylist (Chet Atkins) than as a recording artist in his own right. Which isn’t to ignore hits such as “Divorce Me […]


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