Merle Travis- Singles Collection 1946-56

Merle Travis was a significant personality and influential country music stylist as a singer, songwriter, and notably as a guitarist, to the extent that he had an instrumental technique named after him, called “Travis picking”, which many musicians who came after him sought to emulate

Tracklist:

1. No Vacancy
2. Cincinnati Lou
3. Missouri
4. Divorce Me C.O.D
5. Sweet Temptation
6. So Round, So Firm, So Fulled Packed
7. Three Times Seven
8. Steel Guitar Rag
9. Spoonin’ Moon 1
10. Too Much Sugar 1
11. I’m Sick And Tired Of You, Little Darling 1
12. Lawdy, What A Gal 1
13. John Henry 1
14. Nine Pound Hammer 1
15. Dark As A Dungeon 1
16. Sixteen Tons 1
17. Over By Number Nine 1
18. That’s All 1
19. Muskrat 2
20. I Am A Pilgrim 2
21. Sioux City Sue 2
22. Fat Gal 2
23. Merle’s Boogie Woogie 2
24. I Like My Chicken Fryin’ Size 2
25. Follow Thru 2
26. Information Please 2
27. The Devil To Pay 2
28. Kentucky Means Paradise 2
29. When My Baby Double Talks To Me 3
30. A Fool At The Steering Wheel 3
31. Alimony Bound 3
32. I’m A Natural Born Gamblin’ Man 3
33. Crazy Boogie 3
34. T For Texas 3
35. Leave My Honey Bee Alone 3
36. What A Shame 3
37. Dapper Dan 3
38. Get Along Blues 3
39. Walkin’ The Strings 4
40. Fuller Blues 4
41. Blue Smoke 4
42. God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds 4
43. It May Be Too Late 4
44. Blues Stay Away From Me 4
45. Philosophy 4
46. I’m Pickin’ Up The Pieces Of My Heart 4
47. Petticoat Fever 4
48. Start Even 4
49. Cane Bottom Chair 5
50. Guitar Rag 5
51. El Reno