SIGNED* The Merle Travis Guitar LP Capitol Records (Rainbow) T 650 (1961)

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MERLE TRAVIS SIGNED LP Merle Travis LP The Merle Travis Guitar Cover Wear/Tape Upper Left/Seam Damage Top/Signed Reverse "To Ray Thanks Merle Travis" Capitol Tower Inner-Taped - Rainbow Capital 1961 - Excellent Plus Winner Pays Only $4.49 Shipping/Handling U.S.A.
Merle Travis LP The Merle Travis Guitar Label: Capitol Records – T 650, Capitol Records – T-650 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1956 *(1961 Rainbow Capitol Press) Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Country, Folk A1 Blue Smoke Written-By – Merle Travis 2:24 A2 Black Diamond Blues Written-By – Merle Travis 3:05 A3 On A Bicycle Built For Two Arranged By – Merle Travis Written-By – Harry Dacre 2:09 A4 Saturday Night Shuffle Written-By – Merle Travis 2:05 A5 Bugle Call Rag Written-By – Meyers*, Schoebel*, Pettis* 2:19 A6 Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home Written-By – Meyer*, Young*, Lewis* 2:27 B1 Walkin' The Strings Written-By – Merle Travis 1:50 B2 The Memphis Blues Written-By – W. C. Handy 2:35 B3 The Sheik Of Araby Written-By – Wheeler*, Smith*, Snyder* 2:04 B4 Blue Bell Written-By – Madden*, Theodore Morse 2:20 B5 The Waltz You Saved For Me Written-By – Flindt*, Kahn*, King* 2:23 B6 Rockabye Rag Written-By – Merle Travis 1:55
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States.  His songs' lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners. Among his many well-known songs and recordings are "Sixteen Tons", "Re-Enlistment Blues", "I am a Pilgrim" and "Dark as a Dungeon". However, it is his unique guitar style, still called "Travis picking" by guitarists, as well as his interpretations of the rich musical traditions of his native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, for which he is best known today. Travis picking is a syncopated style of guitar fingerpicking rooted in ragtime music in which alternating chords and bass notes are plucked by the thumb while melodies are simultaneously plucked by the index finger. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977