Back Home is a compilation LP consisting of Merle Travis's album, Folk Songs of the Hills (1947), with four previously unreleased tracks. This album marked a new turn in Travis's career, bringing his Kentucky-style fingerpicking and down-home vocal style to the attention of a broad public of country and folk music enthusiasts at the onset of the American folk music revival. Together with another Capitol release the following year, The Merle Travis Guitar, it introduced the style of guitar playing that came to be known, in simplified form, as Travis picking. The album includes traditional country songs such as "John Henry", "Muskrat", "Lost John (from Bowling Green)", "Barbara Allen", and Travis's signature gospel song, "I Am a Pilgrim". Also included are the original compositions "Dark as a Dungeon" and "Sixteen Tons". All songs are introduced by a spoken narrative. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dKiHtOiwxE&list=OLAK5uy_kst7w_Vp6COCfqDZr5Iq-GXOACeT4gJfo

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The Merle Travis Guitar is the second album by Merle Travis and his first instrumental album. It was recorded in 1955 and released on January 1, 1956 by Capitol Records. Together with another Capitol release of the previous year, Back Home, it introduced the style of guitar playing that came to be known as Travis picking to a wide public of finger-style guitarists and folk music enthusiasts. The album contains a selection of traditional guitar pickers' tunes from Travis' native Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and includes old standards, blues and rags. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh_Y_NQnKiY&list=OLAK5uy_kSvQQnOt6vso9HlOEcW4tNYVhUr8osvmE

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Was just listening to Jorma do Merle Travis' "Reenlistment Blues" and was inspired to read about Travis, whose W'pedia bio says he was "... a heavy drinker and at times desperately insecure despite a multitude of talents (including prose writing, taxidermy, cartooning, and watch repair)."

After a brief clip of Kirk and Monty, here's Merle doing it in the barracks in "From Here to Eternity."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW07_zioBOk

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Merle Travis:
🎵 Sixteen Tons

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https://bobtopia.bandcamp.com/track/merle-travis-sixteen-tons

https://open.spotify.com/track/6Jvw3KvzhMnp67v3wLbc6m

You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

#MerleTravis. 16 Tons

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Merle Travis:
🎵 Nine Pound Hammer

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https://merletravis.bandcamp.com/track/nine-pound-hammer-live

https://open.spotify.com/track/3rSrn37bkEtbWRk19d2OiH

OK, this week's prompt has nothing to do with horses (AFAIK)! 🐎 But try using the i–VII–VI–V chord progression...

Examples: “Sultans of Swing” (Dire Straits), “Sixteen Tons” (Merle Travis), “I Will Survive” (Gloria Gaynor), “Before He Cheats” (Carrie Underwood).

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