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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A short play along tutorial with onscreen tabs that shows the intro to the Kansas song Dust in the Wind with a Travis picking pattern. I played it on a low G ukulele in the video. It also works well with high G tuning.

https://youtu.be/JzDnfhj2jFA

🎼 PDF with Tabs & Sheet Music: https://ukealong.com/downloads/

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