Latest Release
- 1 FEB 2024
- 17 Songs
- Folk Songs of the Hills · 1947
- The Very Best · 1979
- The Very Best · 2002
- Folk Songs of the Hills · 1947
- Country & Western Highlights, Pt. 1: Vol. 9, The Louvin Brothers & Merle Travis · 2019
- I'm a Natural Born Gamblin' Man · 2023
- I'm a Natural Born Gamblin' Man · 2023
- Rough, Rowdy & Blue · 2023
- Rough, Rowdy & Blue · 2023
- Rough, Rowdy & Blue · 2023
Live Albums
- 2009
Appears On
- The Brown's Ferry Four
About Merle Travis
One of the most influential country guitarists, Merle Travis inaugurated a cross-picking style of guitar playing in the 1930s and '40s that was forever after known as “Travis picking” and became a standard technique in country, folk, and rock. His guitar mastery sometimes overshadows his songwriting; born in Kentucky mining country, Travis wrote the miner's laments “Dark as a Dungeon” and “Sixteen Tons,” both of which became country standards. Travis made his final recordings for the CMH label in the late '70s and died of a heart attack in 1983.
- HOMETOWN
- Rosewood, KY, United States
- BORN
- 29 November 1917
- GENRE
- Country