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1. Merle Travis was virtually without peer as a guitarist and songwriter.
2. Merle Travis was inducted into the CMHF in 1977. (Web site)
3. Merle Travis was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977 and died in 1983.

Merle Travis

1. After three years, he moved to WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Merle Travis had formerly worked.
2. Although not nearly as well known as figures like Bob Wills, the Maddox Brothers, and Merle Travis, Tex Williams was an important western swing performer.
3. All I knew of Merle Travis was "Nine-Pound Hammer" and his excellent picking and pleasant voice.
4. Atkins did not have a strong style of his own until 1939 when (while still living in Georgia) he heard Merle Travis picking over WLW radio.
5. This album, Titled "Merle Travis," is the most definitive of all the recordings ever made of Merle Travis.

Chet

1. Chet Atkins said he heard Merle Travis when he was a kid living on a farm in Georgia.
2. Chet Atkins said he heard Merle Travis when he was a kid living on a farm in Georgia.
3. RCA stuck with him, believing that Chet might be its answer to Capitol's star Merle Travis. (Web site)
4. He was credited as the guiding force in uniting Chet Atkins and Merle Travis for their Grammy-winning 1974 album, The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show.

Guitar

1. Doc Watson was so taken with the guitar of Merle Travis that he named his son after the great guitarist.
2. MERLE TRAVIS Sundazed 9010 Strictly Guitar ● CD $12.98 11 great guitar instrumentals recorded in 1968 by one of the most influential of all guitarists. (Web site)
3. He is the son of legendary Hall of Fame guitar great Merle Travis, and can recreate that famous Travis style with an incredible Bresh twist.
4. He was influenced by the music of Carl Smith, Mac Wiseman, Ernest Tubb and the guitar playing of Merle Travis. (Web site)
5. It seems near impossible that one could play all the guitar parts that Merle Travis plays, using only his thumb and one finger, but he did it.

Guitarist

1. Merle Travis is now widely acknowledged as one of the most influential American guitarists of the pre-rock era. (Web site)
2. Born Nov 29, 1917 in Rosewood, KY. Died Oct 20, 1983 in Tahlequah, OK. Merle Travis was virtually without peer as a guitarist and songwriter. (Web site)

Picking

1. All I knew of Merle Travis was "Nine-Pound Hammer" and his excellent picking and pleasant voice.
2. His virtuoso picking inspired by Merle Travis, Django Reinhardt, George Barnes and Les Paul, brought him admirers both within and outside the country scene.

Coal

1. While living in Cincinnati, he became aquainted with Merle Travis and Grandpa Jones. (Web site)
2. He developed this style from listening to Merle Travis occasionally on a primitive radio.
3. Sixteen Tons " is a song about the misery of coal mining , written in 1947 by U.S. country singer Merle Travis .
4. Some songs on Coal, such as Merle Travis' Dark as a Dungeon, are more than a half-century old. (Web site)

Smith

1. But by 1956 Smith had been invited back to the west coast by Wakeley, where he struck up a new collaboration with the famous country guitarist Merle Travis.
2. He was influenced by the music of Carl Smith, Mac Wiseman, Ernest Tubb and the guitar playing of Merle Travis. (Web site)

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1. Music > Musical Instruments > Guitars > Guitarists
2. Society > Culture > Arts > Music
3. Arts > Music > Composers > Songwriters
4. Glossaries > Glossary of Country Singers /
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