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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 ...
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. [1]
Pattern picking is the use of "preset right-hand pattern[s]" while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords. [15] The most common pattern, sometimes broadly referred to as Travis picking after Merle Travis, and popularized by Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, James Burton, Marcel Dadi, James Taylor, [16] John Prine, Colter Wall and ...
The song describes a woman through the use of advertising slogans. The slogan "So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw" was used in the Lucky Strike brand cigarette advertising of the time, first heard in 1944 on the Jack Benny and Your Hit Parade radio programs.
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.
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If Travis Scott starts skipping like a CD during a live concert, it’s because he’s vibing.. Scott, 32, went viral because he played “FE!N,” his song with Playboy Carti, 10 times during a ...