MERLE TRAVIS - Sixteen Tons - CD AJA 5428
27 Original Recordings 1946-1951
The expression, "one of the greats", is often bandied around when this or that artist comes up in conversation - but to say this of MERLE TRAVIS would not be overstating. Songwriter, actor, poet and possibly the greatest country guitarist of his generation, he is owed a great debt by guitar players the world over for his original conception of the solid bodied electric guitar.
