Merle Travis Box set: Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD)

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5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 80-page book, 145 tracks. Playing time approx. 387 mns. What a... more

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Merle Travis: Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD)

5-CD boxed set (LP-size) with 80-page book, 145 tracks. Playing time approx. 387 mns.

What a guy! What a picker! What a set! A seminal, and hugely-praised set from one of the most influential musicians in country music. It not only includes all of his Capitol recordings from 1946-1955, but it also includes incredibly rare recordings for King, Bel-Tone, and other small labels, some done under pseudonyms like Tem Martin and the Shepherd Brothers. The famous Merle Travis guitar is featured on the rare guitar-only albums, and the hits here include Divorce Me COD, Steel Guitar Rag, No Vacancy, and Cincinnati Lou. As always, though, the real story is in the rare singles, album cuts, and unissued recordings where Merle's guitar and his winning humor shine. A feast for any fan of finger-style guitar!

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Interpret: Merle Travis
Album titlle: Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD)
Genre Country
Label Bear Family Records
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Price code EI
Artikelart Box set
EAN: 4000127156372
weight in Kg 1.5

Travis, Merle - Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD) Box set 1
01	The Steppin' Out Kind (SHEPPARD BROS)
02	When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down(McCARTHY)
03	Two Time Annie (BOB McCARTHY)
04	What Will I Do
05	So Long, Farewell, Goodbye (& GRANDPA JONES)
06	God Put A Rainbow In The Clouds (& W. TUTTLE)
07	It May Be Too Late (& WESLEY TUTTLE)
08	Be On Your Way (& WESLEY TUTTLE)
09	Rainin' On The Mountains (& WESLEY TUTTLE)
10	Give Me Your Hand (& WESLEY TUTTLE)
11	Out On The Open Range (& W.TUTTLE & S.FISHER)
12	Ridin' Down To Santa Fe (SHUG FISHER)
13	Hominy Grits
14	I Used To Work In Chicago (& TIN EAR TANNER)
15	Boogie Woogie Boy (PORKY FREEMAN TRIO)
16	Boogie Woogie Boy (alt.) (PORKY FREEMAN TRIO)
17	Merle's Buck Dance (& HANK PENNY)
18	Steel Guitar Stomp (& HANK PENNY)
19	That's All
20	I Used To Work In Chicago (DUSTY WARD)
21	I'm All Thru Trusting You (DUSTY WARD)
22	Weary Lonesome Me
23	No Vacancy
24	Cincinnati Lou
25	Two Is A Couple (And Three Is A Crowd)
26	What A Shame
27	T For Texas (Blue Yodel #1)

Travis, Merle - Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD) Box set 2
01	Divorce Me C.O.D.
02	A Fool At The Steering Wheel
03	Nine Pound Hammer
04	Sixteen Tons (false start)
05	Sixteen Tons
06	Dark As A Dungeon
07	Over By Number Nine
08	That's All
09	John Henry
10	Muskrat
11	I Am A Pilgrim
12	This World Is Not My Home
13	The Covered Wagon Rolled...(& JOHNNY MERCER)
14	Oh Why, Oh Why Did I Ever...(& JERRY COLONNA)
15	A Little Too Fer
16	When Rosie Riccoola Do The...(&JERRY COLONNA)
17	Steel Guitar Rag (alt)
18	Honey Bunch (alt)
19	Sweet Temptation/Don't Hang Me That Old Line
20	Steel Guitar Rag/Honey Bunch
21	So Round! So Firm! So Fully Packed!
22	Alimony Bound
23	Follow Thru
24	Three Times Seven
25	I'm Sick And Tired Of You, Little Darling

Travis, Merle - Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD) Box set 3
01	The Devil To Pay
02	Steel Guitar Rag
03	Lawdy, What A Gal
04	Sioux City Sue
05	Muskrat
06	Fat Gal (false start)
07	Fat Gal
08	I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size
09	Merle's Boogie Woogie (alt.)
10	Merle's Boogie Woogie
11	Dapper Dan
12	When My Baby Double Talks To Me
13	I'm Pickin' Up The Pieces Of My Heart
14	Information Please
15	Any Old Time
16	Kentucky Means Paradise
17	Leave My Honey Bee Alone
18	I'm A Natural Born Gamblin' Man
19	Get Along Blues
20	A Too Fast Past
21	Crazy Boogie
22	You Better Try Another Man
23	Deck Of Cards
24	Wabash Cannon Ball (& KAY STARR)
25	Blues Stay Away From Me
26	Philosophy
27	I Got A Mean Old Woman

Travis, Merle - Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD) Box set 4
01	Petticoat Fever
02	Start Even
03	Guitar Rag
04	Cane Bottom Chair
05	I'm Knee Deep In Trouble
06	Little Miss Sherlock Holmes
07	Too Much Sugar For A Dime (& BROWN & HAYDEN)
08	Spoonin' Moon (& GEORGIA BROWN & JUDY HAYDEN)
09	Trouble, Trouble (& THE WHIPPOORWILLS)
10	El Reno (& GEORGIA BROWN & JUDY HAYDEN)
11	Won't Cha Be My Baby
12	Dry Bread/Lost John Boogie (& WHIPPOORWILLS)
13	Deep South (& THE WHIPPOORWILLS)
14	Boogie In Minor (& THE WHIPPOORWILLS)
15	Let's Settle Down(&WHIPPOORWILLS)/Done Rovin'
16	Faithful Fool/Love Must Be Ketchin'
17	Kinfolks In Carolina
18	Kinfolks In Carolina
19	Rainy Day Feelin'
20	A Too Fast Past
21	Knee Deep In Trouble
22	Ain't That A Cryin' Shame
23	I'll See You In My Dreams
24	Cannon Ball Rag
25	I'll Have Myself A Ball
26	Bayou Baby (A Cajun Lullaby)
27	Green Cheese

Travis, Merle - Guitar Rags And A Too Fast Past (5-CD) Box set 5
01	Guitar Rag
02	Saturday Night Shuffle
03	The Waltz You Saved For Me
04	Crazy 'Bout You
05	Re-Enlistment Blues
06	Dance Of The Golden Rod
07	Gambler's Guitar
08	Shut Up And Drink Your Beer
09	Seminole Drag
10	Jolie Fille (Pretty Girl)
11	I Can't Afford The Coffee
12	Blue Bell
13	Memphis Blues
14	The Sheik Of Araby
15	On A Bicycle Built For Two (Daisy Belle)
16	Black Diamond Blues
17	Blue Smoke (remake)
18	Walking The Strings
19	Saturday Night Shuffle
20	Sleepy Time Gal
21	Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home
22	Rockabye Rock
23	Bugle Call Rag
24	Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine
25	Beer Barrel Polka
26	Turn My Picture Upside Down
27	If You Want It, I've Got It
28	Lazy River
29	Hunky Dory

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"Merle Travis"

Merle Travis

Since Merle Travis became a professional musician in 1936, he'd spent a good bit of his time on the air. 'Town Hall Party'was just one more gig.

Travis, born in 1917 in Muhlenberg County, in Kentucky’s coalmining country, grew up in the small town of Ebenezer. He played banjo first, but soon learned that region's trademark guitar fingerpicking style, which used a thumbpick to pick bass accompaniment while simultaneously playing lead and rhythm on the guitar's treble strings with the index finger. Travis's teachers were local miners and guitar masters Ike Everly (Don and Phil's dad) and Mose Rager. The style was adaptable to nearly any type of music: traditional favorites, blues, country or pop.

Determined that the guitar would help him avoid a life of mining, he turned professional in 1936 in Indiana, and briefly joined fiddler Clayton McMichen's Georgia Wildcats in 1937. As a member of the Drifting Pioneers, he joined Cincinnati's WLW in 1939. When the station began their weekly 'Boone County Jamboree' barn dance broadcast, Travis, now performing solo, was part of it. He worked with the Delmore Brothers, Grandpa Jones, Hank Penny, and Joe Maphis at WLW, all of whom became close friends. A young Chet Atkins heard Travis on a WLW broadcast. Duly inspired, Atkins created his own picking style.

California became Travis's home in March, 1944. Radio and recording session work took up much of his time at first. Stardom came in 1946 after he signed with Capitol and launched a string of hits beginning with Cincinnati Lou, Divorce Me C.O.D, followed by So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed, a vocal version of Steel Guitar Rag, Three Times Seven, Fat Gal and Merle's Boogie Woogie.

His composition Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette), a 1947 hit for Tex Williams, gave Capitol its first million-seller. Few noted Merle's newly-issued acoustic 78 rpm album 'Folk Songs Of The Hills,' which mixed traditional songs with folk-flavored Travis originals, including his impressionistic coal mining tune Sixteen Tons. He was also a regular on Cliffie Stone's KXLA 'Dinner Bell Round-Up'radio show.

In 1949 Travis briefly worked at the 'WRVA Old Dominion Barn Dance' in Richmond Virginia with Joe Maphis and his future wife/performing partner Rose Lee Schetrompf. After returning to L.A., at some point in 1950-51 Travis joined Foreman Phillips's 'B-K Ranch,' a local live TV program that ran six hours daily in TV's pre-network days. He convinced Philips to bring Joe and Rosie in from Richmond. Soon the three of them were working Hollywood area clubs together.

After 'Town Hall Party' began in 1952, Travis was a frequent guest. The Maphises joined the show's cast and Joe eventually became the show's bandleader. Playing a guitar-picking soldier in the classic 1953 movie set in World War II, 'From Here To Eternity,' Travis's performance of Re-Enlistment Blues became a unifying thread through the entire film which starred Montgomery Clift, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra and Deborah Kerr.

Stardom and fame aggravated Travis's deep-seated personal demons. Gentle and modest when sober, renowned for his cartooning and watch repair skills, he also battled stage fright, anxiety and depression. His drinking binges sometimes turned violent. "Every time Merle was about to make a breakthrough to mass acceptance, a near-tragedy occurred," Hank Penny remembered. "He was bent on self-destruction," said friend Wesley Tuttle. "He couldn't stand success."

He underscored that point in January, 1956. As Tennessee Ernie Ford's multi-million selling version of Sixteen Tons brought Travis widespread media attention, he got drunk and shot a clock off the wall at his home, sending third wife Bettie and her stepson fleeing to the street. The LAPD surrounded the house until Joe Maphis and his teenage guitar protégé, Town Hall's Larry Collins, arrived, entered and talked the now-calm Travis into coming out. Later that year, Travis's friends and family erected a granite monument in Ebenezer honoring both Travis and Sixteen Tons. He later wound up in California's Camarillo State Hospital for pill abuse. Hunting buddy Johnny Cash, himself a master pill-popper, visited regularly.

Still a Capitol artist when he made these 1958-59 THP appearances, he hadn't recorded for them since 1955, although he played on old pal Hank Thompson's Capitol recordings and toured with Thompson. These 25 THP performances mix hits, Muhlenberg fingerpicking favorites, and tunes he recorded for Capitol, as well as his protégé Chet Atkins's Main Street Breakdown.

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From: COURTIAL On: 11 Jun 2014

very good music as I expected, but first CD of the box is defective ; the last tracks of this first CD, from track 24, have more and more parasite sounds, and can't be heard at all for the 4 latest ones

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