Talk:Merle Travis

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Worth noting is that Merle Travis appears on the first "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" album.

Lyrics to Dark as a Dungeon
Click on the web site below for the lyrics to dark as a dungeon. Oh yeah and feel free to add it to the main article if you know how. http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/garcia-jerry/dark-as-a-dungeon-12706.html Utah Smith 10:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
 * The lyrics are copyrighted. The linked site is presumably a copyright violation. Wikipedia is rather more scrupulous about this sort of thing. In other words, please don't add copyrighted song lyrics to Wikipedia articles. - Jmabel | Talk 05:12, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

"All the Memories Money Can Buy"
David Sanjek, "All the Memories Money Can Buy", p.155-172 in This is Pop (2004), Eric Weisbard (ed.), Harvard University Press, ISBN 0674013441, has an excellent discussion of Travis, centered around (but by no means limited to) his turn to pseudo-folk in 1947. A section of his article, p.162-167, "Wanna Be a Folk Singer?" is entirely about Travis. I recommend it to anyone who wants to expand this article further. Not a topic I'm particularly interested in working on, but if someone is interested and lacks access to the book, let me know (email me) and I'll scan the relevant 6 pages and pass them to you for your use. - Jmabel | Talk 05:20, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Good stuff to know. I've got some other foci right now, but I may one day expand the article some, since Travis is from my home county, and we just built a new music center named after him. Don't bother with scanning the pages on my account (although I appreciate the offer) but if I get around to this later, I may contact you. Acdixon (talk • contribs • count) 12:36, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Thumbpicking
My father, Bernard "Bear" Travis, also from Muhlenberg county, KY, who also plays the guitar "Travis-style" and performed with him quite a few times, states that Merle Travis always called it "Thumbpicking", as he does. Apparently Thom Bresh, Merle's son, came up with the term "Finger-Picking".Paganize (talk) 08:03, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

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