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    In The Woodshed

    Aug 26, 2020 3 minutes

    Merle Travis was born in Rosewood Kentucky in 1917, and found fame in the 40s and 50s hosting his country music TV show, Merle Travis And Company, and with an appearance in the 1953 movie From Here To Eternity, alongside Burt Lancaster and Frank Sinatra.

    Although being an all-round and highly influential blues, jazz and western swing musician, he is best remembered for his trademark fingerpicking style, known today as Travis picking. This can be thought

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