Merle Travis
- MatchMerle Travis
- 100%Blaze Foley
- 91%Chet Atkins
- 86%Red Foley
- 72%Bob Wills
- 71%Jimmie Rodgers
- 71%Jimmie Rodgers
- 67%Tom T. Hall
- 66%Doc Watson
- 63%Lefty Frizzell
- 61%Johnny Bond
Biography
Merle Robert Travis, 29 November 1917, Rosewood, Kentucky, USA, d. 20 October 1983, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA. Travis was the son of a tobacco farmer but by the time he was four years old, the family had moved to Ebenezer, Kentucky, and his father was working down the mines. Travis father often remarked, Another day older and deeper in debt, a phrase his son used in Sixteen Tons. His father played the banjo, but Travis preferred the guitar. He befriended two coal... Read more