Pop Chronicles Interviews #113 - Merle Travis
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- Influences: Mose Rager, Ike Everly, and Kennedy Jones; Arnold Shoots; guitar in the New World as opposed to Spain 0:02:29
- Cowboy guitar; country blues; "Backwater Blues"; "Fuller Blues" and Blind Boy Fuller 0:03:08
- Favorite guitar players; Chet Atkins story 0:03:22
- Ike Everly and his sons (the Everly Brothers); Gene Autry; Country Music Hall of Fame; wide appeal of country music 0:06:06
- Song lyrics across genres 0:01:26
- Songwriting and deadlines; "Sixteen Tons"; Chet Atkins; Mose Rager and Ike Everly; the electric guitar; George Barnes; fiddle tunes on the guitar 0:06:18
- Fiddle tunes on guitar; Joe Maphis; Floyd Cramer; explaining bluegrass; Bill Monroe; end of the "hillbilly" genre label 0:05:12
- "Hillbilly" discussion continued; the Nashville sound 0:01:12
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Pop Chronicles Interviews #113 - Merle Travis, audio recording, April 20, 1968; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1692101/: accessed October 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.