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No musician has ever been, or will ever be, as influential as Merle Travis ha...
... Walkin' The Strings for that -- but this is a good bit of his finest. His own rendering of his best known song, "Sixteen Tons" -- the song that gave Tennessee Ernie Ford his career -- cuts right to the heart of what it was really like for the early coal miners. His sense of humor and playfulness about ...
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Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields (Lonesome Pine Council on Youth). Review by David Whited.
... script up to the amount that he had worked that very day, so when payday came, there was sometimes little or nothing left. The Merle Travis-penned Tennessee Ernie Ford hit, "Sixteen Tons," is all about this. A Ned Beatty version is included on this disc. Merle Travis is also included with another classic ...
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