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Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and musician born in Rosewood, Kentucky. His lyrics often discussed the exploitation of coal miners. Some of the songs he wrote or performed include: "Sixteen Tons", "Dark as a Dungeon", "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed", and "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette"; however, it is his masterful guitar playing that he is best known for today. "Travis picking", a style of guitar picking, is named after him. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970 and elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1977.

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List of famous Cowboy songs

Pecos Bill. Famous cowboy song singers are Hank Snow, Jimmy Driftwood, Doc Watson, Merle Travis, Bill...

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From Here to Eternity

, Jack Warden, and Merle Travis. The novel's author had an uncredited bit part in the film. In 2002...

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Truck system

"Sixteen Tons", written by Merle Travis in 1946: "You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day...

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Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance

Atkins & Merle Travis for The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show Grammy Awards of 1974 Steve Mandell..." Grammy Awards of 1980 Doc Watson & Merle Watson for "Big Sandy/Leather Britches" 1970s Grammy...

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Lenny Breau

guitarist for his parents' band, billed as "Lone Pine Junior", playing Merle Travis and Chet Atkins...

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Tennessee Ernie Ford

unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons," a sparsely...

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Grammy Awards of 1975

Country Instrumental Performance Chet Atkins & Merle Travis for The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show..." performed by Charlie Rich Folk Best Ethnic or Traditional Recording Doc Watson & Merle Watson for...

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November 29

actress (d. 2000) 1917 - Merle Travis, American singer (d. 1983) 1918 - Madeleine L'Engle, American...

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1947 in music

Goodhart & Al Urbano "Sixteen Tons" w.m. Merle Travis "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!" w.m. Merle Travis & Tex...

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List of protest songs

The Bar" "Shores of Botany Bay" "Sixteen Tons" Merle Travis "Solidarity Forever" Ralph Chaplin...

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