The Merle Travis Collection (Songbook)

The Merle Travis Collection (Songbook)

Author: Merle Travis

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1998-10-01

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1476801428

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(Guitar Recorded Versions). Notes and tab for 15 songs by one of country guitar's greatest legends. Includes: Cannon Ball Rag * Dark as a Dungeon * Fat Gal * I Am a Pilgrim * Kentucky Means Paradise * Sixteen Tons * Start Even * Sweet Temptation * and more, plus a biography/introduction.


Merle Travis Guitar Style

Merle Travis Guitar Style

Author: Merle Travis

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2015-09-08

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1610654269

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This is a thorough study into the renowned Travis Picking Guitar Style done by Merle's kinfolk, Tommy Flint. Included are vintage photos, interesting annotations and some great Travis guitar solos. If you want to learn to Travis pick, this book will take you there and then some! In notation and tablature.


Kentucky Thumbpicking Blues for Guitar

Kentucky Thumbpicking Blues for Guitar

Author: Tommy Flint

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2010-12-17

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1610651243

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A collection of 15 intermediate level thumbstyle blues guitar solos in the style developed and played by some of the coal miners of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky and surrounding areas in the early to mid-20th century. Jim Mason and Amos Johnson were two of the early players. the style was picked up and streamlined by Mose Rager and Ike Everly and was the forerunner of the Travis Style. This style can be heard on Merle Travis' blues recordings. the music is presented in notation and tablature with chord symbols. the performance/demonstration recording is excellent for listening. It contains all 15 tunes with rhythm guitar accompaniment.


The Story of Paul Bigsby

The Story of Paul Bigsby

Author: Andy Babiuk

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780615243047

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(Book). Most musicians are familiar with the famous Bigsby Vibrato, but not as many know about the wonderful guitars that Paul Bigsby built in the 1940s. Bigsby, who was responsible for developing and refining the pedal steel guitar, also built the first modern solid body electric guitar for Merle Travis in 1948, predating Leo Fender and Gibson's Les Paul by a number of years. The Story of Paul A. Bigsby tells how Bigsby influenced Fender and Gibson, as well as a number of other guitar manufacturers, in building techniques and design. This deluxe illustrated coffee table book contains over 300 color and black & white photos. Many of these have not previously been published, and over 50 are actual Bigsby instrument photos taken by fine arts photographer Greg Morgan. The book also comes with an audio CD of Paul Bigsby, recorded in the late 1950s, telling stories of his business.


The Strat in the Attic 2

The Strat in the Attic 2

Author: Deke Dickerson

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA

Published: 2014-11-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1627885560

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Don’t fret! The music historian and guitar sleuth brings you more astounding stories of rare guitar finds and the legends who owned them. Do you dream of finding a 1954 Stratocaster or 1952 Gibson Les Paul online, at a garage sale, or in the local penny saver? How about virtually rubbing elbows with one of your favorite rock legends? Following up his first-of-its-kind The Strat in the Attic, musician, journalist, and “guitarchaeologist” Deke Dickerson shares the stories behind dozens of more astounding finds including: A rarer-than-hens-teeth 1966 Hallmark Swept-Wing that originally belonged to Robbie Krieger of the Doors, stashed away in an attic in Alaska for forty years! A crazy-valuable 1958 Gibson Flying V belonging to a Chicago bluesman—who, it turns out, also happens to have an equally rare 1958 Gibson Explorer! An out-of-the-blue, a “to whom it may concern” email leads the author to a trailer park in Salem, Oregon, where one of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys’ original 1940s Epiphone Emperor archtops is waiting to be purchased for a song! Luthier R.C. Allen relates the tales of buying Nat “King” Cole Trio guitarist Oscar Moore’s Stromberg Master 400 archtop and of being gifted a 1953 Standel amp from Merle Travis! Buddy Merrill, the amazingly talented guitarist from the Lawrence Welk show, gives his 1970 Micro-Frets Huntington to the author, but only if he “promises to PRACTICE.” Photos of the guitars and other exciting memorabilia round out a package that no vintage-guitar aficionado will want to be without! “The man knows how to tell a great story.” —Jonathan Kellerman, #1 New York Times–bestselling author


Killer Technique: Fingerstyle Guitar

Killer Technique: Fingerstyle Guitar

Author: Michael O'Dorn

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications

Published: 2019-06-26

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1619119285

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Mentored by three legendary guitarists, Michael O’Dorn is the living repository of not only the Merle Travis thumbstyle technique, but also the fingerstyle legacies of Chet Atkins and French guitarist, Marcel Dadi. This book contains a discussion of the differences between fingerstyle and thumbstyle technique, plus the most advanced exercises and tunes of any of the author’s three books for Mel Bay Publications — a must-have for any serious fingerstyle guitarist! The book begins with a series of progressive picking patterns with practice points that guide the player through intermediate and advanced licks and techniques. The harmony of each exercise was intentionally left unresolved so that it can be repeated to perfection. Soon, you will be playing O’Dorn’s challenging Travis/Atkins/Dadi-inspired licks and compositions using the left-hand hammer-on, pull-off, and thumb-over techniques, and the right-hand thumb rake and palm mute. While the purpose of this book is to help you establish study habits that enhance your performance abilities, the exercises can also be used as intros, outros or springboards to kickstart your own compositions. At the end, as a payoff for completing the book’s lessons, the author presents three original compositions for player and audience enjoyment. Learn the evolutionary, often unconventional fingerstyle techniques of Travis, Atkins, Dadi, and O’Dorn with Killer Technique®: Fingerstyle Guitar! Includes access to an outstanding online audio recording of the book’s 47 exercises and solos.


Chet Atkins

Chet Atkins

Author: Chet Atkins

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0634055658

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Chet Atkins: Me and My Guitars is, without a doubt, the most comprehensive and enlightening book on Chet Atkins ever published. A friend of Atkins' for 40 years, Russ Cochran was privy to stories from Chet that even the most knowledgeable Chet fan would never know about. Chet tells it all in his own words about his childhood, his playing influences and early struggles to find work, along with insight into the guitars he used and endorsed along the way. The book includes full-color photos of Chet and his guitars, many only previously seen in a limited collector's edition. Photographer Wolf Hoffman manages to expertly capture the images of some very famous guitars played by Chet, including his first Sears Roebuck Silvertone, custom made D'Angelicos, the Gretsches, and the prototype models of the current Gibson Country Gentleman guitars. Over 60 guitars in Chet's private collection are photographed in Chet's home and his office on Music Row. Chet speaks about each of his important guitars - including the Gibson L-10 which his brother Jim gave him - telling the story of his career as seen through his guitars. More than just a pictorial review of his guitars throughout the years, it's a fascinating look inside the mind of history's greatest guitar player. This book will appeal to guitar collectors and Chet Atkins fans everywhere. Full-color and B/W photos throughout.


Mose Rager

Mose Rager

Author: Carlton Jackson

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781942613213

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Mose Rager: Kentucky's Incomparable Guitar Master is the story of this true Kentucky music legend who preferred living the quiet life to the fame he could have earned playing the country music circuit. There are many country guitar legends, Chet Atkins, Merle Travis, and Eddie Pennington, to name a few, who trace the roots of their music to Mose Rager of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky (home of the Everly Brothers). Known for developing a unique thumb-picking style, Mose worked as a barber and a coal miner when he wasn't playing gigs with Grandpa Jones, Curly Fox and Texas Ruby. Readers will appreciate the skills and easy way of this gifted "box" player, and learn why Highway 176 in Drakesboro, Kentucky is named Mose Rager Boulevard in his honor. Although Mose died on May 14, 1986, his sound lives on when modern-day pickers try to play "That Muhlenberg Sound."


Bluegrass Standards

Bluegrass Standards

Author: Hal Leonard Corp

Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781423406242

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(Guitar Solo). 16 bluegrass classics expertly arranged: Ballad of Jed Clampett * Blue Yodel No. 4 (California Blues) * Can't You Hear Me Calling * I'll Go Stepping Too * I'm Goin' Back to Old Kentucky * Let Me Love You One More Time * My Rose of Old Kentucky * We'll Meet Again Sweetheart * and more.