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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Walkin' the Strings

Some consider this late 1940s Merle Travis album of instrumentals the best guitar album ever recorded. Sounds like it to me. I grew up on him, Travis a fixture on afternoon TV in LA in the early years. Doc Watson named his son after him. Both Travis and Watson finger picked with two, not three, fingers.