Guitar Rags & A Too Fast Past

Merle Travis

Bear Family

A five CD box set collecting 145 songs and instrumentals recorded between 1942 and 1955.

Tracks

• You'll Be Lonesome, Too (Nathan)
• The Steppin' Out Kind (Nathan)
• When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down (Nathan / Starkey)
• Two Time Annie (Nathan)
• What Will I Do? (Miller / Newman)
• So Long, Farewell,Goodbye (Morris)
• God Put a Rainbow on the Clouds (Jenkins)
• It May Be Too Late (Travis / Tuttle)
• Be on Your Way
• Rainin' on the Mountain (Delmore)
• Give Me Your Hand (Traditional)
• Out on the Open Range (Bond)
• Ridin' Down to Santa Fe (Bond)
• Hominy Grits (Burnette)
• That's All (Travis)
• Boogie Woogie Boy (Freeman)
• Boogie Woogie Boy (Freeman)
• I Used to Work in Chicago (Jaffe / Prima / Vincent)
• Merle's Buck Dance (Travis)
• Steel Guitar Stomp (Travis)
• I Used to Work in Chicago (Jaffe / Prima / Vincent)
• I'm All Thru Trusting You (Fisher / Travis)
• Weary Lonesome Me (Atchison / Travis)
• No Vacancy (Stone / Travis)
• Cincinnati Lou (Fisher / Travis)
• Two Is a Couple (And Three Is a Crowd) (Buck Nation / Travis)
• What a Shame (Atchison / Nation / Travis)
• T for Texas (Blue Yodel No 1) (Rodgers)
• Missouri (Duncan / Penny)
• Divorce Me C.O.D (Stone / Travis)
• A Fool at the Steering Wheel (Travis)
• Nine Pound Hammer (Travis)
• Sixteen Tons (Travis)
• Sixteen Tons (Travis)
• Dark as a Dungeon (Travis)
• Over by Number Nine (Travis)
• That's All (Travis)
• John Henry (Traditional)
• Muskrat (Traditional)
• I Am a Pilgrim (Traditional)
• This World Is Not My Home (Traditional)
• The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along (Heath / Wood)
• (Oh Why / Oh Why / Did I Ever Leave) Wyoming (Amsterdam)
• A Little Too Fer (Hates)
• When Rosie Riccoola Do the Hoola Ma Boola (Lange / Sterling)
• Steel Guitar Rag (McAuliffe / Stone / Travis)
• Honey Bunch (Buck Nation / Travis)
• Sweet Temptation (Stone / Travis)
• Don't Hand Me That Old Line (Fisher)
• Steel Guitar Rag (McAuliffe / Stone / Travis)
• Honey Bunch (Buck Nation / Travis)
• So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed (Kirk / Stone / Travis)
• Alimony Bound (Tex An / Travis)
• Follow Thru (Tex An / Wakely)
• Three Times Seven (Stone / Travis)
• I'm Sick and Tired of You, Little Darling (Stone / Travis)
• Sunshine's Back in Town (Rusk / Travis)
• The Devil to Pay (Rusk / Travis)
• Steel Guitar Rag (McAuliffe / Stone / Travis)
• Lawdy, What a Gal (Stone / Travis)
• Sioux City Sue (Freedman / Thomas)
• Muskrat (Traditional)
• Fat Gal (Travis)
• Fat Gal (Travis)
• I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size (Travis)
• Merle's Boogie Woogie (Travis)
• Merle's Boogie Woogie (Travis)
• Dapper Dan (VanTilzer)
• When My Baby Double Talks to Me (Travis)
• I'm Picking up the Pieces to My Heart (Atchison / Webber)
• Information Please (Hensley / Murrell / Travis)
• Any Old Time (Rodgers)
• Kentucky Means Paradise (Travis)
• Leave My Honey Bee Alone (Buck Nation / Rogers)
• I'm a Natural Born Gamblin' Man (Atchison / Travis)
• Get Along Blues (Hayes / Travis)
• A Too Fast Past (Atchison / Travis)
• Crazy Boogie (Cargill)
• You Better Try Another Man (Cargill / Travis)
• Deck of Cards (Tyler)
• Wabash Cannonball (Carter)
• Blues Stay Away from Me (Delmore / Delmore / Glover / Raney)
• Philososphy (Haldeman / Mitchell / Porter / Trace)
• I Got a Mean Old Woman (Hensley)
• I'm Picking up the Pieces to My Heart (Atchison / Webber)
• Petticoat Fever (Travis)
• Start Even (Travis)
• Guitar Rag (Travis)
• Cane Bottom Chair (Marks / Robison)
• I'm Knee Deep in Trouble (Travis)
• Little Miss Sherlock Holmes (Travis)
• Too Much Sugar for a Dime (Travis)
• Spoonin' Moon (Travis)
• Trouble, Trouble (Lanham)
• El Ren (Sooter)
• Won'tcha Be My Baby (Hensley / Travis)
• Dry Bread (Travis)
• Lost John Boogie (Travis)
• Deep South (Hill / Travis)
• Boogie in Minor (Crockett)
• Let's Settle Down (To Runnin' Around Together) (Travis)
• Done Rovin' (Horton)
• Faithful Fool (Travis)
• Love Must Be Ketchin' (Travis)
• Kinfolks in Carolina (Travis)
• Kinfolks in Carolina (Travis)
• Rainy Day Feelin' (Hensley / Travis)
• A Too Fast Past (Atchison / Travis)
• Knee Deep in Trouble (Travis)
• Ain't That a Cryin' Shame (Travis)
• I'll See You in My Dreams (Jones / Kahn)
• Cannonball Rag (Travis)
• I'll Have Myself a Ball (Cody)
• Bayou Baby (Travis)
• Green Cheese (Travis)
• Louisiana Boogie (Travis)
• Guitar Rag (Travis)
• Saturday Night Shuffle (Travis)
• The Waltz You Saved for Me (Kahn / King)
• Crazy 'Bout You (Travis)
• Re-Enlistment Blues (Jones / Karger / Wells)
• Dance of the Golden Rod (Travis)
• Gambler's Guitar (Lowe)
• Shut up and Drink Your Beer (Newman)
• Seminole Drag (Stubbs)
• Jolie Fille (Pretty Girl) (Rodriquez)
• I Can't Afford the Coffee (I'm Tired of Drinking Weak Tea Blues) (Thrasher)
• Blue Bell (Madden / Morse)
• Memphis Blues (Handy / Norton)
• The Sheik of Araby (Smith / Snyder / Wheeler)
• On a Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Belle) (Dacre)
• Black Diamond Blues (Travis)
• Blue Smoke (Travis)
• Walking the Strings (Travis)
• Saturday Night Shuffle (Travis)
• Sleepy Time Gal (Alden / Egan / Lorenzo / Whiting)
• Tuck Me to Sleep (In My Old 'Tucky Home) (Lewis / Young)
• Rock-A-Bye Rock (Travis)
• Bugle Call Rag (Meyers / Pettis / Schoebel)
• Cuddle up a Little Closer / Lovey Mine (Harbach / Hoschna)
• Beer Barrel Polka (Brown / Vejvoda)
• Trun My Picture Upside Down (Cooley / Eaker)
• If You Want It / I've Got It (Hill / Hill)
• Lazy River (Arodin / Carmichael)
• Hunky Dory (Hill / Hill)