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Sixteen Tons: The Merle Travis Story,Used
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Sixteen Tons is the story of Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Travis, a brilliant, multitalented, and deeply troubled artist who is widely considered a genius. A worldclass guitarist who dazzled audiences with his Kentucky thumbpicking style, Merle was also a pioneering country songwriter who wrote such classics as Dark as a Dungeon and Sixteen Tons. Additionally, he was responsible for early electric guitar innovations in the 1940s, and was a gifted actor, writer, and cartoonist, among many other talents. This definitive portrait of Traviss life and career is the result of a recentlydiscovered treasure trove of Merles unpublished autobiographical writings, which have been fleshed out with an immersive deepdive biography by researcher and musical historian Deke Dickerson. It details the highs of a career that began with a string of nine straight Top 5 singles in the 1940s, and the lows of a lifelong struggle with alcoholism that developed into an addiction to pills that nearly killed Merle when he was running with Johnny Cash in the late 1950s. Travis ultimately reemerged to become a Grammywinning artist who inspired millions and became a music legend.
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