category: instrumental country / blues / easy listening

[excerpt from the original LP liner notes]:
"Merle Travis and Joe Maphis deserve a far finer tribute than I have the ability to write. I would ordinarily shy away from anything that involves writing. But a job like this can be a labor of love if the subjects are two of the mightiest men who ever rested guitars in their laps, and, of course, they've been two close friends of mine for a good many years now. Now that Capital Records has teamed these two thoroughbreds, this album will be a must for all of us guitar pickers." -- Chet Atkins, 1964

CD Track Listing

  1. Corrine, Corrina (Willams / Chatman / Parish) (2:31)
  2. Big Midnight Special (trad. arr. Travis / Maphis) (2:30)
  3. Bayou Baby (Merle Travis) (2:04)
  4. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down (Merle Travis) (2:18)
  5. Guitar Rag (Merle Travis) (2:13)
  6. Blast Off (Travis / Maphis) (2:23)
  7. When It’s Time for the Whippoorwill to Sing (Alton Delmore) (2:02)
  8. West Coast Blues (Merle Travis) (3:37)
  9. Mainstreet Breakdown (Chet Atkins) (2:25)
10. Picture On the Wall (trad. arr. Travis / Maphis) (2:19)
11. Kentucky Waltz (Bill Monroe) (2:40)
12. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar (Alton Delmore) (2:21)

Total timing: 29:27

Label/No: Sundazed Music 9011

Release date: (c)1964, 2005 reissue