category: instrumental country / blues / easy listening

[excerpt from the CD liner notes]:
"Guitar legend Merle Travis—the man who wrote Tennessee Ernie Ford’s 1955 smash "Sixteen Tons"—was a fretboard master dubbed "the most original guitarist ever" by his peers. Strictly Guitar finds Travis re-visiting classics of the ’20s and ’30s—the stuff he cut his teeth on—in a purely instrumental set that will intrigue and enlighten anyone searching for the headwaters of Country & Western music." -- Sundazed Music 2005

CD Track Listing

  1. Heart of My Heart (Ben Ryan) (2:16)
  2. Lazy River (Carmichael / Arodin) (2:25)
  3. Guitar Rag (Carmen Mastern) (2:15)
  4. Dance of the Goldenrod (Merle Travis) (2:19)
  5. Cuddle Up a Little Closer (William B. Friedlander) (2:44)
  6. Cannon Ball Rag (Merle Travis) (2:04)
  7. Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me (Clare / Conrad) (1:58)
  8. I’ll See You in My Dreams (Kahn / Jones) (1:57)
  9. Gotta Have My Baby Back (Floyd Tillman) (3:00)
10. Way Down Yonder in New Orleans (Creamer / Layton) (2:23)
11. Fishers Horn Pipe (trad. arr. Merle Travis) (1:23)

Total timing: 24:49

Label/No: Sundazed Music 9010

Release date: (c)1964, 2005 reissue