category: country / blues / folk

Album review:
"At 62 years old, Travis could still pick with agility and grace, and his electric and acoustic runs show the joy he must have felt revisiting his classics with friends Herb Remington, Johnny Gimble, and Curly Hollingsworth (among others) along for the ride. No fancy overdubs, no overproduction, just stone country music. Absenting any other overview of the Kentuckian's best songs, this set suffices and charms in its own right." -- Roy Kasten

CD Track Listing

  1. John Henry (trad. arr. M.Travis) (3:06)
  2. Start Even (M.Travis) (3:22)
  3. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) (M.Travis / T.Williams) (2:53)
  4. Lazy River (instrumental) (Carmichael / Arodin) (2:03)
  5. So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed (Travis / Stone / Kirk) (2:11)
  6. Sweet Temptation (Travis / Stone) (2:33)
  7. Divorce Me C.O.D. (Travis / Stone) (2:15)
  8. I Am A Pilgrim (M.Travis) (2:41)
  9. Cincinnati Lou (Travis / Fisher) (2:09)
10. Dance Of The Goldenrod (instrumental) (M.Travis) (1:49)
11. Fat Gal (M.Travis) (3:05)
12. Re-Enlistment Blues (Karger / Wells / Jones) (3:25)
13. Nine Pound Hammer ((M.Travis) (1:46)
14. Kentucky Means Paradise (M.Travis) (3:15)
15. Sixteen Tons (M.Travis) (2:57)
16. Steel Guitar Rag (McAuliffe / Travis / Stone) (2:10)
17. Goodbye My Bluebell (instrumental) (trad. arr. M.Christian) (2:00)
18. I Like My Chicken Fryin' Size (M.Travis) (2:13)
19. When My Baby Double Talks To Me (M.Travis) (2:27)
20. Dark As A Dungeon (M.Travis) (3:59)
21. I'm A Natural Born Gambling Man (Travis / Atchison) (2:08)
22. Bayou Baby (M.Travis) (2:21)
23. I'll See You In My Dreams (instrumental) (Jones / Kahn) (2:18)
24. That's All (M.Travis) (2:30)

Total timing: 61:49

Label/No: CMH Records 9018

Release date: (c)1979, 1989 reissue