Back Home (Merle Travis album)
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | 1945–1947 | |||
| Genre | Traditional, country, Americana | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Lee Gillette | |||
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Allmusic |   [1] |
Back Home is a compilation LP consisting of
This was Travis's first LP featuring entirely acoustic guitar rather than electric. The cover shows a grist mill powered by a water wheel, a main source of energy "back home" before the arrival of electricity.
In his autobiography[2] Johnny Cash says about this album: "If I had to answer that old but still interesting question, 'What music would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island?', I'd say the Freewheelin' would have to be on the list. So would Merle Travis's Down Home, which has "Sixteen Tons" and all those other great songs on it and was the first country concept album (Ride This Train was the second)."
Track listing
- "Nine Pound Hammer" (Travis)
- "John Henry" (Traditional)
- "Sixteen Tons" (Travis)
- "Dark as a Dungeon" (Travis)
- "That's All" (Travis)
- "Over by Number Nine" (Travis)
- "I Am a Pilgrim" (Traditional)
- "Muskrat" (Traditional)
- "John Bolin" (Traditional)
- "Possum up a Simmon Tree" (Traditional)
- "Barbara Allen" (Traditional)
- "Lost John (from Bowling Green)" (Traditional)
Notes
- ^ Unterberger, Richie. "Merle Travis - Back Home". Allmusic.com. Retrieved July 11, 2019.
- ^ Johnny Cash with Patrick Carr: The Autobiography, HarperCollins, 1997
Personnel
- Merle Travis – vocals and acoustic guitar
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