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Walkin the strings was the first solo acoustic guitar album by merle travis, released in 1960 but recorded in the late 1940s and early 1950s, when travis was at the peak of his performing abilities. Popularized by country legend merle travis, travis picking usually involves the. Indeed, atkins was initially signed to rca to be that. Unlike other forms of art, which we experience as artifacts quite detached from their creators, musical performance gives us the.
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