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Sixteen Tons is the story of Country Music Hall of Fame member
Merle Travis, a brilliant, multi-talented, and deeply troubled
artist who is widely considered a genius. A world-class guitarist
who dazzled audiences with his Kentucky thumb-picking style, Merle
was also a pioneering country songwriter who wrote such classics as
“Dark as a Dungeon” and “Sixteen Tons.” Additionally, he
was responsible for early electric guitar innovations in the 1940s,
and was a gifted actor, writer, and cartoonist, among many other
talents. This definitive portrait of Travis’s life and career is
the result of a recently-discovered treasure trove of Merle’s
unpublished autobiographical writings, which have been fleshed out
with an immersive deep-dive biography by researcher and musical
historian Deke Dickerson. It details the highs of a career that
began with a string of nine straight Top 5 singles in the 1940s,
and the lows of a lifelong struggle with alcoholism that developed
into an addiction to pills that nearly killed Merle when he was
running with Johnny Cash in the late 1950s. Travis ultimately
reemerged to become a Grammy-winning artist who inspired millions
and became a music legend.
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