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Thread #96772 Message #1896519
Posted By: Mark Ross
30-Nov-06 - 10:36 AM
Thread Name: Merle Travis's birthday (29 November 1907)
Subject: RE: Merle Travis's birthday (29 November 1907)
Got to pick with him once at the Philly Festival in '76. A really wonderful gentleman and, needless to say a great picker. He was driving a red Cadillac convertible with a license plate that read 16 TONS, and when he sang that song, he sang the last line of the last chorus as;
"I owe my soul to Tennessee Ernie Ford.:
Mark Ross