In late 1965, Merle Travis played at the NCO Club in Wildflecken, Germany - a border patrol kaserne between East/West Germany. There were only about 25 of us there that evening, because the 2nd Bn./15th Inf. had been alerted over some incident near Gersfeld. Merle played for over an hour - all the wonderful finger picking that made up the Travis style. Toward the end, he asked if there were any requests, and I said "Dark as a Dungeon." He smiled and asked if I was from Kentucky- I said, 'No, West Virginia,' and he laughed. But boy, he did play it!

Padre