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The Real Merle Travis Guitar - Like Father, Like Son
The Real Merle Travis Guitar - Like Father Like Son
Actor: Thom Bresh
Director: Happy Traum
Genres: Music Video & Concerts, Special Interests, Educational, Musicals & Performing Arts
NR     2004     1hr 30min

Thom Bresh, the only son of the legendary guitarist Merle Travis, shows how to get the real Travis sound. He teaches several of Merle's best-loved guitar instrumentals: Guitar Rag, Cannonball Rag and others. A must-have fo...  more »

     
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Actor: Thom Bresh
Director: Happy Traum
Genres: Music Video & Concerts, Special Interests, Educational, Musicals & Performing Arts
Sub-Genres: Country, Pop, Rock & Roll, Special Interests, Educational, Independently Distributed
Studio: Homespun Tapes
Format: DVD - Color - Closed-captioned
DVD Release Date: 05/01/2004
Release Year: 2004
Run Time: 1hr 30min
Screens: Color
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 1
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Languages: English

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Movie Reviews

A DVD you'll return to again and again
Marten Sanden | Lund, Sweden | 07/19/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this DVD mainly to learn to play Merle Travis' arrangement of "I'll See You In My Dreams". Who better to learn from then Merle's own son, right? At first, Thom Bresh's charming but informal style of teaching was a bit hard to follow. He seemed to skip through things and it was sometimes hard to tell exactly what he was doing. As my own skills picked up, though, I realized Thom's approach was very much in keeping with the Travis style of picking - forceful, swinging and loose. If you're a beginner, like I was, you might want to start with Marcel Dadi's excellent and very precise DVDs (Nashville Picking vols 1 & 2) and then move on to Thom. Either way, you're bound to return to both again and again, and learn a great deal in the process."