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"Sixteen Tons" is a song written by Merle Travis about a coal miner, based on life in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. [2] Travis first recorded the song at the Radio Recorders Studio B in Hollywood, California , on August 8, 1946.
Sixteen Tons (1960) Sing a Spiritual with Me (1960) Come to the Fair (1960) Civil War Songs of the North (1961) Civil War Songs of the South (1961) Looks at Love (1961) Hymns at Home (1961) Mississippi Showboat (1962) I Love to Tell the Story (1962) Book of Favorite Hymns (1962) Long, Long Ago (1963) We Gather Together (1963) Story of Christmas ...
Merle Robert Travis (November 29, 1917 – October 20, 1983) was an American country and western singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Born in Rosewood, Kentucky, [1] his songs' lyrics were often about the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners.
Sixteen Tons, a 1960 album by Tennessee Ernie Ford; Sixteen Tons of Bluegrass, a 1966 album by Pete Stanley and Wizz Jones; Sixteen Tons, a 2003 album by Weedeater; Sixteen Tons (Ten Songs), a 2005 album by Eels
Sixteen Tons of Bluegrass is an album by Pete Stanley and Wizz Jones produced by Chas McDevitt, and originally released in the UK1966 on Columbia Records. Wizz & Pete were probably the first British musicians to successfully interpret America's favourite traditional music for UK audiences. [ 1 ]
Among the songs he wrote and sang were "White Shotgun," "Buggerman in the Bushes," "Coal Miner's Boogie," "When Kentucky Had No Union Men," and "Harlan County Blues." "Sixteen Tons", the song about the misery of coal mining, is credited as being written in 1946 by country singer Merle Travis, who was the first to record it. However, Davis much ...
(Chorus) Sixteen carriages drivin’ away While I watch them ride with my dreams away To the summer sunset on a holy night On a long back road, all the tears I find
"I'm Throwing Rice at the Girl I Love" Single by Eddy Arnold, The Tennessee Plowboy and His Guitar; from the album Sixteen Tons ; B-side: Show Me The Way Back To Your Heart [1] ...