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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.
[7] [8] [9] They also made the charts with "Sixteen Tons", which peaked at number 47 on the Billboard Hot 100. [ 5 ] [ 7 ] Red Hot , which saw the addition of keyboard player John Tanner, also received positive reviews but was less commercially successful.
The album, with Travis accompanied only by his guitar, contains his two most enduring songs, both centered on the lives of coal miners: "Sixteen Tons" and "Dark as a Dungeon". [1] "Sixteen Tons" became a No. 1 Billboard country hit for Tennessee Ernie Ford in 1955 [3] and has been recorded many times over
ZZ Top's 2016 live album Live: Greatest Hits from Around the World on the songs "Rough Boy" and "Sixteen Tons" Joe Cocker's Heart & Soul album on the track "I (Who Have Nothing)" Brian May's song "The Guv'nor" from the album Another World; Pretenders' song "Legalise Me" from the 1999 album Viva El Amor
These self-released albums include Oh, What a Beautiful Morning (2000), Electro-Shock Blues Show (2002), Sixteen Tons (Ten Songs) (2005), and Live and in Person! London 2006 (2008). The band has only sold these albums at live shows and later online.
Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger is the fifth studio album by American rock and roll pioneer Bo Diddley released in December 1960 by Checker Records. [1] The album title comes from the album's first track called "Gunslinger" and the cover art has Bo Diddley dressed in Western-style clothing.
The only recording by Davis seems to be of "Sixteen Tons", made at the time of the interview and released in 1967, as his 1930s song was apparently unrecorded. Interesting to see Travis himself quoted here as saying, "I stole pieces of two Josh White songs and wrote Sixteen Tons".
Back Home is a compilation LP consisting of Merle Travis's album, Folk Songs of the Hills (1947), with four previously unreleased tracks. This album marked a new turn in Travis's career, bringing his Kentucky-style fingerpicking and down-home vocal style to the attention of a broad public of country and folk music enthusiasts at the onset of the American folk music revival.