Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past

Compilation by Merle Travis

Released 1994

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CD 1: Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Vol. 1
1
You’ll Be Lonesome, Too
The Sheppard Brothers
3:17
2
The Steppin’ Out Kind
The Sheppard Brothers
2:52
3
When Mussolini Laid His Pistol Down
Bob McCarthy
2:49
4
Two Time Annie
Bob McCarthy
2:36
5
What Will I Do
2:39
6
So Long, Farewell, Goodbye
Merle Travis & Grandpa Jones
2:45
7
God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds
Merle Travis & Wesley Tuttle
3:04
8
It May Be Too Late
Merle Travis & Wesley Tuttle
2:55
9
Be on Your Way
Merle Travis & Wesley Tuttle
3:02
10
Rainin’ on the Mountain
Merle Travis & Wesley Tuttle
2:44
11
Give Me Your Hand
Merle Travis & Wesley Tuttle
2:39
12
Out on the Open Range
Merle Travis, Wesley Tuttle & Shug Fisher
2:46
13
Ridin’ Down to Santa Fe
Merle Travis & Shug Fisher
3:11
14
Homey Grits
Tem Martin
2:50
15
That’s All
2:48
16
Boogie Woogie Boy
Merle Travis & “Porky” Freeman Trio
3:05
17
Boogie Woogie Boy (alternate)
Merle Travis & “Porky” Freeman Trio
2:58
18
I Used to Work in Chicago
Tin Ear Tanner
2:39
19
Merle’s Buck Dance
Merle Travis & Hank Penny
2:49
20
Steel Guitar Stomp
Merle Travis & Hank Penny
2:52
21
I Used to Work in Chicago (alternate)
Dusty Ward
2:39
22
I’m All Through Trusting You
Dusty Ward
3:02
23
Weary Lonesome Me
2:32
24
No Vacancy
3:02
25
Cincinnati Lou
2:37
26
Two Is a Couple (And Three Is a Crowd)
2:34
27
What a Shame
2:48
28
T for Texas (Blue Yodel #1)
2:18
CD 2: Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Vol. 2
1
Missouri
2:45
2
Divorce Me C.O.D.
3:01
3
A Fool at the Steering Wheel
2:49
4
Nine Pound Hammer
2:41
5
Sixteen Tons (false start)
0:56
6
Sixteen Tons
2:52
7
Dark as a Dungeon
2:49
8
Over by Number Nine
3:10
9
That’s All
3:01
10
John Henry
3:07
11
Muskrat
3:20
12
I Am a Pilgrim
2:53
13
This World Is Not My Home
2:47
14
The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along
Merle Travis & Johnny Mercer
2:59
15
Oh Why Did I Ever Leave Montana
Merle Travis & Jerry Colonna
2:43
16
A Little Too Fer
2:27
17
When Rosie Riccoola Do the Hoola Ma Boola
Merle Travis & Jerry Colonna
2:32
18
Steel Guitar Rag (alternate)
2:58
19
Honey Bunch (alternate)
2:24
20
Sweet Temptation
2:54
21
Don’t Hand Me That Old Line
2:48
22
Steel Guitar Rag
3:05
23
Honey Bunch
2:45
24
So Round! So Firm! So Fully Packed!
2:59
3.0 ★
25
Alimoney Bound
2:58
26
Follow Thru
2:58
27
Three Times Seven
2:58
28
I’ Sick and Tired of You, Little Darling
3:00
CD 3: Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Vol. 3
1
Sunshines’s Back in Town
2:43
2
The Devil to Pay
2:46
3
Steel Guitar Rag
2:45
4
Lawdy What a Gal
2:53
5
Sioux City Sue
2:33
6
Muskrat
2:37
7
Fat Gal (false start)
1:09
8
Fat Gal
2:39
9
I Like My Chicken Fryin’ Size
2:46
10
Merle’s Boogie Woogie (alternate)
2:47
11
Merle’s Boogie Woogie
3:30
12
Dapper Dan
2:49
13
When My Baby Double Talks to Me
2:54
14
I’m Pickin’ Up the Pieces of My Heart
2:49
15
Information Please
2:55
16
Any Old Time
2:44
17
Kentucky Mean Paradise
2:39
18
Leave My Honey Bee Alone
2:55
19
I’m a Natural Born Gamblin’ Man
3:10
20
Get Along Blues
2:53
21
A Too Fast Past
2:57
22
Crazy Boogie
2:50
23
You Better Try Another Man
2:36
24
Deck of Cards
3:04
25
Wabash Cannon Ball
Merle Travis & Kay Starr
2:32
26
Blues Stay Away From Me
2:38
27
Philosophy
2:29
28
I Got a Mean Old Woman
3:06
CD 4: Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Vol. 4
1
I’m Picking Up the Pieces of My Heart
2:28
2
Petticoat Fever
2:52
3
Start Even
3:09
4
Guitar Rag
2:28
5
Cane Bottom Chair
2:46
6
I’m Knee Deep in Trouble
2:23
7
Little Miss Sherlock Holmes
2:15
8
Too Much Sugar for a Dime
Merle Travis, Georgia Brown & Judy Hayden
2:16
9
Spoonin’ Moon
Merle Travis, Georgia Brown & Judy Hayden
2:25
10
Trouble, Trouble
Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills
2:50
11
El Reno
Merle Travis, Georgia Brown, Judy Hayden & The Whippoorwills
2:38
12
Won’tcha Be My Baby
2:30
13
Dry Bread
2:38
14
Lost John Boogie
Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills
2:22
15
Deep South
Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills
2:08
16
Boogie in Minor
Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills
2:28
17
Let’s Settle Down (to Runnin’ Around Together)
Merle Travis & The Whippoorwills
2:24
18
Done Rovin’
2:24
19
Faithful Fool
2:30
20
Love Must Be Ketchin’
2:11
21
Kinfolks in Carolina
2:02
22
Kinfolks in Carolina
2:25
23
Rainy Day Feelin’
2:22
24
A Too Fast Past
2:38
25
Knee Deep in Trouble
2:38
26
Ain’t That a Cryin’ Shame
2:20
27
I’ll See You in My Dreams
1:55
28
Cannon Ball Rag
1:57
29
I’ll Have Myself a Ball
2:33
30
Bayou Baby (a Cajun Lullaby)
2:36
31
Green Cheese
2:53
CD 5: Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past, Vol. 5
1
Louisiana Boogie
2:45
2
Guitar Rag
2:22
3
Saturday Night Shuffle
2:22
4
The Waltz You Saved for Me
2:29
5
Crazy ’Bout You
2:24
6
Re‐Enlistment Blues
3:23
7
Dance of the Golden Rod
3:07
8
Gambler’s Guitar
2:38
9
Shut Up and Drink Your Beer
2:12
10
Seminole Drag
2:48
11
Jolie Fille (Pretty Girl)
2:04
12
I Can’t Afford the Coffee (I’m Tired of Drinkin’ Weak Tea Blues)
2:58
13
Blue Bell
2:21
14
Memphis Blues
2:37
15
The Sheik of Araby
2:05
16
On a Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Belle)
2:12
17
Black Diamond Blues
3:06
18
Blue Smoke (remake)
2:28
19
Walking the Strings
1:52
20
Saturday Night Shuffle
2:09
21
Sleepy Time Gal
2:39
22
Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old ’Tucky Home
2:31
23
Rockabye Rag
1:58
24
Bugle Call Rag
2:22
25
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine
2:32
26
Beer Barrel Polka
2:37
27
Turn My Picture Upside Down
2:31
28
If You Want It, I’ve Got It
2:45
29
Lazy River
2:26
30
Hunky Dory
2:33