2-finger picking

Doc Watson got this style from Merle Travis, after whom he named his son.







Reenlistment Blues was one of my most requested songs in my folksinging youth, right after my own Army career.

Merle Travis was a regular on a weekday all-afternoon TV country music show when I was growing up in So Cal. Sometimes mom would use the studio as a day care center while she shopped at a nearby Farmers Market, so I saw Travis many times live as a kid.