Merle Travis - Singles Collection 1946-56Merle Travis was a significant personality and influential country music stylist as a singer, songwriter, and notably as a guitarist, to the extent that he had an instrumental technique named after him, called "Travis picking", which many musicians who came after him sought to emulate

Tomáš Víšek is one of the most significant Czech pianists of his generation

when he had all his Top 10 R&B hits

'Love Attack' and 'Pouring Water on a Drowning Man' before we get to 'Dark End of the Street'

ranging from baroque music to the present

1 hits with "The Wheel Of Fortune" in 1952 and "The Rock And Roll Waltz" in 1955

who hailed from Texas

The three-part cycle was unanimously praised by international reviews and received the International Classical Music Award 2017 as "Best Collection"

Big Bill Broonzy

plus some of the more obscure but no less important recordings that set the tone and led the way for later artists

and subsequently a hit-making solo artist on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s

and duet singles made by Mickey Baker with Kitty Noble as Mickey & Kitty for Atlantic

we can't say that any of these cantatas are hard to come by