Born on This Day in 1917, the Country Singer Who Pioneered a Brand-New Guitar Style and Sang About the Exploitation of Coal Miners

Merle Travis, who penned the timeless country hit “Sixteen Tons,” was born Nov. 29, 1917, in Rosewood, Kentucky.

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