Country Guitar Thunder

Joe Maphis, Merle Travis | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 31, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cmh Records
• ASIN: B0000010QK
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #291,828 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #40 in Music > Indie Music > Country > Western Swing

Track Listings

1. Ballad of Thunder Road/Theme from Bonanza

2. Nashville Jubilee

3. Lonesome Road Blues

4. Black Mountain Rag

5. Freight Train

6. Free Little Bird

7. Liberty

8. Little Rock Getaway

9. Flying Fingers

10. Mose Rager Blues

11. Wildwood Flower

12. Alabama Jubilee

13. John Henry

14. Li'l Liza Jane

15. Irish Washerwoman

16. Eight More Miles to Louisville

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT !!!!, August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Country Guitar Thunder (Audio CD)

If anyone likes guitar picking, this is one of the greatest with two of the finest pickers ever. I could put this one in and let it play for hours.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really fine . . ., January 21, 2005

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This review is from: Country Guitar Thunder (Audio CD)

From the rip-roaring hard-driving first cut, "Ballad of Thunder Road / Theme From Bonanza," to the last, sweetly rocking, upbeat "Eight More Miles to Louisville," this is one heck of an album. Many songs are a break-neck race to the finish ("Nashville Jubilee," "Liberty" and "Flying Fingers"), while others are pure graceful swinging, like "Lonesome Road Blues" and "Freight Train," which bring to mind the style of protégé Doc Watson.

Things slow down briefly for a heartbreaking duo version of "Mose Rager Blues." The set rounds out with a couple of old-timers, "John Henry" and "Irish Washerwoman," played as a theme and variations, first as a rollicking jig that segues into a joyous patch of syncopation and a tango-flavored interlude followed by an outburst of boogie-woogie and so on. Great fun.

Recorded in a variety of sessions, 1977 - 1981, in Nashville, Charlotte, and Albuquerque, these two masters of the guitar are joined sometimes by fiddle or piano and a drummer. Most often, it's just the two of them having the time of their lives. Really fine.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is great picking, January 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Country Guitar Thunder (Audio CD)

This cd is a great one and I am going to get it. I don't think there is any one that can pick a guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandelon or bass better than joe maphis. I am going to add this one to my collection.