Singles Collection 1946-56

• Track Listing

He was a gifted songwriter and singer and a successful hit-maker, but Merle looms largest as one of the giants of country guitar (Chet Atkins would have been the first to tell you so). The majority of his prime Capitol A- and B-sides are here among 84 tracks: his hits "Cincinnati Lou," "No Vacancy," "Divorce Me C.O.D.," "Missouri," "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed," "Steel Guitar Rag," "Three Times Seven," "Fat Gal," "Merle’s Boogie Woogie," "Crazy Boogie," "What a Shame," his takes on "Lazy River," "Sioux City Sue," "Sixteen Tons," "Steel Guitar Rag" and more! Acrobat.