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Good Deal! Doc Watson in Nashville

Doc Watson

Album · 1968 · Vanguard SR 245

Good Deal! Doc Watson in Nashville was recorded in March 1968 at Columbia Recording Studio on 16th Avenue South in Nashville and released by Vanguard in November 1968 (VRS 9276 in mono, VSD 79276 in stereo). Doc Watson and his son Merle, who had been performing with him since 1964, were joined by Nashville studio players: Grady Martin on guitar and dobro, Don Stover on banjo, Tommy Jackson and Buddy Spicher on fiddle, Harold “Shot” Jackson on dobro, Junior Huskey on bass, Buddy Harman on drums and Floyd Cramer on piano.

The album has fourteen tracks. Songs credited to other writers include “Streamline Cannonball” (Roy Acuff), “Peach Picking Time in Georgia” (Jimmie Rodgers), “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes” (A.P. Carter), “Memphis Blues” (W.C. Handy and George A. Norton), “The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band” (Cliff Carlisle and Mel Foree) and “Step It Up and Go” (Blind Boy Fuller). Watson is credited as writer of “The Train That Carried My Girl from Town,” which he had already recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival in July 1963,, as well as of “Blackberry Rag.” Three tracks, “Alabama Jubilee,” “June Apple” and “Blackberry Rag,” are instrumentals.

Tracklist

  1. 1 Tom Dooley alt version 3:15
  2. 2 Alberta alt version 2:43
  3. 3 Froggie Went A-Courtin' 4:06
  4. 4 Beaumont Rag alt version 3:16
  5. 5 June Apple Source Recording Traditional · key A · 130 bpm 2:12
  6. 6 St. James Hospital 3:28
  7. 7 Muskrat alt version 2:52
  8. 8 Down to the River to Pray alt version 2:55
  9. 9 Blue Railroad Train - Vanguard Version 2:45
  10. 10 Rising Sun Blues 4:21
  11. 11 Shady Grove Source Recording Traditional · key Eb · 133 bpm 2:59
  12. 12 Blackberry Rag Source Recording R.W. Durden · key D · 128 bpm 2:40
  13. 13 My Rough And Rowdy Ways 2:32
  14. 14 Train that Carried My Girl From Town Source Recording Traditional · key D · 150 bpm 3:45
  15. 15 Black Mountain Rag alt version 2:40
  16. 16 I Was A Stranger 2:31
  17. 17 Blueridge Mountain Blues 2:30
  18. 18 Country Blues 3:30
  19. 19 Groundhog alt version 2:04
  20. 20 Little Orphan Girl alt version 3:15
  21. 21 Blackberry Blossom alt version 2:39
  22. 22 Going Down This Road Feeling Bad 2:14
  23. 23 Rambling Hobo 0:57
  24. 24 Omie Wise alt version 4:28
  25. 25 Handsome Molly alt version 2:03
  26. 26 White House Blues alt version 2:12
  27. 27 I Want To Love Him More 2:33
  28. 28 Way Downtown alt version 2:43
  29. 29 Streamline Cannonball Source Recording Roy Acuff · key E · 139 bpm 2:27
  30. 30 I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes alt version

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